Fleeing fire danger in Arizona...Spring storms bring heavy hail...House vote to curb NSA

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KACHINA VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Fire officials in Arizona say a wildfire burning in a scenic canyon is about 3 miles away from two residential areas on the edge of Flagstaff. Some 3,200 residents remain under pre-evacuation warnings, but with smoke billowing over homes, many residents have already cleared out. The fire covering 7.5 square miles is uncontained.

DENVER (AP) — Spring thunderstorms have been delivering hail and triggering tornado sirens in the West and Northeast today. In Colorado, heavy hail briefly pounded downtown Denver while campers evacuated Red Feather Lakes northwest of Fort Collins after hundreds of trees were knocked down. In New Mexico, storms with large hail caused multiple car wrecks. In the East, there's been damage from hail and strong winds in Virginia, New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records. The bill was approved 303-121, but one supporter complains the final version was "watered down." Other major provisions designed to restrict NSA surveillance, including limits on the secret court that grants warrants to search the data, did not survive the negotiations to get the bill to the House floor.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed five felony charges against a California man accused of kidnapping his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter a decade ago. Police say the now 25-year-old woman lived a seemingly ordinary life with her alleged captor but was too scared to go to authorities until she recently reunited with her mother. Isidro Garcia has not entered a plea. He's jailed on $1 million bail.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's government has issued an environmental permit for oil drilling in the pristine Amazon reserve that President Rafael Correa initially offered to exempt from exploration if rich countries would pay his government. Correa abandoned that effort last year due to insufficient interest and has spurned pleas by environmentalists to spare the Yasuni reserve.