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Matt Cooper and his kids Anna, Nathan and Matthew prepare to drill a hole for a geothermal heat pump installation Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, in Hamilton, Colo. (AP PhotoBrittany Peterson)

In Colorado town built on coal, some families are moving on, even as Trump tries to boost industry

December 8, 2025 at 11:24 a.m.

The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens, and two of the three ran monster-sized drills at the...

This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company’s Titan submersible. The wrecks of the Titanic and the Titan sit on the ocean floor, separated by 1,600 feet (490 meters) and 111 years of history. How they came together unfolded over an intense week that raised temporary hopes and left lingering questions. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)

After the Titan implosion, the U.S. Coast Guard wants to improve the safety of submersibles

June 26, 2023 at 5:25 p.m.

An international group of agencies is investigating what may have caused a submersible to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage.

This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday, June 20, 2023, for the submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP)

What caused the Titan to implode? Right now, it抖阴ap not even clear who will lead the investigation

June 23, 2023 at 1:34 p.m.

A day after revelations that the Titan submersible imploded, officials are searching the ocean floor for evidence and determining who will be responsible for investigating the international disaster.

City workers remove garbage floating on the Negro River, which has a rising water level due to rain, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, June 6, 2022. More than 2,000 experts plan to wrap up early negotiations Friday, Dec. 2, on plastic pollution at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address the crisis. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Negotiations begin for a global treaty on plastic pollution

December 2, 2022 at 10:40 a.m.

On Friday afternoon more than 2,000 experts will wrap up a week of negotiations on plastic pollution at one of the largest global gatherings ever to address what even industry...

Olympic champ Jepchirchir wins 50th women’s Boston Marathon

April 18, 2022 at 2:52 p.m.

BOSTON (AP) — Reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir capped the celebration of a half-century of women in the Boston Marathon with a finish to top them all.

FILE – The first boxes of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are loaded into a truck for shipment from the McKesson facility in Shepherdsville, Ky., Monday, March 1, 2021. As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, Pool, File)

As vaccine demand falls, states are left with huge stockpile

March 3, 2022 at 12:50 p.m.

As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the...

Framed by the Manhattan skyline electricians with IBEW Local 3 install solar panels on top of the Terminal B garage at LaGuardia Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. As climate change pushes states in the U.S. to dramatically cut their use of fossil fuels, many are coming to the conclusion that solar, wind and other renewable power sources won’t be enough to keep the lights on. Nuclear power is emerging as an answer to fill the gap as states transition away from coal, oil and natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of a warming planet. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Majority of U.S. states pursue nuclear power for emission cuts

January 18, 2022 at 3:26 p.m.

As climate change pushes states in the U.S. to dramatically cut their use of fossil fuels, many are coming to the conclusion that solar, wind and other renewable power sources...

FILE – Registered nurse Sara Nystrom, ...

Hospitals in Colorado, across the U.S. letting COVID-infected staff members stay on the job

January 10, 2022 at 5:02 p.m.

Hospitals around the U.S. 鈥� including some in Colorado 鈥� are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the...

Sports betting’s rapid expansion faces more tests in 2020

December 18, 2019 at 3:25 p.m.

Sports wagers can be made legally in 13 states, while sportsbooks have been legalized in another half-dozen -- including Colorado 鈥� where they're not yet running.

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B-17 crash raises questions about vintage plane safety

October 4, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.

The roar of its four engines, the plexiglass nose, the bristling machine guns -- for history buffs and aviation enthusiasts, few thrills compare with that of a flight aboard aircraft...

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