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U of Minn. administration gets passing grades MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A highly anticipated report gives the University of Minnesota administration passing grades but also shows areas that could be streamlined. Consultants found staffing levels within four of the university's administrative offices are "within a broad range of responding peers." But ...

  • Updated: 10:01 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Black Forest Fire Dept. officers burn off natural ground fuel in an evacuated neighborhood, prepping the area for the encroachment of the wildfire in the Black Forest area north of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The number of houses destroyed by the Black Forest fire could grow to around 100, and authorities fear it's possible that some people who stayed behind might have died. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

2 found dead in area burned by Colo. wildfire

A voracious wildfire driven in all directions by shifting winds has killed two people and destroyed at least 360 homes — a number that was likely to climb as the most destructive blaze in Colorado history burned for a third day through miles of tinder-dry woods, a sheriff said Thursday. ...

  • Updated: 8:15 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
In this June 7, 2013 photo, people push a boat into Lake Nicaragua, near Granada, Nicaragua. A multi-billion dollar Chinese plan to plow a massive rival to the Panama Canal across the middle of Nicaragua was headed for approval by the leftist-controlled National Assembly Thursday, June 13, 2013, capping a lightning-fast approval process that has provoked deep skepticism among shipping experts and intense concern among environmentalists. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Nicaragua approves massive canal project

A proposal to build a massive rival to the Panama Canal across the middle of Nicaragua was overwhelmingly backed by lawmakers Thursday, capping a lightning-fast approval process that has provoked deep skepticism among shipping experts and concern among environmentalists. The National Assembly dominated by President Daniel Ortega's leftist Sandinista Front ...

  • Updated: 7:46 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013

Report: Forests on Indian reservations underfunded

Forests held in trust for Indian tribes across the nation are woefully underfunded by the federal government, according to a report issued Thursday by a panel of experts. The congressionally mandated report for the Intertribal Timber Council was released at the group's annual meeting on the Menominee Indian Reservation in ...

  • Updated: 7:35 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
A field of flowering Ranger russet potato plants is pictured near Wilder, Idaho, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. In a lawsuit moved to Idaho federal court this week, a U.S. wholesale grocery cooperative has sued the United Potato Growers of America, alleging the group's members in 15 states are illegally fixing prices and driving up costs. (AP Photo/John Miller)

Grocers allege potato group pumped up spud prices

A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow. Associated Wholesale Grocers' lawsuit ...

  • Updated: 6:51 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013

Pence officials win clearance from ethics panel

The Indiana State Ethics Commission cleared a pair of Pence administration officials Thursday to take new jobs at Purdue University and an Indianapolis law firm. The panel voted unanimously Thursday morning in favor of Pence policy director Marilee Springer's return to Ice Miller and transportation commissioner Michael Cline's departure to ...

  • Updated: 5:29 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
European Commissioner for Energy Guenther Oettinger addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The European Commission is proposing tougher nuclear safety rules, amid international debate about the future of nuclear energy and how to secure aging plants. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

EU presents post-Fukushima nuclear safety rules

The European Commission proposed tougher nuclear safety rules Thursday, amid international debate about the future of nuclear energy and how to secure aging plants. Stress tests on European nuclear plants prompted by the 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant showed that almost all of them needed safety improvements. A ...

  • Updated: 10:51 a.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
Demonstrators pose with their banners for the media as they take part in an anti-tar sands protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London, timed to coincide with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressing the British Parliament ahead of the G-8 summit, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Harper is the first sitting Canadian prime minister to formally address the British Parliament since the Second World War, when William Lyon Mackenzie King spoke in Westminster's Royal Gallery only weeks before D-Day. Harper thanked British Prime Minister David Cameron for his "robust advocacy" on behalf of a free-trade pact between Canada and the European Union during his address Thursday in London to British lawmakers. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Activists targeting Canada's Harper arrested in UK

British police have arrested several environmental activists who allegedly breached Parliament security to protest Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit. The activists, who campaign against using oil from Canada's tar sands, say they entered the Parliament building and climbed onto its roof to protest as Harper visited to deliver a ...

  • Updated: 10:25 a.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013

KC hospital gets $200K EPA grant

A Kansas City hospital has been awarded a $200,000 federal grant to teach health care students about environmental hazards that can affect children in their homes. The Environmental Protection Agency says Children's Mercy Hospital is getting the money to fund its Environmental Education for Health Care Initiative. The project will ...

  • Updated: 5:03 a.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
A slurry bomber flies over homes as it prepares to drop fire retardant on the Black Forest Fire in northeast of Colorado Springs on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The fire consumed an estimated 7500 acres. It damaged 40-60 structures and forced the evacuation of thousands of people. As of Tuesday night the fire was reported as zero percent contained. (AP Photo/BryanOller)

3 wildfires burn out of control in Colorado

A wildfire fueled by hot temperatures, gusty winds and thick, bone-dry forests has destroyed 92 homes, damaged five more and prompted more than 7,000 residents northeast of Colorado Springs to flee, sheriff's officials said Wednesday. A separate Colorado wildfire to the south has destroyed 20 structures, including some in Royal ...

  • Updated: 2:11 a.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013
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