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Montana man dies in Yosemite climbing accident

A Montana man died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, authorities said. Mason Robison, 38, was killed after a rock dislodged and severed his rope as he and a partner were about 2,300 feet above the ...

  • Updated: 9:40 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie speaks at the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems in Honolulu on Monday, May 20, 2013. Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)

Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference

Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise. Roughly ...

  • Updated: 8:55 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Today In History

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2013. There are 217 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1674 - Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France. 1863 - The first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the ...

  • Updated: 8:33 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2012 file photo, San Jose State players, including linebacker Brad Kuh (33), defensive end Sean Bacon (95) and running back Ray Rodriguez (46), celebrate a 29-20 win over Bowling Green in the NCAA college football Military Bowl, in Washington. The Military Bowl is headed to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. The DC Bowl Committee and Events DC announced Monday that this year's game will be moved from RFK Stadium in Washington to the venue that is home to the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen. The Dec. 27 game presented by Northrop Grumman to benefit the USO will be the sixth annual Military Bowl. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

Military Bowl moving from DC to Annapolis

Military Bowl organizers announced Monday that the game will move this year from Washington's RFK Stadium to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, placing the sixth annual game in a setting designed to honor service members about 30 miles from the nation's capital. Steve Beck, DC Bowl Committee president and ...

  • Updated: 8:31 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
FILE - In this Friday, May 17, 2013 file photo provided by the Alaskan Volcano Observatory, the Pavlof Volcano erupts as it's seen from the air near Cold Bay, Alaska. The volcano's eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash, according to reports Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Alaskan Volcano Observatory, Theo Chesley, File)

Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations

An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash. Pavlof Volcano released ash plumes as high as 22,000 feet over the weekend, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Clouds obscured the volcano Monday, but U.S. Geological ...

  • Updated: 7:36 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
FILE - This March 4, 2004 file photo shows a Santa Cruz Island fox bred in captivity being held by a wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park, Calif. More than a thousand tiny island foxes live free on the largest of the Channel Islands off the Southern California coastline where less than a decade ago only a few dozen remained. The rapid turnaround in the population of the fox native to this island, which is also a national park, comes after years of intense intervention from biologists who toiled to stop an unnatural ecological cycle that involved three different species. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Rare island fox rebounds on California islands

A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday. The population of the fox dropped to an all-time low of just 70 animals on Santa Cruz Island in ...

  • Updated: 7:29 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2012 file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center, fields questions from reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. "This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who offered the amendment by Hatch, who was absent Monday. "Implementing this biometric exit system is long overdue." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports

Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week. In a long day of drafting, the panel voted to begin phasing in a requirement for foreigners to undergo fingerprinting ...

  • Updated: 6:23 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policy

Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials. The report released by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General found that park ...

  • Updated: 3:28 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Poll: Sandy won't alter Jersey Shore travel plans

A new survey finds Superstorm Sandy has not altered the travel plans of most regular visitors to the Jersey Shore. The poll released Monday by the AAA Clubs of New Jersey found 79 percent said the devastating storm hasn't altered their summer travel plans Two-thirds of respondents consider themselves to ...

  • Updated: 3:11 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Group plans black Civil War veteran memorial

Soldiers in Hagerstown were among the first black men in Maryland to join the ranks of the Union during the Civil War, and were involved in the siege of Petersburg, Va., during the conflict. Among the first local blacks who joined the Union were members of Moxley's Band, a Hagerstown-based ...

  • Updated: 1:29 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
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