The election season is in full swing Friday as Virginia becomes the first state to allow in-person early voting in the 2024 cycle and six other states – Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming – make absentee ballots available, some with restrictions. Minnesota and Virginia lean blue, but have deep red pockets Two competitive states begin voting …
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A 60-year-old hiker was burned by scalding water while walking off-trail in a thermal area at Yellowstone National Park on Monday, injuries which required her being airlifted to hospital by helicopter, the National Park Service (NPS) has announced. The woman, from New Hampshire, was walking off-trail in the afternoon with her husband and leashed dog near Mallard Lake Trailhead at …
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The geyser Old Faithful was first documented and named on this day in history, Sept. 18, 1870, by the explorer Nathanial Langford. Langford, who was exploring Yellowstone Park as part of the Washburn-Doane-Langford expedition, wrote in his journal that he had spotted a geyser that erupted quite frequently. “It spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay, the columns …
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FIRST ON FOX: Gabby Petito attempted to soothe Brian Laundrie in a previously unseen letter released this week by the FBI, telling him to “stop crying” in an apparent attempt to make amends over an unknown issue. The pages appeared to have been written before the couple left on their ill-fated road trip and referenced coming “back from NY.” “Brian, …
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A mountain pass road near the popular tourist destination of Jackson, Wyoming, collapsed Saturday after a landslide, adding at least an hour of travel time for those who drive on the roadway. The roadway at milepost 12.8 on Teton Pass “catastrophically failed,” severing a large chunk of the winding road, and will remain closed as officials plan how to repair …
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An 83-year-old woman has been seriously injured in Yellowstone National Park after being gored by a bison that was “defending its space,” park officials say. The tourist from Greenville, South Carolina, was targeted by the bison on June 1 near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming, according to the National Park Service. “The bison, defending its space, …
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A disabled veteran Army reservist this week described a harrowing grizzly bear attack he survived by playing dead and holding onto his can of bear spray. Shayne Patrick Burke, 35, called the attack by the mama grizzly last Sunday the “most violent thing I have ever experienced.” He added in an Instagram post: “I’ve experienced being shot at, mortared and …
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Communist North Korea has no rightful place in Wyoming, the state’s Republican secretary of state said following the discovery of three business entities with ties to the hermit nation. “The communist, authoritarian Kim Jong Un regime has no place in Wyoming,” Secretary of State Chuck Gray said in a statement this week. “Our office worked quickly and expeditiously to begin …
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A grizzly that accidentally inflicted itself with a burst of pepper spray while attacking a hiker in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park won’t be captured or killed because it may have been trying to protect a cub, park officials said in a statement. While mauling a hiker on Signal Mountain, the grizzly bit into the man’s can of bear repellent …
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Just as the busy summer tourist season is kicking off in Grand Teton National Park, a surprise encounter with two grizzly bears seriously injured an unnamed 35-year-old Massachusetts man, who was airlifted by helicopter to an ambulance which subsequently drove him to the hospital. The park service stated that the victim is “in stable condition and is expected to fully …
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