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Mother’s work inspires Colorado child-abuse law

Michelle Peterson helped develop reporting policies to protect kids in club team sports from abuse. Her experience as a forensic…

Grand Junction library a place to teach English to newcomers

Gretel Daugherty/The Daily Sentinel<br><br>Tish Kllanxhja, left, works with Luidmila Vasilyeva, a native of St. Petersberg, Russia, to improve her English…

N.M. park officials close Alcove House

Accessible only by a series wooden ladders and steep stone steps, the kiva at the Alcove House site graces the…

Washington pressure helps sink ski area water bill

Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, said he expects his House Bill 1013 to die without a vote in May, when the…

Nothing to sneeze at?

Pollen season not yet severe, but allergy sufferers still seek relief

Mud storm cleanup not so easy

Window cleaner: ‘I’ve never had to deal with this level of grit’

Politics prevails, but budget passes

Republican irked as House nixes scholarship amendment

Grant to help study fire-prevention behavior

University of Colorado to get $298,045

Police nab man in connection with death of corrections chief

Colorado Springs authorities arrested Thomas Guolee, 31, around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Colorado Springs, according to El Paso County sheriff’s…

Reality show with Durangoans changes air date

Wells Group broker Chelsea Krueger and her buyers, Ryan and Krista Montgomery, will be featured on the reality TV show,…

Foster volunteers needed

Study about guns, mentally ill may take different path

The measure from Democratic Rep. Beth McCann would establish a bipartisan panel of lawmakers, mental-health professionals and firearm experts that…

Rise of anti-Thatcher tune challenges BBC

By Friday, the online campaign had propelled the “Wizard of Oz” song to No. 1 on British iTunes and into…

Auction of Hopi masks decried

Paris sale includes dozens of artifacts with religious significance

U.S. says North Korea’s nuclear firepower limited

Likelihood of missile launch is strong, defense official says

Bipartisan bill would ease state-federal marijuana conflict

California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said his bill, which has three Republican and three Democratic sponsors, would ensure that state…

Kerry to North Korea: Don’t test missile

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and South Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se share a few words while waiting…

Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies

Jonathan Winters, who inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, died Thursday at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural…

U.S. intelligence: N. Korea may have nuclear warhead

President Barack Obama listens as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses North Korea’s escalating rhetoric about a missile launch. Obama says…

Global warming not cause of U.S. drought, study says

Scientists say the lack of moisture usually pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico was the main reason for the…

Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches political group

Zuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced “forward us”) in an op-ed article in The Washington Post late Wednesday. In…

Senate group wraps up work on immigration bill

After months of arduous closed-door negotiations, the “Gang of Eight” senators, equally divided between the two parties, had no issues…

N. Korea hints it will soon launch a missile

U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets prepare to take off from a runway during their military exercise at the Osan…

Gun-control bill clears first hurdle in Senate

With the Capitol in the background, an unidentified man walks past thousands of grave markers erected in a mock cemetery…