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St. Helena, one of world’s most remote islands, gets commercial flights

PROSPEROUS BAY PLAIN, St. Helena – One of the world’s most remote places became a little less isolated on Saturday when the first commercial flight arrived in St. Helena, a South Atlantic is...

Gynecology museum’s 4,500 items tell an interesting and odd medical tale

WASHINGTON – ‘What are those?” I asked, pointing to an instrument that appeared to be a fork and a spoon joined with handles. “Those are salad tongs,” deadpanned Mary Hyde, my guide through ...

Aspen bartender using tips to help people, nonprofits

ASPEN (AP) – Zachery Bowersock is making a difference in the world, one cocktail at a time. From raising money to help hospitals care for cancer patients to environmental organiza...

Travel industry ramps up effort to promote Caribbean tourism

The travel industry is ramping up efforts to remind consumers that many Caribbean islands were unaffected by hurricanes and that their economies depend on tourism. Tourism agencie...

Karen Pence: ‘All of us could benefit from art therapy’

Vice president’s wife will highlight issue during Trump administration

Signs of World War II crashes linger in northern Colorado wilderness

FORT COLLINS (AP) – Standing in a boulder field recently with 74-year-old mangled twists of plane wreckage at my feet, I wondered about the wind. It could be the reason all this w...

‘Breaking Bad’ house in Albuquerque gets fence to block fans

ALBUQUERQUE – The real Albuquerque house made famous by the methamphetamine-making character Walter White in the AMC-TV hit series “Breaking Bad” is getting a fence. The owners ar...

Should women older than 18 get the HPV vaccine?

About half of American teenagers have been vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Should adult women follow s...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Forty acres of land on Fort Lewis Mesa went on sale last spring, and hadn’t been purchased. The lack of interest forced the owner to rent the place, and “the renter plante...

And the West is History

100 years ago: It was announced that on Nov. 6, 1917, New Mexico would vote on statewide prohibition. 75 years ago: The first snow of the season fell on Cumbres Pass, accor...

Group launches campaign to rename Colorado’s Gore Range

FRISCO (AP) – The rugged mountain underbite in Summit and Eagle counties known as the Gore Range has drawn people to the area for generations, but soon the distinctive 60-mile run of peaks c...

Texas couple survives being stranded 6 days in rural Utah

SALT LAKE CITY – A Texas couple who set out for a day trip to Lake Powell while on vacation in southern Utah ended up narrowly surviving six harrowing days stranded on a rocky, desolate dirt...
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