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Envoys back proposal for new Mideast talks PARIS – Top diplomats from around the world on Friday endorsed France’s efforts to revive long-dormant Mideast peace talks aimed at “fully ending” ...

DATE: Jun 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Protesters punch, throw eggs at Trump supporters in San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Donald Trump supporters leaving the presidential candidate’s rally in San Jose were pounced on by protesters, some of whom threw punches and eggs. A dozen or ...

DATE: Jun 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. gains just 38K jobs, fewest in 5 years; rate at 4.7 percent

WASHINGTON – U.S. employers drastically slowed their hiring in May, adding just 38,000 jobs, the fewest in more than five years and a sign of concern after the economy barely grew in the fir...

DATE: Jun 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

5 dead, 4 missing after Army truck swept away in Texas flood

FORT HOOD, Texas – Five soldiers were killed and four were missing after an Army troop carrier was washed from a low-water crossing and overturned Thursday in a rain-swollen creek at Fort Ho...

DATE: Jun 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Paul Ryan says he’ll be voting for Trump JANESVILLE, Wis. – House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday, ending an extraordinary public split between the GOP’s presumptive pres...

DATE: Jun 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Clinton: Trump ‘dangerously incoherent,’ ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president

Trump counters with critical tweets

DATE: Jun 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama warns against isolationism’s ‘false comfort’

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – President Barack Obama implored the next generation of U.S. military leaders Thursday not to give in to isolationism or pull back from U.S. leadership in the world...

DATE: Jun 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UCLA shooter’s ‘kill list’ had wife, 2 profs on it

Authorities think shooter unable to find other professor targeted

DATE: Jun 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Police release 911 tape in zoo incident CINCINNATI – Confusion and panic set in after a 3-year-old boy plunged into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit, according to 911 recordings released...

DATE: Jun 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

$12 billion tunnel under the Alps sets record

17-year Swiss project will ease traffic, cut pollution in Europe

DATE: Jun 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Children’s asylum rates vary by region

Attorneys say process shouldn’t be ‘crapshoot’

DATE: Jun 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

2 dead in murder-suicide at UCLA

LOS ANGELES – A murder-suicide at a UCLA engineering building Wednesday drew hundreds of heavily armed officers who swarmed the sprawling Los Angeles campus, where students close to summer b...

DATE: Jun 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sidney Andrew easily won Iron Horse Bicycle Classic women’s pro road race

Photos: IHBC men’s pro road raceCobe Freeburn won Iron Horse Bicycle Classic men’s pro road race on Saturday

Cobe Freeburn won Iron Horse Bicycle Classic men’s pro road race on Saturday

Photos: IHBC citizens rideIron Horse Bicycle Classic citizens ride takes off to Silverton

Iron Horse Bicycle Classic citizens ride takes off to Silverton

Photos: DHS graduationDurango High School graduated 366 seniors on Friday evening

Durango High School graduated 366 seniors on Friday evening

The Durango Police Department chased and captured a pet kangaroo on Monday near East Second Avenue a...

Photos: A colorful carnival

Photos: DHS girls soccer advancesDemons defeat Riverdale Ridge 1-0 in the second round of playoffs

Demons defeat Riverdale Ridge 1-0 in the second round of playoffs

About a dozen cutbow trout thrown from a Colorado Parks and Wildlife truck

Durango High School baseball defeats Montrose 8-4 on Saturday