The Associated Press

A hiker saw the body in the water Tuesday. Rescue crews retrieved the body later that evening.

The remains of 36 marines were uncovered on the island of Betio in the central Pacific southeast of the Marshall Islands last month.

A wildfire sparked by lightning has burned just under 1 square mile in Dinosaur National Monument in northwestern Colorado.

Colorado theater shooter James Holmes told a psychiatrist months after the shooting that he was in jail because he “took the blood that wasn’t mine to take.”

KUSA-TV reports three fifth-grade students from Littleton won a national bid to have their experiment on the survival of lady bugs in space included on the unmanned supply rocket.

Wildlife officials are trying to catch a bear that’s been breaking into homes in Aspen.

The wasps target the eggs of emerald ash borer beetles, which have killed more than 50 million trees in 25 states.

The lightning hit around 11:30 a.m. on the popular 14,000-foot-plus mountain about 40 miles west of Denver.

Five Republican presidential hopefuls were in Denver Saturday talking to a group of conservative activists.

Last week, state Republican Chairman Steve House accused three other party members of telling him to resign or else face reports that he cheated on his wife.

Some used metal detectors to search a grid pattern marked by string tied to wood posts. A smaller group dug in mulch in a landscaped area.

Tsarnaev is eventually expected to go to the death row unit at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The tornado was about 50 yards wide and continued for nearly three miles.

Emergency vehicles were on the scene and the road was closed off.

Colorado health officials have recorded 11 human cases of tularemia, or “rabbit fever,” since May, putting the state on pace for one of the most widespread years for the disease […]

The Durango Herald reports that a coalition of conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday after the U.S. Forest Service gave the land swap the go-ahead in May.