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Schools challenged in turning to digital textbooks

DENVER – Mesa County parent Elizabeth Chiono received letters from some of her son’s teachers at the beginning of the…

December 20, 2013

Canadian court strikes down anti-prostitution laws

Terri-Jean Bedford talks to reporters at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa Friday morning after learning Canada’s highest court…

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

HHS loosens rules for those who lost health-care plans

WASHINGTON – Americans whose insurance policies were canceled this year will be excused from paying fees due to the individual…

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

Peace talk list still not clear

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, left, says about 30 nations will attend a conference next month to try to bring…

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Nominee to head IRS gets Senate approval WASHINGTON –A cross Congress ended its business for the year Friday as the…

December 20, 2013

Local News

Local Briefs

FLC to burn landscape debris The Fort Lewis College Physical Plant will burn landscape debris on Monday and Tuesday. During…

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

Global warming poll offers mixed results

More Americans agree that global warming is causing serious climate change, but a new poll also shows that even though…

December 20, 2013

Local News

Forecast predicts a fat year at state Capitol

Budget surplus predicted for 2014

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

After rough year, Obama upbeat about America’s future next year

President Barack Obama says more than 2 million people have signed up for health insurance since the government launched HealthCare.gov,…

December 20, 2013

Local News

Snow flurry covers Durango, high country

Conditions led to 3-car pileup

December 20, 2013

Local News

Feds tag Ouray County mine with 97 violations

Durangoan died there in Nov. 17 accident

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

Spy panel wants duplicate oversight board replaced

A sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. For months, two review panels given nearly similar…

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

Pressure builds on military

Obama vows further reforms if sex assaults aren’t reduced

December 20, 2013

Nation & World

Senate OKs defense bill, sends measure to Obama

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed debate on a new defense bill earlier this year because of fears that Republicans…

December 19, 2013

Local News

Beating gravity to the punch

Potentially hazardous rock was brought down Thursday on a steep hillside above U.S. Highway 160 about two miles west of…

December 19, 2013

Regional News

Nationwide search on for suspect in Colo. slayings

DENVER – A nationwide search is underway for a former long-distance trucker who is suspected in the deaths of three…

December 19, 2013

Local News

LPEA gets update on alternative-energy project

Pagosa man wants to turn forest debris into electricity

December 19, 2013

Nation & World

U.N. finds systematic disappearances in Syria

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, a man carries a child out of a…

December 19, 2013

Nation & World

Rodman returns to North Korea

Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman says his plans to stage an exhibition game in North Korea won’t be affected…

December 19, 2013

Nation & World

Israel downplaying threat of new boycott

Some in Israel are beginning to worry about growing efforts to organize boycotts to put pressure on the country to…

December 19, 2013

Nation & World

FDA rules being delayed

WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration will delay sweeping food safety rules proposed earlier this year and revise them…

December 19, 2013

Nation & World

Tide shifting toward new curbs on spying

White House press secretary Jay Carney says President Barack Obama is ready to consider approving most of the recommendations a…

December 19, 2013

Nation & World

Lights dimming on Edison’s bulbs

The 60- and 40-watt incandescent bulbs are being phased out in the United States beginning Jan. 1. The century-old light…

December 19, 2013

Local News

Guv: Firefighting air corps too costly

Train rural residents as first responders, Hickenlooper suggests

December 19, 2013