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Nation & World

New questions arise about Navy Yard attack

An image provided by the FBI shows Aaron Alexis moving through a hallway of Building #197 at the Washington Navy…

November 22, 2013

Local News

Solutions posed for Animas River toxins

Tests look good, but field work still to come

November 22, 2013

Nation & World

Roof collapse kills scores

The death toll from the rush-hour disaster Thursday evening at the Maxima supermarket in Riga rose to 51 on Friday,…

November 22, 2013

Nation & World

Evolution debate again engulfs Texas board of education

Eric Gay/Associated Press<br><br>The Texas Board of Education is selecting textbooks for the next school year. The board voted to end…

November 22, 2013

Nation & World

Nation pauses to remember JFK

But 50 years later, the thousands of people who filled Dealey Plaza weren’t there to cheer but to remember in…

November 22, 2013

Nation & World

Attacks around U.S. probed for link to knockout game

In each case, police are investigating whether the attacks are part of a violent game called “knockout,” where the object…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Experts: HealthCare.gov fix needs more time, money

Technology experts say the federal government’s health-care insurance website will eventually work, but they expect it will be very expensive…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Iran: Difficult differences at nuclear talks

Talks to restrain Iran’s nuclear power program are apparently hanging up over sanctions relief and on language about whether Iran…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Investors laud Dow record

The stock market is continuing its strong recent showing, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing above 16,000 for the…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Giant blast lights up heavens

Because the blast was 3.7 billion light-years away, mankind was spared. But orbiting telescopes got the fireworks show of a…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Poll: Most believe in JFK conspiracies

Fifty years later, no less than 61 percent of Americans believe others besides Lee Harvey Oswald were involved in Kennedy’s…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Homelessness continues to fall

That’s according to a new government survey. The Obama administration says the drop is due in part to more people…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Rules against making cellphone calls during airline flights are “outdated,” and it’s time to change them, federal regulators…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

World Briefs

TRIPOLI, Libya – Militias from a string of Libyan cities left the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday, nearly a week after…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Karzai wants to wait to sign deal in 2014

Speaking before the council, a loya jirga, that he had convened Thursday to ratify the bilateral security agreement, Karzai told…

November 21, 2013

Local News

Local Briefs

The Colorado Department of Transportation has a single lane closed on U.S. Highway 550 on Bondad Hill that will remain…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Skakel freed on bail as he awaits new Connecticut trial

Prosecutors are appealing a decision to give Michael Skakel, who was convicted in the 1975 slaying of neighbor Martha Moxley,…

November 21, 2013

Daily update

Community Menus

Durango/La Plata Senior Center: Dijon chicken, steamed brown rice, orange beets, salad bar, wheat roll and blueberry cobbler. Durango School…

November 21, 2013

Daily update

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…

November 21, 2013

Daily update

Dayplanner Friday

Operation Christmas Child collection site open, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive, samaritanspurse.org. “Memoirs” writing group…

November 21, 2013

Nation & World

Senate Democrats limit filibuster

GOP: One day they will miss minority protections

November 21, 2013

Local News

First major storm may stick around

As of Thursday night, the National Weather Service instated a Winter Storm Warning for all Southwest Colorado, placed it on…

November 21, 2013

Regional News

Theater shooting trial postponed over sanity issue

Holmesdu1-i-syn Holmes’ trial had been scheduled to begin with jury selection in February. Holmes, 25, pleaded not guilty by reason…

November 20, 2013

Regional News

Some marijuana businesses raided ahead of retail sales

An officer walks past a pile of marijuana seized during a raid at Swiss Medical Industries in Boulder on Thursday.…

November 20, 2013