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Federal health market surpasses 1M signups

December surge propels participation

December 29, 2013

Suicide bombing in Russia kills 16

Security concerns rise in lead up to Sochi Olympics

December 29, 2013

Lapping up the sunshine

Rita, an 11-year-old dog, soaks up the rays while her owner equally enjoys the sunshine. With forecasts showing mostly sun…

E-readers do less, but with no distractions

E-readers don’t do everyting that tablets do, but they are very good at what they do: provide an easy and…

Stores’ holiday sales strong

Free parking downtown helps boost bottom line

Managed funds get new respect

NEW YORK – Stock pickers are getting respect again. Well, some of them. Respect in investing often is measured in…

IPO investors score best year since tech boom

Initial public offerings are hot again, with 222 companies selling shares to the public in 2013. That’s the biggest number…

Suspect in Colorado triple slaying arrested in Oklahoma

DENVER – A man suspected of killing three people and setting fire to a home in southern Colorado has been…

Booming stock markets, D.C. gridlock are top stories

It was an easy year to emulate Warren Buffett even as Congress almost wrecked the economy. U.S. stocks rocketed to…

Where is Old Man Winter?

Forecast: Keep the heavy coat in the closet for now

Legal pot sales begin amid uncertainty

From use to taxes, all eyes are on Colorado to see how it plays out

At least 10 killed in bus explosion Volgograd

An ambulance leaves the site of a trolley explosion in Volgograd, Russia, on Monday. The explosion left 10 people dead…

Depreciation hits electric cars hard

Plug-in electric cars may be cutting-edge technology, but an analysis suggests that most will depreciate more dramatically through five years…

Pitfalls abound as legal sales of pot begin

As Colorado prepares to be the first in the nation to allow recreational pot sales hopeful retailers are investing their…

Labor, sex traffickers, modern slavery active in Colorado

DENVER (AP) – The FBI’s Rocky Mountain Innocence Lost Task Force rescued 59 teen prostitutes from flesh peddlers in Colorado…

Best of the Blotter

It can be sad, serious, upsetting, ridiculous and even side-splitting. The daily police reports in The Durango Herald hold a…

Moving rocks at Smelter Rapid

Construction continues on the whitewater park at Smelter Rapid. Workers with Colorado Riverworks have diverted the flow to the east…

Central-area shift in Phoenix housing market

PHOENIX – The housing market in one of America’s largest cities is shifting as builders turn vacant lots and old…

Sudan wary of ‘White Army’

Atem Apieth, 6, received a gunshot wound to his shoulder during the recent fighting in Bor and managed to travel…

Federal judge questions lack of fraud-related prosecutions

Rakoffdu1-i-syn Why haven’t top business executives faced fraud charges for wrongdoing related to the national fiscal crisis? A senior federal…

Unprepared: World braces for retirement crisis

Reduced benefits, poor saving habits partly to blame

Fat chances

Massive tires create massive smiles

GOP on warpath to ‘buck’ Udall

Weld’s DA is favorite to face incumbent