Matt Volz

The former Navy SEAL who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden was arrested Friday on a drunken driving charge after police found him asleep in a car parked at a convenience store in his Montana hometown.

A wildfire driven by gusting winds swept down Glacier National Park's most popular roadway toward a small community at the park's eastern entrance, sending visitors packing and residents scrambling to protect their homes and businesses.

Author Jon Krakauer doesn't like to make public appearances, so there will be no book tour to promote his latest work, "Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town." Instead, he plans to make one public appearance Wednesday night in Missoula, Montana, where he'll face angry critics who say his decision to focus on the small town is unfair.

Weary rescuers pressed through rain and their own exhaustion Thursday, searching for more bodies and a perhaps a miracle atop the pile of filth and debris that laid waste to a Washington town and killed at least 25 people.

Polar bear researchers are experimenting with the idea of crowdsourcing data as they study the effects of climate change on the animals.

Federal officials have taken over the case of a Montana man alleged to have tried to carry four loaded hand guns onto a commercial flight departing Sacramento International Airport.