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• Colorado jury awards $15M for slipping on ice

  November 9, 2010 10:13 AM

  GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado jury has awarded $15 million to a truck driver who said she slipped and fell on ice and grease while making a delivery to a Wal-Mart in Greeley. Wal-Mart tells the Greeley Tribune that it's considering appealing the award for Holly Averyt, 41,... more »

• Wyoming football player killed in Colorado crash

  September 7, 2010 8:36 AM

  Authorities say a pickup drifted off a Colorado highway and crashed, killing a University of Wyoming football player and injuring three teammates. The Colorado State Patrol says Ruben Narcisse, 19, of Miami was killed in the crash early Monday. Trey Fox, 19, of Glenwood Springs, Christian Morgan,18, of Aurora,... more »

• Home sales plunge 27 percent to lowest in 15 years

  August 24, 2010 10:27 AM

  Sales of previously occupied homes fell to the lowest level in 15 years last month as the economy weakened. The National Association of Realtors says July's sales fell by more than 27 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million. It was the largest monthly drop on... more »

• Climbers hit by lightning in Grand Teton National Park

  July 22, 2010 8:14 AM

  Crews on the ground and in the air resumeed the search at daybreak for a climber missing in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Rescue teams on Wednesday used helicopters to remove 16 other injured climbers in three climbing parties from the exposed mountain after a thunderstorm and lightning struck... more »

• 2009 charitable giving falls in US

  June 9, 2010 8:50 AM

  Even though a new report says charitable giving fell by 3.6 percent last year, some philanthropic experts are breathing a sigh of relief. They feared the decline would be much worse as Americans continued to struggle with the recession. The Giving USA Foundation says Americans donated almost $304 billion... more »

• Home prices drop .5 percent from February to March

  May 25, 2010 9:06 AM

  Home prices fell in March from the previous month, signaling that temporary tax credits for buyers weren't enough to buoy the housing market. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index released Tuesday posted a 0.5 percent drop from February. Prices in 13 of the 20 cities tracked by... more »

• April consumer spending falls from March

  May 13, 2010 8:36 AM

  New figures show Americans pulled back from the malls in April after spending more rapidly in March. The lull comes on the heels of three straight month-to-month gains in retail spending, according to figures released by MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse. April's business was hurt by cool weather as well as... more »

• Friend: Climber clawed edge of crater before fall

  February 16, 2010 4:36 PM

  A friend of the climber who fell 1,500 feet into the dormant crater of Mount St. Helens says he saw his friend clawing to hang onto the edge before disappearing. Scott Salkovics told KGW Tuesday that he and his friend, Joseph Bohlig, had reached the crater at Mount St.... more »

• Rescuers struggle to reach man in Mount St. Helens

  February 16, 2010 3:11 PM

  Observers in helicopters say they aren't seeing any movement from a man who fell 1,500 feet into the crater of Mount St. Helens in Washington. Rescuers have been trying to reach him, but weather conditions have made it impossible so far. Two attempts to reach Joseph Bohlig by helicopter... more »

• Part of plane falls from the sky

  February 5, 2010 1:55 PM

  A piece of a cargo plane fell from the sky and landed in a mall parking lot in Miami. No one was injured when the large panel fell from a Boeing 747 atlas cargo plane. The parking lot was mostly empty when the piece fell. No vehicles or structures... more »

• Oregon man sues over tree that fell and hurt him

  February 2, 2010 6:03 PM

  An Oregon man has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service and a logging company on allegations that they failed to cut down a tree before it fell and injured him. The suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Medford says Bert Fernandez of Prospect was driving... more »

• Colorado Springs firefighter injured

  January 13, 2010 2:17 PM

  A Colorado Springs firefighter is going to be OK after sliding 80 feet at Helen Hunt Falls. Initial reports indicated that the firefighter was seriously injured in a fall. The firefighter had been participating in a training exercise. Rescue crews have transported him to a local hospital, where... more »

• Girl, 4, reunited with dog rescued from well

  October 20, 2009 1:03 PM

  In the quiet little town of Olar, S.C. (population: 250), it's the feel-good story of the year: Olivia Hartzog, age 4, was reunited with her beloved pet Mollie after the poor pooch was trapped overnight 33 feet down an abandoned well on the family property. Olivia hugged her pet... more »

• Worker dies in Philly after 125-foot fall

  October 12, 2009 4:47 PM

  Authorities say a construction worker has died after falling 125 feet when a tall construction lift toppled over and struck a downtown Philadelphia apartment building. Investigators want to know if the 40-year-old victim was properly strapped into the bucket of the boom lift as he worked on a church roof.... more »

• Sink hole swallows fire truck

  September 8, 2009 2:00 PM

  Four Los Angeles firefighters have escaped unharmed from their fire engine, after it fell into a large sinkhole in the San Fernando Valley. Officials say the firefighters were responding to a call about flooding on a residential street when they saw excessive water on the road. Worried that the ground... more »

• Rescue at Garden of the Gods

  August 31, 2009 12:59 AM

  A man was been rescued from a rock formation at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs Sunday night. It's unclear why the 18 year old was climbing at night. He had to be brought down by crews on a stretcher. The man was flown to a local hospital by... more »