DENVER – An Environmental Protection Agency official says she doesn’t believe wildlife will suffer significant health impacts from the large volume of wastewater that spilled from an abandoned mine in southwestern Colorado. The EPA also said Sunday the amount of wastewater that spilled from Colorado’s Gold King Mine into the …
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YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Authorities say frozen meat and a chain saw were the only things taken during a break-in a home in Michigan. The Ann Arbor News reports (http://bit.ly/1LPfq1k ) deputies with the Washtenaw County sheriff’s department were called Thursday to the home in Ypsilanti Township following the theft, …
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PHILADELPHIA – Tickets will be available online Tuesday for a Pope Francis event at the Independence Mall in Philadelphia. The pope will be giving a speech on immigration and religious freedom in front of Independence Hall on Sept. 26. Officials say 10,000 tickets for that event will be available beginning …
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CHICAGO – A federal judge has approved a request from Jesse Jackson Jr. for a four-day furlough from home detention in Baltimore to attend his grandmother’s funeral in Greenville, South Carolina. The Chicago Tribune reports (http://trib.in/1Ofnwmn ) that the furlough will start Friday. Helen Burns Jackson died Monday at age …
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Authorities say a couple looking for a scenic spot to take a photo found an injured Utah woman who was trapped inside her wrecked vehicle for two days in a secluded part of a canyon. Utah County sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon tells the Daily Herald newspaper in Provo that the …
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ANACONDA, MT: One of two violent fugitives has been caught and another is still on the run. Both are former members of the U.S. military, with one suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on a Montana bar and the other allegedly against his three young children. Michael Paul Brown, …
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At least six bodies have been found after a “dairy accident” on the Colorado plains. Southeast Weld Fire Protection District officials said crews were dispatched to a “confined space” rescue, where the bodies were found on Wednesday. The Weld County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital the incident does not …
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It started like something out of a sci-fi thriller: a glowing, pill-shaped object hovering over the skies of upstate New York. Photos captured near the Finger Lakes on Aug. 12 showed a slow-moving orb shrouded in a glowing mist, sparking a surge of UFO speculation in a community’s Facebook group. …
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A girls’ trip to a remote cabin in Kentucky nearly ended in tragedy when two women in their 80s took a soak in a hot tub and could not get themselves out of the heated water, rescuers said on Friday. The group was enjoying a dip in the hot tub …
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Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday that 27 people were arrested in Franklin, New Hampshire, in a sweeping narcotics bust that seized fentanyl and methamphetamine tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Investigators said the supply chain traced back through Lawrence, Massachusetts, a city long identified as a fentanyl …
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