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Study boosts hope of ‘liquid biopsies’ for cancer screening

Scientists have the first major evidence that blood tests called liquid biopsies hold promise for screening people for cancer. Hong Kong doctors tried it for a type of head and neck cancer, ...

Guam’s tourism popularity unhurt by North Korea threats

HAGATNA, Guam – Tourists haven’t been deterred from visiting the tropical island of Guam even though the U.S. territory has been the target of threats from North Korea during a week of angry...

Santa Fe Indian Market fuses tradition with contemporary art

For nearly a century, American Indian jewelers, potters and other artists have been gathering in the heart of northern New Mexico to show off their creations at one of the nation’s most pres...

And the West is History

100 years ago: A “casual investigation” of the coal situation in Durango showed that the O.K. Mine was selling and delivering slack and screenings in the city at “20 cents the ton less t...

Navajo code talker to speak in Cortez

Sam Sandoval served five South Pacific tours in WWII

And the West is History

100 years ago: Fred Eckley of Marvel “blew in during the forenoon” to have “a little taste of city life.” 75 years ago: Mrs. Charles Longstorm received word that her cousin...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Police arrested Peter Phillips, a “formerly well-known citizen of Durango,” and charged him with “wife beating.” He pleaded not guilty and “was bound over in the sum of fi...

Conservation easement protects Mancos elk ranch

Agricultural area preserved along U.S. Highway 160

Airplane turbulence can be scary, but it’s no cause for alarm

Patrick Smith compiled a list of the five things that worry him the most when flying. Bird strikes and cargo fires made the cut; turbulence did not. “Most of us in the cockpit are...

More than 1 in 5 travelers knowingly or unknowingly carried prohibited items onto aircraft, survey finds

A survey of airline passengers found that more than 20 percent had knowingly or unknowingly smuggled prohibited items past Transportation Security Administration checkpoints onto the aircraf...

Utah commission backs controversial name of canyon

NAACP says ‘Negro Bill’ name preserves history

And the West is History

100 years ago: Ross McGirr of the Otis-McGirr company returned by train “from somewhere in the United States where he had been visiting for some time.” 75 years ago: The Jo...
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