As he began to pack a few of his belonging into his motor home, it hit John Bissett that his entire El Paso County house could be destroyed by what is now Colorado’s most destructive wildfire. The fire burned a mile or two away from his house.

John Bissett, the president of the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs, evacuated his northern El Paso county house around 6 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, June 12.

The Silver Fire in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico grew to 17,000 acres on Wednesday. As it burned toward the southwest it approached the small community of just over a dozen in Kingston, N.M.

Armin Wertz, a German journalist who entered Syria to report on the conflict, has been detained and is being held by the Syrian government. His detainment follows the release of a different German journalist, Billy Six, who was released in March 2013.

An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, “house of horrors” clinic.

An exclusive screening of the award winning documentary, “Free China: The Courage to Believe,” was held at the Troy Public Library on May 5 in Troy, Michigan.

The three women who escaped from their captor in Cleveland can recuperate and have full lives, according to two experts. They will do best with privacy, acceptance, and counseling.

Hawaii, an island surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, ranks as the number one state where residents say they experience little stress. West Virginia, landlocked in the Appalachian region, ranks as the number one state where residents experience the most stress, according to a Gallup survey.