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Louisiana hostage-taker wrote about anger over breakup

A suspected gunman took three people hostage in the Tensas State Bank branch in St. Joseph, La., Tuesday. The 20-year-old…

Egypt police storm protesters’ camps

Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader in the interim government, resigned in protest over…

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After the storm

Randy Dunton, left, and Bret Cochrane, with La Plata Electric Association, position a new power pole near the Animas City…

That banner still flies

Dale Garland, left, a teacher at Durango High School, is assisted by, from left, custodian Chris Gregory, Navy Capt.. Melinda…

An eye on high-hazard dams

Electra Lake gets a state fix, but money is tight

Pot farm pollution in Calif. rampant

Agency won’t place its staff members in path of cartels

Police in pursuit of stabbing suspect after fight at Moe’s

One man is sent to Mercy hospital with ‘pretty serious’ wound to neck

District 9-R touts positive test scores

Bayfield results ‘mixed;’ Ignacio’s high school up

Tracking owls electronically

Wyoming biologists hope to save nests from logging

Report: Climate change affects coast

California is feeling the effects of climate change, a new report says.Associated Press file photo That’s just a snapshot of…

Woman to face attempted murder charges

Police arrive at 14th Street house after neighbor reports odor of gas

Efforts for small-scale hydropower become law

Cutting red tape opens opportunity for emissions-free power

Hickenlooper defends record as 2014 race begins

Guv’s foes cite a range of complaints

College students end up with more bills than just tuition

The price of housing and food trumps tuition costs for students who attend two- and four-year public universities in their…

Former County Extension Office director dies

Phyllis Lee spent 44 years in service

Many legal millstones weigh down JPMorgan

In fact, the nation’s largest bank has a long list of legal challenges beyond the $6 billion trading loss with…

Obamacare aid planned for buyers

Federal tax credits will be made available

Retail sales post July increase

Consumer spending 70% of U.S. activity

Becoming ‘Steve Jobs’

Actor Ashton Kutcher sheds his goofy persona to play Apple co-founder for biographic movie

Egypt: Pro-Morsi vigil takes on permanent look

The protest camps filled with supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi are taking on a very permanent look, with…

Shining Path bruised, but far from defeated, analysts say

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has tentatively identified two bodies as “Comrade Gabriel,” or Marco Antonio Quispe Palomino, and “Comrade Alipio”…

U.S. willing to engage North Korea on detained American

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf would not say whether the U.S. might send a high-level official to Pyongyang to seek…

Nuclear missile force fails key security test

The 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., which is in charge of maintaining and operating 150 Minutemen…