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KIMBERLEY, British Columbia – Four people died Wednesday in an accident at a Teck Cominco‘s decommissioned mine in southeastern British Columbia. Details were not clear, but David Parker, director of communications and sustainability for the mining giant, confirmed the dead included a Teck employee, an outside consultant contracted to work …

LITTLETON, Colo. – Officials at a suburban Denver hospital were alerting brain surgery patients after another patient died of a rare degenerative brain ailment called classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the hospital said Thursday. Six people who had neurosurgery at Littleton Adventist Hospital after an operation on the Creutzfeldt-Jakob patient and were …

LUZERNE, Mich. – A wildfire had charred about 6,000 acres of northern Michigan forest Tuesday, damaging more than a dozen buildings and forcing residents to flee rural homes. The blaze, mostly in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, was more than 90 percent contained Tuesday morning, said Catherine Salm, spokeswoman for the …