US National Parks News

The National Park Service Southeast Region office in Atlanta announced Monday it has selected Pedro Ramos as the acting superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Brandon Cordill assigned to the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, tests the smoke system on his F/A-18 Hornet aircraft May 9, 2013, prior to launch for a proficiency training flight at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.

In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa.

A former official in the Los Angeles suburb of Bell has been convicted of corruption in a case that drove the blue-collar city to the brink of bankruptcy.

Jury selection gets underway Monday in the murder trial of a newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband to his death in Glacier National Park just days after their wedding.

An endangered Florida panther has been found dead of a suspected gunshot wound on federal land.

A Montana woman goes on trial for murder after pushing her newylwed husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park.

A new study says that violent dramas on the broadcast networks carry milder cautions than cable shows that are equal in gore.

Jury selection gets underway Monday in the murder trial of a newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband to his death in Glacier National Park just days after their wedding.

Paso por aqui . . . A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a massive sandstone bluff made El Morro a popular campsite.

Eleven more pilot whales were found dead in the lower Florida Keys on Sunday, believed to be from a pod of 51 that became stranded there last week, and authorities said chances were slim of finding the remaining whales alive.

It became a national park in 1962. With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.

The bride was having second thoughts eight days after the wedding, sparking an argument between the newlywed couple that carried from their Kalispell, Mont., home to a popular trail in Glacier National Park.

The bride was having second thoughts eight days after her wedding, and the couple took their argument to a trail in Montana's Glacier National Park.

Pearl Harbor survivors watch a vintage WWII airplane fly over Pearl Harbor at the ceremony commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in Honolulu.

Phillips Simkin, 69, a Philadelphia artist who created installations using his humor and off-the-wall artistic vision, died Tuesday, Nov. 26, of congestive heart failure at his home.

A pod of pilot whales swims off the coast of Everglades National Park in Florida.

Due to the continued very high fire danger and current level of fire activity in the State of Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep National Monuments.

A WINTER STORM WATCH has been issued for Central Maryland. Snow, sleet and freezing rain will be impacting Maryland Sunday starting in the mid to late morning and continuing through the day before turning over to rain Sunday night into Monday.

American survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many of them in their 90s, will gather on Saturday near Honolulu to mark the anniversary of the attack in 1941 that took the lives of more than two thousand of their peers and thrust the United States into World War II.