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A half-inch to an inch of rain in about 30 minutes on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim was enough, on Saturday, to turn Bright Angel Canyon into a debris chute. The…
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Southwest Wisconsin has a measles problem that is no longer a rumor at the county fair. The outbreak in Grant, Lafayette, and Iowa counties has reached 92 confirmed…
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An ICE officer walked out of a Brownsville jail on Thursday, and the usually boring machinery of interstate extradition suddenly looked optional. Christian Castro,…
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Interstate extradition is supposed to be the dullest machinery in American law. On Thursday it produced a jailhouse release and a political shrug. Christian Castro,…
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North Texas spent the midweek learning how fast grass can run. The Ross Fire, sparked Monday afternoon near Palo Pinto, about 60 miles west of Fort Worth, grew from…
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Nevada decided the era of polite Colorado River bargaining is over. On Monday the state, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada, and the Southern Nevada Water…
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The Hawk Fire did not wait for anyone's calendar. A blaze that started Saturday in the Peavine Peak foothills of the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest exploded…
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The Hawk Fire did not wait for anyone to finish the weekend. Reported about 11:15 a.m. Saturday near Hawk Meadow Trail northwest of Reno, the human-caused blaze ran…
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A charter flight operated by Anchorage-based Security Aviation never made the gravel strip at Cape Newenham, a Cold War radar site 450 miles west of Anchorage that…
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Federal prosecutors say they stopped an ISIS-inspired plot against the New York State Capitol before anyone lit a fuse. Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany was charged…
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The FBI says it interrupted an ISIS-inspired plot against the New York State Capitol before anyone got near a live bomb. TIME reports that Jessica Bowie, 35, of…
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday to force the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro, who faces state charges…
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