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The boulder was part of a rockslide that crashed down on U.S. Highway 50 in the Sierra Nevada, blocking both lanes.

Travel through the Sierra Nevada overnight Friday was disrupted by a massive boulder that fell onto U.S. Highway 50 at Echo Summit.

Hundreds of homes burned as heavy winds fanned the flames on Thursday.

Close to a third of investors said in a recent survey that they want to practice socially responsible investing but have yet to employ the strategy.

The suspect in the Colorado supermarket shootings bought a firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check, and he also had a second weapon with him that he didn’t use in the attack that killed 10 people this week, authorities and the gun store owner said Friday. Investigators are working to determine the motive for the shooting,…

An employee of the Colorado supermarket where a gunman killed 10 people watched as the assailant opened fire and narrowly escaped his notice as she joined with others in a desperate scramble to get away.

The following is some of what we know so far about the lives and the loved ones of the 10 victims killed in the Colorado supermarket shooting. This article will be updated as more information is released: He “represents all things Love,” his daughter Erika Mahoney said in a poignant tweet that featured a wedding photo and drew wide attention…

There was a drop in gun violence during the pandemic, but with two large mass killings in a matter of days, many are concerned.

Police on Tuesday identified a 21-year-old man as the suspect in the killing of 10 people, including a Boulder police officer, at a Colorado supermarket. Authorities also identified nine victims after previously identifying the slain police officer as 51-year-old Eric Talley. The dead ranged in age from 20 to 65, said Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold. Their names were: Denny…

Officer Eric Talley, who was among the 10 people killed in a shooting at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, is being hailed as a hero by the law enforcement community and remembered by his family.

New England lawmakers were quick to condemn Monday’s supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado, which left 10 people dead, including a police officer. “I am horrified by the news coming out of Colorado,” Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said on Twitter. “I will continue to monitor the situation as I pray for the Boulder community and the families and friends…

Two teenage girls were with their dad, who was getting a COVID-19 vaccine, at the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder Monday afternoon when the shooting erupted, their grandfather, Steven, told NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver.

One of the victims was a police officer. Police responded to a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., on Monday. The suspect, a 21-year-old male, is in custody.

A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people Monday, including a police officer who was the first to respond to the scene, authorities said. Police arrested a suspect, but didn’t reveal his name or any details about the shooting at an evening news conference where Boulder police Chief Maris Herold fought back tears. Investigators had just begun sorting through…

Is Pluto a planet, as generations of schoolchildren learned? Or is it really a dwarf planet, as astronomy’s official governing body has determined? NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine says it’s the former. “Just so you know, in my view Pluto is a planet,” he told reporters Aug. 23 while touring an aerospace engineering lab in Boulder, Colorado. “It’s the way I...

University of San Diego sophomore Brooke Raboutou is the first ever American climber to qualify for the Olympics.

The group of white-haired folks — some pushing walkers, others using canes — arrive right on time at the gates of Laguna Woods Village, an upscale retirement community in the picturesque hills that frame this Southern California suburb a few miles from Disneyland.

The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (pronounced TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight. One billion miles beyond Pluto and an astounding 4 billion miles from Earth (1.6...

Before humans can colonize Mars, we’ll need to figure out a way to make it a bit more hospitable. But a new study suggests that “terraforming” Mars into an Earthlike planet simply isn’t possible with today’s technology, NBC News reported. The study, published July 30 in the journal Nature Astronomy, seems to throw cold water on those fictional terraforming schemes...

Police in Massachusetts say a married couple was killed when their car slammed into a boulder.