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Education Briefs

Durango School District 9-R Superintendent Dan Snowberger will lead a round table to discuss the district’s current academic programs from…

Records reveal reasons for pub’s suspension

State pulled Irish Embassy’s liquor license for 10 days

Bondad boom!

Blast near Bondad to make highway safer; large chunk of sandstone cliff disintegrated with dynamite

U.S. challenges China claim

China is raising the stakes in the East China Sea by announcing that it is establishing an air defense zone…

Deal spurs concerns for some ex-hostages

Iranians gather outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979 after revolutionary students took 60 Americans hostage earlier in…

Community Road Work Conditions

The city of Durango Community Development Department’s fall construction of the Downtown Sidewalk Improvement Project has resumed. Each side street…

Community Menus

Durango/La Plata Senior Center: Swiss steak, whipped potatoes, California veggies, salad bar, wheat roll and peaches. Durango School District 9-R:…

Dayplaner Wednesday

Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385.…

Penny Lane: Gitmo’s other secret CIA facility

This satellite image taken in September 2010 shows a portion of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the secret facility…

Supreme Court to take up dispute

Some companies don’t want to cover birth control

The Blotter

Monday 10:48 a.m. A woman reported suspicious footprints by her window at Hillcrest Apartments, 1000 Goeglein Gulch Road. 1:12 p.m.…

The view from on high

Bovine venereal disease appears

La Plata, Archuleta counties on list

Telluride gets kudos from Condé Nast readers

According to a poll conducted by Condé Nast Traveler, the ski area, about 2½ hours from Durango, is No. 1…

Nation/World Briefs

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University was locked down for nearly six hours Monday as authorities investigated a phone call…

Thai protesters occupy government buildings, cut power

The U.S. Embassy in Thailand is advising Americans to use caution and avoid areas with anti-government protesters are demonstrating. Protesters…

Local Briefs

A free community breakfast will take place from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the Marvel Grange Hall, 217 County…

Supreme Court weighs new health law dispute

Amid the troubled rollout of the health law, and 17 months after the justices upheld it, the Obama administration is…

Israel resumes campaign against Iran

Israel says it will not end its attempts to stop the United States and five other world powers from easing…

Prospects brighten for small-scale budget deal

Neither party will get its biggest priority – for Democrats, higher taxes; for Republicans, slowing the exploding cost of retirement…

Easing of Iran sanctions could start in December

Many Iranians are upbeat about a new deal that will ease some of the international sanctions against their country in…

Long-delayed hydro plant gets go-ahead

Silverton project first of kind in state

Newtown report fails to determine shooting motive

This file photograph from the Newtown Bee shows a police officer leading two women and a child from Sandy Hook…

World powers announce Syrian peace talk plans

The U.N. will sponsor talks aimed at ending the fighting in Syria and trying to establish an interim government that…