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Las Vegas seeks to tame rowdy street performers

LAS VEGAS – A bawdy gauntlet of street performers and tip-seeking costumed characters crowding Las Vegas’ Fremont Street have been driving tourists away, city leaders say as they move toward...

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ruses help keep U.S. ivory sales going

U.S., states proposing new rules to close loopholes

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Hedge-fund magnate gives $11M to Cruz WASHINGTON – It took Ted Cruz three months to raise $10 million for his campaign for president, a springtime sprint of $1,000-per-plate dinne...

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

WHO seeks testing in ’16 Olympic venues RIO DE JANEIRO – The World Health Organization has asked the International Olympic Committee to analyze virus levels in Rio de Janeiro’s Ol...

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California declares a state of emergency

Firefighter killed and hundreds flee

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cecil’s death ‘final straw’

Lion’s researcher dissects the tragedy

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Zimbabwean authorities restrict hunting after lion killing

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe has suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in an area where a lion popular with tourists was killed, and it is investigating the killing of anothe...

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Plane part touches down in France

Suspected Flight 370 wing flap arrives at French facility

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama makes passion play to Congress

Dems still weighing Iran nuclear deal but impressed with outreach

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Feds grapple with whether to call Tenn. attack terrorism

Purple Hearts for victims are at stake after last month’s Chattanooga tragedy

DATE: Aug 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bank bid goes to pot

Marijuana industry hopes for intervention

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge blocks release of recordings by anti-abortion group

SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge on Friday blocked the release of any recordings made at meetings of an abortion providers’ association by an anti-abortion group that previously revealed secre...

DATE: Jul 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday