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Rain forces tough choices decisions in Midwest

Many corn farmers in the Midwest are running out of time to plant – or replant – their crops after…

Tipsters: Agency casts wide net

The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency’s need to collect millions of phone records, but critics are calling…

Fla. suspect’s lawyer walks fine line

George Zimmerman, left, talks to Seminole County Investigator Robert Hemmert in Seminole circuit court during a pretrial hearing, in Sanford,…

Man, 28, dies at protest outside Iranian embassy

A senior Lebanese military official says clashes have erupted outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, between protesters opposing Hezbollah’s…

Attorneys slam demolition work in Pa.

Lawyers and consultants walked gingerly on piles of debris, indicating to photographers and videographers what they wanted documented. Meanwhile, other…

Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul this week

The two-day meeting starting Wednesday will focus on stalled cooperation projects, including the resumption of operations at a jointly run…

Running for a cause

Rural areas lure young residents

‘Brain Gain’ changing narrative in small towns

The power of the pedal

2,000 cyclists set to traverse 513 miles riding to help nonprofit organizations

Local teenager is chosen to be Dedicated Dem

Hank Searfus heads for Big Apple to campaign for Christine Quinn

Ex-NSA worker source of spying leak

Whistleblower also claims to have worked for CIA

Intelligence chief defends Internet spying program

For the second time in three days, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper took the rare step of declassifying some…

Privacy? Security? What do we want?

It’s time to choose how much surveillance is OK

‘Out of the closets, into the streets’

In 50 years, huge strides made in gay-rights movement

McLachlan again defends his gun votes

Rep. Mike McLachlan, D-Durango, takes questions during a town hall meeting Saturday morning at Durango Public Library. The meeting became…

Why poultry raised in Durango can’t go to market

Turns out, it really is a chicken and egg problem

Several hot-air balloons crash near Denver

At least 5 were hurt in accidents

2,400 pedalers with ‘Ride the Rockies’ to come through Durango

The route changes every year. The last time it came through Durango was 2010. The tour will head to Pagosa…

Rapid rodeo

Nancy Murbach of Scottsdale, Ariz., said she grew up in California surfing on anything that would float and decided to…

Obama meets with Chinese leader in Calif.

Expresses concerns about cybersecurity

Police: Calif. killings were planned

Santa Monica gunman was ready to fire 1,300 rounds

Nuclear plants closing in weak industry

A surfer rides a wave in front of the San Onofre nuclear power plant Friday in San Onofre, Calif. The…

Dwarfism doesn’t deter Mass. man from athletics

Boston Marathon runner, John Young, left, talks to Paul DiLorenzo at the Merrimack Valley Striders’ dinner and meeting in Lawrence,…

2,500-year-old mummy gets cleaned at Boston hospital

Peter Johnson, director of the Mass General Hospital’s Russell Museum, left, talks with Mimi Leveque, a freelance conservator, about Padihershef,…