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Firefighters are getting a better handle on the most destructive wildfire ever in Colorado, but they're still struggling against hot spots that could threaten homes that have been spared by the massive blaze.

New airborne laser scanning data has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating an entire bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex.

As gathering smoke from the Black Forest fire grew into a massive column north of Colorado Springs on Tuesday afternoon after the fire exploded, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa couldn't shake the feeling of deja vu.

General Motors is recalling almost 194,000 SUVs in the United States because an electronic module could short circuit, causing a fire.

There was a meeting on site at Lawrence Recycling this morning with Commanders to plan the way forward for the fire.

America's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for a world of glamour in her new role - and she can't wait.

With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church and shooting his father-in-law in the back of the head during Mass.

In this Tuesday, June 12, 2013 photo, released Saturday, June 15, 2013, by the U.S. Air Force, an American flag hangs in front of a burning structure in the Black Forest, a thickly wooded rural region north of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Restless residents displaced by Colorado's most destructive wildfire ever are returning to previously closed neighborhoods as firefighters continue to tame the blaze.

Authorities are placing the containment figure on the Black Forest fire at 45 percent, saying that evacuation orders will begin being slowly lifted.

Residents returning to the neighbourhoods they were driven from just days ago by Colorado's most destructive wildfire ever are seeing firsthand the path of destruction left behind by the flames.

A firefighter wearing a bee hood douses hot spots from a half-acre fire in Tujunga on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation orders for thousands of anxious residents in the most destructive blaze in state... Crews gained the upper hand on the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history Saturday and had more than half the blaze contained as ... (more)

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The American Red Cross has opened its office near downtown Indianapolis to take in people who've been evacuated from homes near a large building that's engulfed in flames.

By JENNIFER AGIESTA Associated Press A recent Associated Press-WE tv poll found more than 8 in 10 men said they have always wanted to be fathers or think they'd like to be one someday.

A Victoria Clipper returns to the dock after an engine fire, Friday, June 14, 2013 in Ballard, Wash.

Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation orders for thousands of anxious residents in the most destructive blaze in state... Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation ... (more)

Firefighters advanced against a monstrous wildfire outside of Colorado Springs, expanding containment lines and lifting evacuation orders for thousands of anxious residents in the most destructive blaze in state history, which has destroyed nearly 500 homes and killed two people.