1. The Denver Post reports that authorities are investigating whether a fire pit sparked the devastating ten-square-mile wildfire near Boulder. The wildfire that began Labor Day has cost nearly seven million dollars to fight and destroyed 169 homes.
1. A Christian minister in Florida is cancelling plans to burn copies of the Quran on September 11th. The plan drew criticism from President Barack Obama along with religious and political leaders across the Muslim world. 2. Strong winds are keeping
1. The FBI says investigators have found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight, in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror. All passengers were immediately interviewed once the plane landed and then released
CNN finally made it official today that British tabloid veteran Piers Morgan will be taking over for Larry King. In January, Morgan will take over the chair that King has occupied at CNN for the past 25 years. He says he came to CNN to win, and that
1. A top US commander in Afghanistan is calling on a Florida church to put a stop to a planned Quran burning. The church says it will burn the Islamic holy book (on) September 11th, but General David Petraeus says that will only endanger US troops ov
1. Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a boat. Engineers have lifted the damaged blowout preventer from beneath the sea and are gett
1. Hurricane Earl is getting closer. Residents in North Carolina have been doing last-minute preparations and getting out. The Category 3 storm with 125-mile-per-hour winds is expected to pass close to the Outer Banks overnight on its way to New Engl
1. Hurricane Earl now packs 145-mile-per-hour winds as it continues to churn towards the North Carolina coast. Forecasters are still trying to pinpoint exactly where and if Earl will make landfall. Hurricane warnings and watches have now been posted
1. North Carolina officials are ordering tourists and residents to leave a barrier island that is only accessible by ferry. Hurricane Earl was downgraded overnight. It is now a Category 3 storm with 125 miles per hour winds. Forecasters believe the s
1. Coastal communities up and down the Eastern Seaboard are taking a wait-and-see approach as Hurricane Earl continues to churn in the Atlantic. The storm has dumped inches of rain on some Caribbean islands, and forecasters say Puerto Rico could see
1. Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens will be arraigned in federal court in Washington today. The former pitcher is accused of lying to Congress about his alleged steroid use. Clemens has denied any wrongdoing. 2. The National Hurricane C
1. On this Labor Day, President Barack Obama travels to Milwaukee, talking up the American worker but saying powerful interests of Washington are talking down to him, saying they speak about him like a dog. Obama wants to spend big bucks fixing thing
1. Investigators in California have packed up a 28-foot section of a ruptured natural gas pipeline and shipped it off to Washington DC for analysis. The pipeline was blown out of the ground and hurled 100 feet during last week's explosion that killed
1. Fourteen US troops have been killed in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past three days. They include seven American service members who were killed today in two separate roadside bomb attacks. 2. Hurricane Earl is getting stronger, it's he
1. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama is calling the city of New Orleans a symbol of resilience and community. He told the crowd at Xavier University Sunday, his administration will stick with the Gulf Coast until t
1. New wildfire is burning in Colorado. Authorities say it has destroyed several homes. There are other homes nearby in the foothills, but the fire is moving slowly - something firefighters hope to use to get the blaze under control. 2. A plane carry
1. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Egypt for the second round in the latest Mideast peace efforts. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are set to meet at the summit. On Wednesday the summit shift
1. American Sarah Shroud says shes grateful to Iran's president and other officials for her release from a Tehran prison. Iran is still holding her two hiking companions. Shroud boarded a plane out of the country earlier Tuesday. 2. Warm, dry weather
1. It was a good night for Tea Party candidates in Delaware. Christine O'Donnell rode a surge of support from Tea Party activists to win the Republican Senate primary. She defeated nine-term Congressman Mike Castle. The winner in the general election
1. New foreclosure data shows lenders took back more homes in August than in any month since the start of the US mortgage crisis three years ago. Realty Trac says more than 95,000 homes were repossessed, that's a 25% increase from the same time last