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This photo taken on Monday, June 17, 2013 shows the Marina Bay Sands hotel and the Supertrees at Gardens By The Bay covered in haze. The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore’s main measure to determine air quality, crept into the “unhealthy” classification Monday as smoke from roaring blazes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island drifted across the sea and cast a gray pall over the city-state’s skyscrapers. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Singapore fumes as air pollution hits 16-year high

Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years. Singapore's main measurement of air quality has hovered in the ...

  • Updated: 10:17 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 photo, an Indian child in a pink shirt undergoes treatment for encephalitis at a hospital in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh state, India. Encephalitis is sweeping through northern India, killing at least 118 children in what officials worry could become the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. (AP Photo/Biswajeet Banerjee)

Especially grim encephalitis toll feared in India

A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. Encephalitis has killed at least 118 children so far this year and authorities fear the death toll ...

  • Updated: 8:49 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Ark. officials confirm avian flu in Scott Co. bird

A chicken in Scott County is confirmed with avian influenza and state officials have quarantined poultry within a 6.2-mile radius around the infected bird's farm. The Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission said Wednesday that the chicken tested positive for H7N7 low pathogenic avian influenza. The agency is coordinating its response ...

  • Updated: 7:59 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT

DNR warns of swimmer's itch in N. Iowa lake DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources is warning people that a condition called swimmer's itch is being seen at northern Iowa's Crystal Lake. The condition usually is harmless but can cause welts and itching for several days. ...

  • Updated: 6:01 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles

Federal investigators say someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds. The partly decomposed eagles were found April 11 about ...

  • Updated: 4:48 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Appeals court: BLM must story more grazing plans

The Bureau of Land Management must consider a wider range of grazing alternatives, including some that provide more protections for public land, when it reviews permits in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Western Watersheds Project, which brought the lawsuit ...

  • Updated: 11:23 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Recent Kansas editorials

The Wichita Eagle, June 16 Failure to deliver at DMV Renewing a driver's license shouldn't take multiple attempts and a wait of three, four or five hours. That it does for many people in the Wichita area these days is a failure to deliver one of the most basic of ...

  • Updated: 8:31 a.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Lara Stern, right, holds her daughter, Alana, 8, and husband Samuel Stern on Sunday, June 16, 2013 during a community prayer and praise worship service at First Baptist Church near Colorado Springs, Colo. The Stern family and at least ten other families at the church lost their homes to the Black Forest wildfire. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Mark Reis)

Investigators 'zeroing in' on Colo. wildfire start

Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park. Investigators believed Colorado's Black Forest Fire was human-caused, and were going through the charred remains of luxury homes destroyed and damaged in ...

  • Updated: 9:39 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Rabid bat found in Hall County home

A rabies alert has been issued in part of Hall County after a rabid bat was found inside of a house in Gainesville. The Gainesville Times reports (http://bit.ly/12QNHed ) the bat was found in a house Friday and has been shipped to the virology section of the Georgia Public Health ...

  • Updated: 6:28 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Wis. communities seek money to pay for water tests

Cities and counties in Wisconsin are looking for ways to pay for water tests that could lead to beach closures after the federal government proposed eliminating the funding for the tests. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been spending about $10 million per year water testing to support a 2000 ...

  • Updated: 11:58 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
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