Nation
August 24, 2018
Lahaina brush fire forces evacuations on Maui

Lahaina brush fire forces evacuations on Maui

A brushfire on Hawaii's island of Maui has forced the relocation of a shelter for people who were staying there as Hurricane Lane approaches.
Nation
August 24, 2018
Raw: Hurricane Lane soaks Hawaii's Big Island

Raw: Hurricane Lane soaks Hawaii's Big Island

Raw: Hurricane Lane soaks Hawaii's Big Island
August 23, 2018
FILE -- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill on June 5, 2018. The Education Department is considering whether to allow states to

Betsy DeVos considers allowing schools to use federal funds to buy guns

August 23, 2018
Katelyn Lunt, 6, stands by the packages of Barbies she ordered after they are delivered to her Utah home. MUST CREDIT: Photo courtesy of John Diyalou

Six-year-old ordered $350 worth of Barbies from Amazon, and there's a happy ending

Katelyn's mom called up an Amazon.com page on the family computer, and then walked out of the room.
Nation
August 23, 2018
Tibbett's accused killer makes court appearance

Tibbett's accused killer makes court appearance

A judge has ordered a man charged in the kidnapping and murder of an Iowa college student to be jailed on a $5 million cash-only bond.
August 21, 2018
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer and longtime fixer, leaves federal court, in New York, Aug. 21, 2018. The trials of both Cohen

Cohen pleads guilty, implicates Trump in hush-money scheme

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to fend off damage to his White House bid.
West Metro
August 21, 2018
United Airlines jets sit at a gate at Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this year.

Federal marshals cuffed, removed from MSP plane after flash of gun

Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan defended the airport officers' actions and spelled out in detail why they had no choice but to detain the men.
Business
August 21, 2018
In this July 27, 2018 photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration

More will die under Trump's coal deregulation plan, EPA says

President wants to roll back power plant rules, increasing pollution.
August 21, 2018
Emissions rise from the coal fired Santee Cooper Cross Generating Station power plant in Pineville, S.C., in March.

US plan for coal power deregulation could cause more deaths

The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to prop up the declining coal industry with an overhaul of Obama-era pollution rules, acknowledging that the increased emissions from aging coal-fired plants could kill hundreds more people annually and cost the country billions of dollars.
Local
August 21, 2018
PolyMet Mine in Hoyt Lakes, Minn. has been mired in a permitting battle for over eight years and the issue has become politicized in the state and par

Minnesota think tank joins debate on economics of mining

Will mining industry eclipse outdoor and recreation business in northern Minnesota? "If voters understand the huge benefit of mining, they will want to see it happen," Center of the American Experiment says.
Nation
August 21, 2018

A bunch of men got Tinder-pranked in New York

And a familiar culprit is involved.
Nation
August 21, 2018
Alligator kills woman trying to protect her dog

Alligator kills woman trying to protect her dog

A woman who often walked her dog near a golf course lagoon across the street from her vacation home was killed Monday by an alligator that dragged her into the greenish water at a private resort on the South Carolina coast.
August 20, 2018
Emissions rise from the coal fired Santee Cooper Cross Generating Station power plant in Pineville, S.C., in March.

Trump ready to ease rules on coal-fired power plants

The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Nation
August 20, 2018

Politics briefly

Nation
August 19, 2018
Dario Raffaelli, left, of Piza, Italy, photographs his wife, Paola Raffaelli, at Tunnel View as the Yosemite Valley reopens in Yosemite, Calif., on Tu

Ferguson fire now 100% contained

Nation
August 18, 2018

Jimmy Carter is still the man from Plains

The former president lives modestly in his Georgia hometown, a peanut and cotton farm town with a poverty rate of 40 percent.
Local
August 18, 2018
In this Monday Aug. 6, 2018 photo, a dead Snook is shown along the water's edge in Bradenton Beach, Fla. From Naples in Southwest Florida, about 135 m

Reeking red tide catches Minnesotans in Florida

Gulf Coast snowbirds hold their noses during southwest Florida's state of emergency.
Local
August 17, 2018

Richard Sipe, national expert on clergy sex abuse, dies at 85

The former monk from St. John's Abbey in Minnesota was one of the nation's foremost authorities on clergy sex abuse and a thorn in the side of the Catholic Church.
Inspired
August 17, 2018
Alo Key, the head custodian at Three Trails Elementary School in Independence, Mo., is a passionate singer and can often be found singing for students

Singing custodian hits the right note with kids at this elementary school

Alo Key has been head custodian for only a year. But he's been singing since childhood.
August 17, 2018
Miss North Dakota Cara Mund reacts after being named Miss America during Miss America 2018 pageant, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in Atlantic City, N.J.

Miss America: Leadership bullied, manipulated, silenced me

The reigning Miss America says she has been bullied, manipulated and silenced by the pageant's current leadership, including Gretchen Carlson.

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