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BEIJING — When does an eight become a perfect 10 for the world's most populous country? That long-anticipated blissful moment finally arrived Friday for China. At 8 p.m. on the 8th day of the 8th month of year 2008, the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Olympics masterfully blended the historic richness of the Silk Road and the modern vibrancy of ...

MERLIN, Ore. - A southern Oregon community long involved in battling wildfires was plunged into mourning with word that seven of the nine people killed in a Northern California helicopter crash were employees of a local company that has mustered contract firefighting crews since 1979. Grief-stricken Grayback Forestry crews were standing down and returning from fighting other fires for a break, ...

SHERMAN, Texas — A private charter bus careened off an overpass north of Dallas early Friday morning, killing at least 13 Vietnamese Catholics on their way to a church event.

At least 13 people were killed and at least 30 were injured early this morning when a private charter bus headed from Houston to Missouri crashed along northbound U.S. Highway 75 in Sherman, police said.

Part of Route 11 near Richville was closed Wednesday night after a serious accident involving a school bus and another vehicle.

Five Boone County firefighters assigned to battle wildfires in northern California are safe and accounted for after a helicopter crash Tuesday night that is feared to have killed eight firefighters and a pilot. Gale Blomenkamp, division chief with the Boone County Fire Protection District, said communication with the five Boone County firefighters is limited but he has received word they are ...

LANCASTER, S.C. - Officials were investigating a suspicious fire that gutted the prosecutor's office in this rural county Thursday, three days after an arsonist torched the historic courthouse just half a block away. Police warned jumpy residents in this city of 8,300 people to be on the lookout for a dangerous suspect who may be someone they know. Nobody was injured ...

MORGAN'S CORNER- Embers from a burn barrel sparked a house fire this afternoon. Shortly before 4 p.m., firefighters from Pasquotank-Newland and South Mills volunteer fire departments were called to a brush fire that had quickly spread to an abandoned house on the 1500 block of Millpond Road. It took about 20 minutes to contain the fire, said Pasquotank-Newland Chief Robbie Whitehead. ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. — A sport utility vehicle packed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over Thursday on a rural highway southwest of Phoenix, killing at least nine people, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Nineteen people wer

DENVER - Lawmakers warned Tuesday that it's only a question of time before a major wildfire strikes Colorado's beetle-ravaged trees on the Western Slope and they said the state isn't prepared. State forestry officials said less than half the communities in the state are prepared for a major wildfire after pine beetles destroyed 1.5 million acres of lodgepole pine. They said ...

LARRY DAVIS MEMORIAL SERVICE: A memorial service for Larry Davis will be held at 1100 hrs on Saturday, August 30, 2008, at the Island in the Son, United Methodist Church, 15602 Highway 361, Corpus Christi, Texas 78418. The family asks that in lieu of flo

SAN FRANCISCO - Fire raging through rugged, dense terrain was complicating efforts Thursday to recover victims and evidence from the remote part of a Northern California forest where a firefighting helicopter crashed. Nine people were presumed dead, but four others were rescued. The aircraft was carrying 11 firefighters and two pilots when it went down and was destroyed by fire Tuesday ...