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Residents stand by prison workers

Site of jail break is lifeblood of New York town

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Brief

Mexican president expects to win vote MEXICO CITY – Despite widespread disillusionment with his government, President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday emerged from midterm elections w...

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officer’s dismissal sought

Witness: Pool incident ‘not another Ferguson’

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Test of parachute for Mars flight fails HONOLULU – A parachute failed to inflate during a NASA test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft – and eventually astronauts – o...

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Detained reporter’s mother said her son ‘is very tired’

Iran is trying journalist on spy charges

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama insists his health-care plan ‘is working’

ELMAU, Germany – With a crucial legal decision looming, President Barack Obama said Monday the Supreme Court should not even have considered the latest challenge to his signature health-care...

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP seeks more logging

Lawmakers say cuts would help heal forests

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Industrial nations vow to ‘decarbonize’

But activists are unhappy with far-off goal

DATE: Jun 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Governor: Prison break took days DANNEMORA, N.Y. – Two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break thr...

DATE: Jun 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Friends seek bikers’ release from Waco jail

Police still investigating shootout that killed nine

DATE: Jun 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Abortions are down in most states

More effective contraceptives cited as reason

DATE: Jun 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

EU official: Ultimatum not given to Greece ELMAU, Germany – A top European Union official said Sunday that Greece’s creditors didn’t deliver a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to end...

DATE: Jun 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

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