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Scars linger from killer Montana earthquake of '59 By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, Mont. (AP) -- Just before midnight under the moon's gray light, the world tilted and tore off a Montana mountainside. Sliding rock buried 19 campers alive, their bodies never found, and 80 million tons of rock and trees tumbled into Madison River Canyon, leaving rubble piled more than 200 feet deep.

First note: at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory Webcams page, you can see the two Halemaumau cams. Over the past few days, glow from the wall vent has been very bright at night, indicating that the surface of the pond is high. In the Overlook Webcam, in the AM around dawn, it's been possible to see the surface of the pond. A further rise and spillover onto the floor of Halemaumau would be very, very interesting to see. On to the images for today. Not having seen anything of remarkable interest, I decided to go with one of America's best rock...

BILLINGS, Mont. – Wolves in parts of the northern Rockies and the Great Lakes region come off the endangered species list on Monday, opening them to public hunts in some states for the first time in decades. Federal officials say the population of gray wolves in those areas has recovered and is large enough to survive on its own. The animals were listed as endangered in 1974, after they had been wiped out across the lower 48 states by hunting and government-sponsored poisoning.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Major league pitcher Joe Kennedy died early Friday morning, a Hillsborough County sheriff's official said. He was 28. Kennedy passed out at home and was brought to a hospital, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. She had no further details. Kennedy's agent, Damon Lapa, told ESPN.com that Kennedy died while at home with family in Florida. He did not return phone calls and an e- mail from The Associated Press. "We were terribly shocked," Blue Jays president Paul Godfrey said. "From what we understand he was in Bradenton ... to be the best man at...

Boston sweeps. Wins game 4, 4-3.

"When it's third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time." That's the authoritative word from Green Bay Packers legend Max McGee, who died on Oct. 20 at 75 after he fell raking leaves from his roof. Many old-time athletes and sports writers have felt the same way. Didn't Babe Ruth set records while satisfying his voracious appetite for hot dogs, booze, and sex? Character counts, but runs count more, right? That's what the Colorado Rockies thought until 2004, when fastballer Denny Neagle was arrested for soliciting a prostitute. The Rockies, who had finished...

Esoteric Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo made an offer to a fellow Republican (and it wasn’t newly minted Sox fan Rudy Giuliani): [Tancredo’s] campaign called ABC News to issue this challenge: The Colorado congressman will drop out of the race if the Rockies lose the World Series — if rival Mitt Romney agrees to pack it in if the Red Sox lose. It is so on. Surely Mitt took the bet. The score was 13-1. They’re gonna win it all, governor! . . . [Romney] spokesman Kevin Madden issued a terse statement this morning: “The governor is in the race...

The Rockies Get Off Their Knees [posted online on October 23, 2007] Twenty-one wins in twenty-two games. An improbable run to the World Series. One of the hottest streaks to end a season in the history of the game. And not two pitchers the average fan could even name. Ladies and gents, your Colorado Rockies: a team performing what even an atheist could call a baseball miracle. And "miracle" is an appropriate term for a team that riled the baseball world last year by claiming that filling the dugout with Christian players would grease the skids to greatness. Last year...

DENVER — The Colorado Rockies suspended World Series ticket sales Monday after overwhelming demand crashed their computer system. “Right now we’re shutting the system down,” club spokesman Jay Alves announced outside Coors Field, drawing boos from fans. “We expect to be online at some point.” “We’re as frustrated and disappointed as they are,” Alves said. Alves had said last week that the Rockies were prepared for any computer problems. On Monday, there were 8.5 million attempts to connect with the computers in the first 90 minutes after sales started, he said, and only several hundred tickets had been sold before...

If you’re the Colorado Rockies, you couldn’t do it with any better exclamation point than bagging your single most public underminer for the Monday night out that means game, set, 21 wins in your previous 22 games from the regular season onward, and, oh, yes, your first-ever National League pennant. And if you’re an Arizona Diamondbacks fan, you couldn’t have felt any worse wash of venom through the Denver chill than to see Eric Byrnes coming to a dead, face-first stop, when his diving slide to first failed to beat Troy Tulowitzki’s long throw across, after the game-ending grounder slipped...

Colorado now has won 7 straight playoff games, 8 if you count the play-in game against the Padres, and have lost only one game in the last month. They now await the winner of the Indians - Red Sox series, which the Indians lead 2 games to 1.

Phillies vs. Rockies, 3:00 p.m. ET TV: TBS | Radio: WPHT 1210, WUBA 1480 (Sp.) (Live Thread) Post comments about the Phillies vs. Rockies game here.

The MLB playoff picture is now complete. And what a way to complete it. The Padres led 8-6, in the 14th inning, with all time saves leader Trevor Hoffman on the mound...bring on the Phillies, right? Uh...no. Details to follow.

Since entering the Major Leagues in 1993, the Colorado Rockies have made the playoffs only once. Last year, they had the second-worst record in Major League baseball, and the previous few seasons were not much better. It’s clear that things had to change, starting with getting better ballplayers. But what makes the Rockies different from other baseball franchises is how the Rockies define better. Obviously, the Rockies’ primary concern, like everybody else’s, is with the player’s performance on the field. There’s no escaping the importance of hitting, pitching, and fielding. However, CEO Charlie Monfort and General Manager Dan O’Dowd don’t...

The Twins once had a player who claimed to be a devoted Christian and who did quite a bit of proselytizing in the clubhouse. The problem was that many of his teammates didn't take him seriously because they were convinced he was an exhibitionist. This fellow liked to parade around the clubhouse in the buff. And that included off days when most guys just came in to pick up their mail. But the team has had some dandy Christian ballplayers over the years, including Rick Aguilera and Greg Gagne. On the other hand, the most overtly religious player on the...

Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Date: 2003-11-04 Sky-high Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-central Washington Seattle -- Geologists have uncovered a scene in the Pasco Basin west of the Columbia River in Washington state that shows how boulders piggybacked icebergs from what is now Montana and came to rest at elevations as high as 1,200 feet. Although glacial deposits of rocks and boulders are common, especially in the upper Midwest, "There probably isn't anyplace else in the world where there are so many rocks that rafted in on icebergs," said Bruce Bjornstad, a geologist at the Department...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Thursday ordered federal land managers across the Rockies to look for ways to remove or reduce environmental restrictions on federal lands in order to make way for oil and gas drilling. The new rules issued by Bureau of Land Management Director Kathleen Clarke represent a ramping up of the administration's push to develop several key natural gas fields in the Rocky Mountain West. They order BLM officials to review environmental restrictions, speed up energy projects, streamline environmental restoration and maintain ties with industry. "What it says is make sure the restrictions in place are...