Author – The Durango Herald

Youngest Selma march participant describes the day

NEW YORK – “Steady, loving confrontation.” Those were the first words Lynda Blackmon Lowery says she heard from the mouth of Martin Luther King Jr. “And those three wo...

DATE: Jan 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hundreds line up for wake of ex-New York Gov. Mario Cuomo

NEW YORK – Hundreds of mourners waited outside a funeral home Monday in a line that stretched more than a block to pay their respects to former three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo, who died just hou...

DATE: Jan 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chef sets sweet new goal

New Yorker hopes to break own record with gingerbread village

DATE: Nov 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

America, world mark Veterans Day

Celebrations include parades, music

DATE: Nov 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Trade Center reopens for business

NEW YORK – Thirteen years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center has again opened for business – marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the ...

DATE: Nov 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Last stretch of NYC park to open

Abandoned rails turned into 22-block walkway

DATE: Sep 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NYC High Line to open last stretch

Transformation of railway now complete

DATE: Sep 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Remains of Sept. 11 victims being moved

NEW YORK – Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World T...

DATE: May 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Relics of the past or just aging eyesores?

NEW YORK – They were designed for the 1964 World’s Fair as sleek, space-age visions of the future: three towers topped by flying-saucer-like platforms, and a pavilion of pillars with a suspe...

DATE: Apr 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Watch out: Icicles can hurt you

Urbanites getting injured by falling sheets of ice

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Part of New York Greenwich Village gets landmark status

NEW YORK – The city’s newest historic landmark is part of a neighborhood where generations of American cultural greats staged their art, music, literature and politics – from Edgar Allan Poe...

DATE: Dec 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mystery man gives ‘Tips For Jesus’ – up to $10,000

NEW YORK – The $111.05 New York restaurant receipt includes a $1,000 tip and the words “god bless!” scrawled across it. The handle @tipsforjesus is stamped next to an illegible s...

DATE: Dec 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World