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DENVER (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Officials have revealed details of plans to revitalize a 40-mile urban stretch of the South Platte River with plenty of water and healthy fish. Denver Water and Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said they've o...

CORTEZ, Colo. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A remote-operated cloud-seeding generator is being installed in the mountains above Dolores in an attempt to improve snowpack and runoff into McPhee Reservoir. Cloud seeders emit plumes of silver iodide i...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are trying to solve who set fire on a school playground, damaging tens of thousands of dollars of equipment. KMBC-TV (http://bit.ly/2c7uxtD) reports that equipment i...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A former Kansas kindergarten teacher has agreed to spend roughly six months in jail after having admitted she possessed drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop in which authorities say they also found c...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A southern Kansas judge has denied a man's push to withdraw his guilty plea for his alleged role in the 2014 killings of an elderly couple in Wichita. Sedgwick County District Judge Bruce Brown last week r...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Police in Wichita, Kansas, say a man is in custody after assaulting a police officer and firefighter at a building doubling as a police and fire station. Wichita police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow tells KSNW-TV (...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon is doubling down on his stance that Missouri is a "national leader in college affordability" in response to a recent state audit that found in-state and out-of-state s...

ST. LOUIS (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — The Missouri Department of Conservation plans mandatory inspection of deer killed in 29 counties during the opening weekend of the November firearms season as part of the effort to battle a deadly disease. T...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A hitchhiker who authorities say jumped into a car with two Ohio fugitives before one of them fatally shot a New Mexico police officer says he had no way of knowing that the two men were suspects in a k...

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Kentucky State Police say a teenager has been found unharmed in New Mexico two days after being reported missing. State police say in a news release that 15-year-old Jenna Oakley of Danville was located i...

TOHATCHI, N.M. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A Navajo father and daughter in northwest New Mexico were found dead after trying to rescue a family pet from a flooded arroyo. Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye expressed condolences in a statement S...

DALLAS (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Former Cleveland quarterback Johnny Manziel has re-enrolled at Texas A&M after his NFL career was derailed by a series of off-field incidents that included a domestic violence charge still pending in court. A s...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — The superintendent of a struggling South Texas school district has been suspended after he was arrested and accused of possessing marijuana. Premont school district Superintendent Eric Ramos was p...

KELLER, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A North Texas mother's efforts to get cameras installed in classrooms with special needs students for increased safety are finally coming to fruition. Breggett Rideau had been lobbying the Texas L...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Police in North Texas say a 20-year-old man has been arrested after being accused of fatally shooting one teenage girl and injuring another girl as the two students were walking home from school. K...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now support the movement c...

NEW YORK (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A once-prominent New York civil rights lawyer convicted of helping a terrorist client communicate with his followers is still battling the cancer that earned her compassionate release from prison over two y...

JENKINS, Ky. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Dina Branham remembers vividly the day when Mother Teresa came to visit her disabled daughter, Sabrina. "She got her up and prayed for her," Branham said. "She picked her up in her arms." Sabrina Branham, n...

GROTON, Conn. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Nygren and Heezen canyons aren't familiar natural wonders like the Grand Canyon, nor are Bear and Retriever seamounts the kinds of peaks that inspire throngs of sightseers, hikers and photographers to the sl...

BERLIN (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Europe's Rosetta space probe has located its lost Philae lander, wedged in a "dark crack" on a comet, the European Space Agency said Monday. Rosetta's camera finally captured images on Friday of the lander on c...

LOS ANGELES (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — In the course of a 17-year experiment on more than 1 million plants, scientists put future global warming to a real world test — growing California flowers and grasslands with extra heat, carbon dioxide and... Full story

CHICAGO (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Butterfly observers in Illinois are seeing a phenomenon this year that is playing out nationally: As the monarch starts its near-3,000-mile winter migration from Canada to Mexico, their observed numbers are extrem...

LONDON (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Queen guitarist Brian May says an asteroid in Jupiter's orbit has been named after the band's late frontman Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 70th birthday. May says the International Astronomical U...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — A client with crooked teeth can show up at an orthodontist's office at 9 a.m., get a high-tech exam and walk out the door 90 minutes later wearing a set of "invisible" plastic braces, known as a... Full story

ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Turning onto Interstate 95, a Boston-bound driver notices an odd-looking car moving in sync with traffic. But unlike the rest of the morning commute, the car appears to have no driver— just a pas...