Mercury, a fast-growing tech company based in Durango, is moving toward issuing stock to the public in an initial public offering. Here’s what you need to know: What is an IPO? T...

AUSTIN, Texas – Former President Jimmy Carter Tuesday night lamented continuing inequalities between black and white Americans during a 50th anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights Act in Texas th...

ARLINGTON, Texas – The Connecticut Huskies lost their head coach, their teammates, their chance to play at the NCAA Tournament for a year. They were castoffs, unwanted mutts without a home, told they ...

MIAMI – Reaching the nation’s 55 million Latinos has become gospel for mainstream media giants, but capturing this fast-growing, mostly U.S.-born audience is proving tricky to networks and websites. F...

PERTH, Australia – Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian...

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – The Chula Vista Elementary School District not only measures the academic progress of Marina Beltran’s second-grader, but also measures her son’s body fat. Every two ...

RENO, Nev. – Tensions are growing on the range in a turf battle simmering for decades over one of the icons of the American West and scant forage on arid, high desert lands from Nevada to Wyoming. ...

On a beautiful Sunday last October, Detective Dan Douglas stood in a suburban Minnesota home and looked down at a lifeless 20-year-old – a needle mark in his arm, a syringe in his pocket. It didn’t ta...

WASHINGTON – Seven million people signed up, so there is an appetite for President Barack Obama’s health care law, but that doesn’t guarantee success for the country’s newest social program ...