One of the men killed at the Revenue-Virginius mine in Ouray, Colo., on Sunday was trying to find the other miner who died.
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NSA Releases Some Files On Electronic Surveillance
Reporters on the national security beat are sifting through about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the National Security Agency released late Monday.
MAVEN Lifts Off On Nearly Half-Billion-Mile Trip To Mars
NASA’s MAVEN explorer blasted off Monday on the first leg of its 440-million-mile journey to Mars, where scientists hope it will answer an ancient question: why the red planet went from warm and wet to cold and dry in a matter of just a billion years.
First Fuel Rods Plucked From Tsunami-Damaged Fukushima Plant
Workers at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station successfully completed the first day of a delicate operation to remove radioactive fuel rods from a reactor damaged in the March 2011 tsunami.
LNG pipeline plan suggests state ownership stake
The Department of Natural Resources has released a roadmap for getting a natural gas pipeline built, and it involves taking on a multi-billion-dollar ownership stake in the project.
Ketchikan official proposes selling dam
A Ketchikan official wants to sell a dam project under development.