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Steam event at Mount St. Helens visible at web cam link above. It was also shown on cable news earlier this morning.

'Volcano Advisory' Issued for Mount Saint Helens POSTED: 10:00 am PDT September 28, 2004 UPDATED: 5:15 pm PDT September 29, 2004 MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- Geologists have raised the alert level at Mount Saint Helens to a "volcano advisory," the second highest warning of a possible eruption. IMAGES FROM THE MOUNTAIN Webcam: Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam Slideshow: Looking Back At 1980 Eruption Slideshow: Images From Mount St. Helens Crater Geologists said activity at Mount Saint Helens is "ramping up" and they are more convinced now that magma is moving under the volcano. They expected an eruption would be limited...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control activists, health care advocates and law enforcement groups geared up on Tuesday for a last-ditch effort to prevent a 1994 ban on assault weapons from expiring next week, but even its most ardent backers acknowledge the drive is all but futile. But the influential National Rifle Association gun lobby, meanwhile, said it would "not take anything for granted" as it works to send the ban into oblivion. Ban advocates called on President Bush (news - web sites) to intervene and get Congress to act. But Bush, who in his 2000 campaign promised to sign legislation,...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a temporary injunction barring the state from removing thousands of tons of earth and rubble mixed with assorted archaeologically rich artifacts laying on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, just hours after a group of leading Israeli archaeologists and public officials filed a petition to the High Court of Justice against their removal. The swift interim ruling issued by Justice Jacob Turkel - which was handed down the afternoon after the non-partisan 'Committee Against the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount' took the Government of Israel and the Antiquities Authority to court - bars the state...

Al-Turki speaks of plots to remove al-Aqsa mosque Palestine-Regional, Politics, 8/23/2004 Secretary General of the Islamic World Association, Abdullah al-Turki, Sunday urged the international community to "put an end to the Zionist terrorist organizations which plot to destruct and remove the holy mosque of al-Aqsa in Jerusalem." In a statement commemorating the 35th anniversary of burning al-Aqsa at the hands of the Israeli extremists, al-Turki warned against "new Zionist plots to remove the holiest mosque in Islam." " Burning al-Aqsa at the hands of an extremist Zionist in Aug, 1969 was a reflection of a Zionist plan which aimed at...

Sermon on the mount By Laura Johnston ~ Southeast Missourian Holding the reigns to his horse, Desired Spark, Lew Sterrett rode around Flickerwood Arena in Fruitland kicking up dirt and sharing Scripture at the same time. Sterrett delivered his "Sermon on the Mount" before a standing-room-only crowd Friday night at the arena. At least 1,000 people filled the bleachers in the arena to see Sterrett break a 3-year-old stallion that had never before been ridden. As he worked to gain the horse's trust, Sterrett talked about faith and developing trust in God. The event was sponsored by the Cape County...

Hundreds of Palestinians teens pelted police with stones at the end of Friday Muslim prayers on the Temple Mount, in some of the worst violence at the Jerusalem holy site in months, police said. Jerusalem police in riot gear rushed into the ancient compound and fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd of rioters. Fourteen Palestinians were arrested on the scene for taking part in stone-throwing, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. Four policemen and about a dozen Palestinians were reported lightly injured in the clashes. After police entered the site, hundreds of Palestinians teens...

MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) submitted a Knesset bill today (Sunday) forbidding burial on the Temple Mount. There have been reports recently that Yassir Arafat intends to be buried there in order to strengthen the Arab claim to Judaism’s holiest site. “I intend to prevent the transformation of the Temple Mount into a Palestinian national site,” Eldad said. MK Eldad submitted the proposed law, which also prohibits burial within Jerusalem’s Old City, in response to increasing reports that Yassir Arafat intends to be buried on the Temple Mount - in a final attempt, according to Eldad, “to strengthen the Arab...

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Technology that provides precise data about cracks on the face of Mount Rushmore confirm the rock is moving, but only with changes in temperatures and only slightly. The National Park Service hired Rapid City engineering firm RESPEC in 1999 to install "linear variable displacement transducers" - or LVDTs - at strategic locations on Mount Rushmore. The LVDTs can detect rock movement measuring a thousandth of an inch. On Tuesday experts gave their annual assurances that Mount Rushmore won't tumble anytime soon. "I'd bet my life on it," Rushmore maintenance mechanic Bob Crisman said. Gathering the data...

Nearly three years after Jerusalem's Temple Mount was declared off limits to non-Muslims visitors, the bitterly contested holy site was reopened to Jewish and Christian visitors Wednesday, without the explicit approval of the Islamic Wakf which administers the compound. Jerusalem police chief Mickey Levy said that "several hundred" Jewish and Christian visitors toured the area during the two hours it was open to the public on Wednesday morning without any reports of violence. However, for reasons that were not immediately clear, journalists invited to a briefing with the police chief at the Western Wall plaza Wednesday morning, were not allowed...

Mount Rainier called a threat Experts: Mountain is more unstable than previously thoughtBy Blaine Harden THE WASHINGTON POST MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash., Aug. 11 — Wedding cake white and big beyond words, Mount Rainier floats above Puget Sound like a child’s dream of what a mountain might be. • Buy Life Insurance • MSNBC Hot List • Yellow Pages • Get A Loan • expedia.com • Shopping DREAMS OF Rainier come in handy here, for the mountain itself has a habit of disappearing in clouds for weeks or even months on end. The 3 million people who live in...

Mount Sinai was volcano in Saudi Arabia, says scientist By Roger Highfield Science Editor (Filed: 13/06/2003) Mount Sinai, where Scripture says Moses received God's Law, is located in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt's Sinai Peninsula - moving a key site for Judaism into the nation where Islam was founded, according to a Cambridge professor. Science also backs traditional beliefs that the Israelites' exodus from Egypt was led by Moses, roughly the way that the Bible tells it, according to Prof Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University. Prof Humphreys, a churchgoing Baptist and materials scientist, outlines his ideas in his forthcoming book: The...