PHOENIX - A sauna-like sweat lodge at an Arizona resort meant to provide spiritual cleansing became a crime scene Friday after two people died and others became ill during a two-hour session inside the crude structure.

Each summer, Dana Helfer of Tucson, Ariz., collects the long, yellowish string-bean-like pods produced by mesquite trees on her property and around her neighborhood. And each fall, she has the sweet-tasting pods ground into flour.

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A popular pair of endangered peregrine falcons have hatched three chicks on the ledge of a downtown Winnipeg hotel. The pair, which have nested on a ledge on the 13th floor for the past few years, returned despite being struck by misfortune in 2008.

The federal government wants to find a couple of additional retirement homes for old mustangs. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking bids to house up to 6,000 Western wild horses unlikely to be adopted because they are too old and because the agency

Shuttle Atlantis and its crew moved toward the Hubble Space Telescope for a 350-mile-high grab Wednesday that will set the stage for five days of treacherous spacewalking repairs in an orbit littered with space junk.

Researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants -- deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads fall off.

A massive Antarctic ice shelf is breaking up and pieces are expected to float away as icebergs over the course of the next few weeks.

Twelve named tropical storms will form in the Atlantic Basin--which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea--during hurricane season (June 1 and November 30), meteorologists Phil Klotzbach and William Gray predicted.

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