Papoose Fire Forces Evacuations in Colorado

Officials are ordering evacuations due to the Papoose Fire, in Colorado.

Burning over twenty thousand acres, the fire has not burnt any buildings, but fears are it may soon.

Hermit Lakes and San Juan Ranch campgrounds have been ordered evacuated, due to the approaching flames.

Worries are that the town of Creede may also be ordered to evacuate, but so far they have not been told to do so.

West Fork Fire Continues Expansion

The West Fork Fire has burned over fifty-five thousand acres.

All four hundred residents have been forced to leave South Fork, Colorado as the fire continues it's march.

Several hundred fire fighters, aided by aircraft, are battling the flames.

A Type 1 Incident Team took over command of firefighting efforts, on Saturday.

Lightning initially started the blaze on June 5, but recent winds spread the fire very rapidly.

Texas A&M Collapse Injures 4

Four construction workers were injured when the frame of a barn collapsed, on Saturday.

The accident happened on a Texas A&M campus.

An equestrian complex is being built, and one of the barn's frames collapsed.

Pictures showed the twisted metal sticking up into the air.

2 Killed in Ohio Air Show Crash

Two people were killed in a plane crash at a Dayton, Ohio air show.

The accident involved a wing walker act, and resulted in the death of both the pilot and stunt person.

The plane burst into flames immediately upon striking the ground.

According to witnesses the plane appeared to stall out, but was too low to recover.

Some praised the pilot for steering away from the crowd, in the last few seconds.

430 at Virginia High School May Have Been Exposed to Tuberculosis

Authorities in Fairfax County, Virginia are concerned that an entire high school may have been exposed to tuberculosis.

Two people at Robert E. Lee High School have come down with the active form of the disease.

As many four hundred and thirty students and staff may have been exposed to TB.

Officials are working to test all of those who may have been exposed.

1 Dead in Midwest Storms

One woman was killed as storms struck part of the US, on Friday.

Winds as high as eighty-five miles per hour were accompanied by tornadoes and hail as big as baseballs.

A woman in South Dakota was killed, when the high winds tossed her trailer around.

In Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin nearly half a million people lost power at one point or another, due to the storms.

Electric companies warned that some of those outages could last through Tuesday.

Storms were expected to continue on Saturday, bring similar conditions to Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

24 Killed in Iraq Violence

Twenty-four people were killed across Iraq, in Saturday's violence.

Fifteen were killed and thirty injured when a suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque, in Taj.

Another suicide bomber killed four, at a village south of Mosul.

Three police were killed and a fourth wounded when a gunmen opened fire on them, in Tuz-Khurmato.

In Tikrit, two were killed and four wounded when a militant threw a grenade into a crowd.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they are thought to be the work of Sunni groups.