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Fire district reduces its debt

Bond refinancing helps Upper Pine

Tad Elliott falls short of Olympic goal

Mononucleosis strikes at worst possible time

Gessler’s budget blame misplaced

Fee cuts, not Dems’ election bill, cost Secretary of State’s Office

Obama urges action on expanding college access

President Barack Obama is urging U.S. universities to commit to expanding opportunities for low-income Americans to get a college degree.…

Egyptian government hails election results

Unofficial results from the Egyptian government show about 40 percent of the voters in Cairo and Alexandra turned out for…

Proposed trail would link Cortez, Mesa Verde, Mancos

Steering committee being formed to consider 17-mile recreation path

Letting the locks talk

Some locals let their hairdos speak themselves

Dayplanner Friday

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.…

Here’s pie in your face

Mancos trustees weigh pot tax

Measure would take effect in 2015

Listeria cantaloupe farmers seek probation

Eric Jensen, 37, right and Ryan Jensen, 33, brothers who owned and operated the now-defunct Jensen Farms and who both…

Budget shortchanges Western states

No funds to compensate for tax-exempt federal lands

The Blotter

Wednesday 7:37 a.m. Wires were hanging down in an alley behind Doughworks, 2653 Main Ave. 8:54 a.m. Someone’s computer, bag…

Local Briefs

A new contractor will take over the operation of a VA medical clinic in Durango, Valor Healthcare Inc. will manage…

Utah governor gets flooded with gay-marriage missives

Megan, left, and Candace Berrett hold their daughter Quinn as they speak to supporters of gay marriage during a rally…

Justices seem split on buffer zones at abortion clinics

But a significant piece of data was missing: Chief Justice John Roberts, who almost certainly holds the crucial vote, asked…

Texas drone research center conducting tests

A test drone with a wing span of almost 13 feet flies over a ranch near Sarita, Texas, Wednesday. A…

Obama urges Senate Dems to put off Iran sanctions

President Barack Obama waves after getting off the Marine One helicopter as he walks on the South Lawn of the…

San Francisco crash firefighters saw girl before hitting her

This file photo shows an image from the helmet-mounted video camera of a San Francisco fire battalion chief at the…

Nation/World Briefs

WASHINGTON – A $1.1 trillion spending bill for operating the government until just before next fall’s election steamed through the…

U.N. faults Israeli efforts to stop attacks by settlers

Israel says army troops are under orders to stop so-called “price tag” attacks by Israeli settlers, but critics say the…

A way to cut fracking radioactivity?

The wastewater is created when some of the chemical-laced water used to fracture thick underground rocks flows back out of…

Earth Briefs

Members of La Plata Electric Association who install renewable energy systems (up to 10 kilowatts) in 2014 can receive renewable…

Carbon dioxide pollution up in ’13

More coal burned to generate electricity