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Crews search for missing after twisters hit Texas, Arkansas

VAN, Texas – Emergency responders searched through wreckage in parts of Texas and Arkansas early Monday after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing a young couple w...

DATE: May 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Chief: Memo wouldn’t have changed cartoon contest response

GARLAND, Texas – Garland’s police chief says the information the FBI sent local law enforcement on one of two gunmen outside a controversial cartoon contest would not have changed his depart...

DATE: May 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Mississippi mourns two slain officers HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The deaths of Officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate stunned this small city in southern Mississippi. On Sunday morning...

DATE: May 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrats bicker on trade

Obama backing deal to allow companies to sue governments

DATE: May 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pope Francis may get new convert

Raul Castro so impressed, he might return to church

DATE: May 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Petty theft has long history at White House

Guests take anything from placeholders, towels to spoons

DATE: May 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation Briefs

White House hopefuls try to woo crowd GREENVILLE, S.C. – Republicans making their pitch to be the party’s 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing ...

DATE: May 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

World Briefs

Liberia cautiously marks end of Ebola MONROVIA, Liberia – On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time when Liberia would be free from one of t...

DATE: May 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

South Dakota visit makes it 50 states for Obama

WATERTOWN, S.D. – From sea to shining sea, that’s a wrap. Barack Obama met his goal of visiting all 50 states as president with a stop Friday in South Dakota. He’s onl...

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

Jobs report spurs new economic hope

Unemployment rate nears healthy level

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

World Briefs

Saudi Arabia to halt fighting in Yemen PARIS – Saudi Arabia declared a unilateral cease-fire in Yemen that would start May 12 and urged Shiite rebels and their allies to stop figh...

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

Nation Briefs

Court clears FAA rules on cellphones WASHINGTON – Federal aviation officials acted within their authority in allowing airline passengers to use cellphone and other electronics dur...

DATE: May 8, 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