“The next hour was a combination of skill, luck, and teamwork,” Greider recalled. “We located the downed aircraft and had to land and shut down the chopper on the other side of a raging creek. “This would mean having to wade through the creek twice. The water was nearly four feet deep and moving swiftly, dragging us downstream.”

A historic measles outbreak in West Texas is just short of 200 cases, Texas state health officials said Friday, while the number of cases in neighboring New Mexico tripled to 30. Most of the cases across both states are in people younger than 18 and people who are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.

A coalition of Alaska disability advocates is raising concerns about the potential impacts of a federal lawsuit the state joined in September. Alaska and 16 other states filed the suit — State of Texas et al v.

Federal immigration authorities are trying to deport a Somali asylum seeker living in Anchorage, as his attorneys argue he should not be held because his country is on a list of nations the U.S. has determined are too dangerous to return migrants to.

As wildfires burn across Texas and the Carolinas, large swaths of the U.S. — including much of the Southeast and Southwest — will have an above-normal risk of wildfire in the coming months.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver star Xavier Worthy was arrested Friday on a domestic violence charge in Texas, according to authorities.