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Snowden trial may be risky

Legal experts say that if former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden is ever prosecuted in U.S. courts, the government…

January 21, 2014

Local News

Airport director: Build a new one

Voters likely would need to OK cost for new facility

January 20, 2014

Regional News

Gay marriage movement advancing slowly in Colorado

Many think courts are the most likely institution to change state’s law

January 20, 2014

Local News

Dayplanner Wednesday

Greg Ryder, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150. Ace Revel, 6 p.m., 6512, 128 E. College Drive,…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

NOAA: 2013 4th-warmest year on Earth

The average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.12 degrees above the 20th-century average and marks the 37th…

January 20, 2014

Local News

Brewing across borders

Swedes brew suds locally

January 20, 2014

Local News

S.W. Colo. snowpack falls below average

The snowpack in Southwest Colorado – the Animas, Dolores, San Juan, Mancos and San Miguel drainages – was 100 percent…

January 20, 2014

Regional News

ACLU sues Utah for not recognizing gay marriages

Plaintiffs Matthew Barraza, left, and his husband Tony Milner, right, look on as their son Jesse, 4, plays, during a…

January 20, 2014

Regional News

Fires, floods unite lawmakers

The Senate Local Government Committee voted 7-0 Tuesday in favor of a bill to make it easier for counties to…

January 20, 2014

Local News

Western Excelsior pollution may finally end in Mancos

Company has offered plan for its abatement

January 20, 2014

Local News

The swing shift

STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald<br><br>Owen Littleton, 9, left, and Linkin Griego, 7, and their classmates in the Durango School District 9-R Shared…

January 20, 2014

Local News

The Blotter

Monday 10:05 p.m. A water main broke at the 3000 block of Main Ave. Sunday 8:52 a.m. A noise disturbance…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol?

Obama’s interview with The New Yorker magazine will appear Jan. 27. In it he said that while he considers marijuana…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Family of man held in North Korea worried, encouraged

American missionary Kenneth Bae, right, leaves after speaking to reporters at Pyongyang Friendship Hospital in Pyongyang Monday. Bae, 45, who…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Study raises questions about youth arrests

One of the authors of a study showing nearly half of all black men have been arrested on non-traffic-related charges…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Some Obama spy changes hampered by complications

Legal experts say some of President Barack Obama’s proposals to reform the government’s surveillance programs raise constitutional and other problems.Charles…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Police link 2 arrests to Target data theft

McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez says dozens of fraudulent credit cards were confiscated by police after arresting a man and…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

U.N. withdraws Iran invite to talks

Plans for a peace conference to end the war in Syria are in doubt after the United Nations Monday withdrew…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

OMAHA, Neb. – An explosion Monday morning that brought down part of an animal feed processing plant in Omaha left…

January 20, 2014

Local News

Local Briefs

The Ignacio post office, 1001 Williams St., is available to process passports. For more information or to make an appointment,…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Fatalities reported in Omaha plant explosion

Firefighters stage outside the International Nutrition plant in Omaha, Neb., Monday. A fire and explosion killed several people and hospitalized…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Iran, U.S., Europe start implementing nuclear deal

Iran is disconnecting connections between cascades of centrifuges that were producing 20 percent enriched uranium at Iran’s Natanz facility. It…

January 20, 2014

Nation & World

Obama celebrates MLK holiday, visits soup kitchen

People around the country marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday by remembering and discussing the civil rights leader’s legacy.…

January 20, 2014

Regional News

New kangaroo at Loveland home zoo

Pogo, a 1-year-old kangaroo, who wears a diaper and a T-shirt, spends a lot of time inside the house hanging…

January 19, 2014