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Colorado couple capitulates in catwalk fight

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- A Durango area couple is giving up their fight to keep a 13-foot escape route for their cats outside their Colorado apartment. Martha Spence and her husband built the catwalk from a window to a nearby tree to allow their two cats to go outside from their second-floor unit whenever they wanted. The Durango Herald reported that they agreed to take it down Thursday at the request of the development's homeowners association. The couple had planned to appeal the board's request, but Spence said her husband wasn't able to take off work to pursue it.

Teen points Ohio authorities to bodies of 2 others

OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) -- Two teenage brothers who had been reported missing were found dead after a third teen pointed authorities to their bodies before he was taken into custody, officials said. The three teens -- 14-year-old Blaine Romes, 17-year-old Blake Romes and 17-year-old Michael Fay -- lived together with their mothers inside a trailer home in Ottawa in northwest Ohio, neighbors said.

Bangladesh collapse survivor rescued after 17 days

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-90s F. She rationed food and water. She banged a pipe to attract attention. She was fast losing hope of ever making it out alive. In the ruins of the collapsed eight-store garment factory building above her, the frantic rescue operation had long ago ended. It had turned instead into a grim search for the decaying bodies of the more than 1,000 people killed in the world's worst garment industry disaster.

Pa. university to allow guns on campus

KUTZTOWN -- Kutztown University has dropped its blanket prohibition on guns and will now allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry them onto campus under certain conditions, officials said Thursday. The university's new policy says that a gun owner with a "compelling reason" related to personal safety may bring a weapon onto campus with permission from the university police chief. Weapons will still be banned from campus buildings and athletic events.

Smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season. The six smokejumpers from a base in Redmond found the site Monday evening, when there was a rash of lightning strikes. Jackson County sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says the smokejumpers notified authorities, who hiked into the remote site in the Rogue River-Siskiyou (SIS'-kee-yoo) National Forest. They seized two guns and more than 1,000 little pot plants.

Diesel truck explosion closes busy Pa. interstate

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A section of Interstate 81 near Harrisburg was expected to remain closed in both directions for the next several days after a tanker truck fully loaded with diesel fuel overturned Thursday morning and exploded into flames, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. Officials said the crash occurred on an on-ramp to Route 22-322, where the ramp curls back over the interstate and runs under another section of Route 22-322. They said the intense heat buckled steel beams on the top section and damaged it so badly there were fears it could collapse and fall onto I-81.

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