Topic: The Associated Press
At many state parks, toll of budget crisis is seen in crumbling roads, deteriorating restroomsAt state parks across the nation, this is the toll of the deepening budget crisis and years of financial neglect: crumbling roads, faltering roofs, deteriorating restrooms.Electrical and sewer ...
On September 28, 1924, crowds cheered and sirens shrieked as the Army Service pilots known as " The four ships?the Seattle, the Chicago, the Boston, and the New Orleans?were specially built by the Douglas Aircraft Company. The Seattle crashed in the fog ...
Is the old man about to get out of his chair and give us a worldwide show?From Associated Press: "CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ? Scientists are closely monitoring more than250 small earthquakes that have occurred in Yellowstone National Parksince Friday. But Robert Smith, ...
After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France.Baby Khroma, one of the oldest intact mammoths ever found, went on display in a French museum Friday — after it ...
About 1.2 million Graco Harmony high chairs are being recalled because they pose a fall hazard, says the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.. The agency said screws holding the front legs of the chair can loosen and fall out, and cracking plastic ...
Mexican gangs take over US public lands for pot, smuggle immigrants to grow crops Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants ...
Ukrainian museum says portrait of Venetian Doge in its collection is Titian's workThe director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that art ...
NC Museum of Art 'tunnels' through to new building, uses unusual elements to move worksThe North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is on the move. And it's taking about 750 works of art with it.The museum is in the process of ...
Gettysburg park chief being transferred because he used work computer to view sexual imagesThe superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park told a newspaper he is being reassigned because U.S. Interior Department investigators discovered that he used his federal computer to view sexually ...
Vietnam memorial fund takes over care of 13 acres of weed-infested National MallFrustrated with poor maintenance by the federal government, the group that built the Vietnam War memorial is aiming to improve its little corner of the National Mall by taking over ...
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