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Crews make progress fighting Southern California wildfire

Firefighters made significant progress trying to tamp down a wildfire that threatened homes and has been raging for days south of Los Angeles, officials said Saturday.

Navajo robotics team from Utah ready for global contest

A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition.

Utah man says he killed city worker over yard rule ‘harassment’

A Utah man who shot and killed a city worker, torched her truck and set his neighbor’s house on fire told witnesses that he did it after “years of harassment” over laws requiring cleanup of trash and weeds outside his home, police said Friday.

 
Death Valley worker has seen some of Earth’s highest, lowest temps

Terry Eddington, a National Park Service custodian who is about halfway through what may be Death Valley’s hottest summer ever, previously experienced some of the planet’s lowest temperatures during five winters in Antarctica.

Bodies won’t be recovered in Alaska plane crash, officials say

A small airplane that crashed in Alaska’s Denali National Park, killing five people on board, will remain on a near-vertical mountainside because of the substantial risk to recovery crews, officials said Friday.

Grand Canyon rafting plan, with higher fees, canceled

The National Park Service has canceled a contract proposal to run commercial river trips in the Grand Canyon after backlash over higher franchise fees.

Police charge man in Canada shooting that left 4 dead

Canadian police have charged a man for the deaths of two police officers and two civilians in a shooting that struck a nerve in a country that has been roiled in recent months by several instances of mass violence.

 
Man who stole, crashed plane near Seattle identified

The man who stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport was Richard Russell, a U.S. official briefed on the matter told The Associated Press.