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Health Briefs

Prediabetes information class to be held Mercy Regional Medical Center will host an informational class for people diagnosed with prediabetes from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday in Suite 1...

Recession may have kept women from having kids

Teen birth rate drastically down

Here’s help for breast cancer patients

Improved survival, lack of infertility are possible benefits

Time to cut back on the fries

2 billion people – 30 percent of world – are fat, and no country is immune

FDA warns against indoor tanning for minors

Manufacturers must provide warnings about cancer risks

Measles tally increase being attributed to overseas travelers

Number of reported cases most since 1996

Remembering WWI

Serenity – and beauty – emerge from Flanders Fields battlegrounds

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Over a score of old veterans of the Civil War, in the party some who fought on ‘the other side’ gathered to observe the nation’s Memorial Day. A long parade of automobiles ca...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Jim Lewis of Beaver Creek, was in town to look after a matter that needed looking after.” 75 years ago: “Durango High School will graduate 128 seniors at commencem...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Work of tearing out sidewalks has commenced in North Durango, and this means the bulk of them.” 75 years ago: An advertisement for Maxwell-Davis Furniture Co. read...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “To line La Plata County up with the other metal-mining counties of the state of Colorado, Metal Mining Association recently formed in Denver. La Plata County is the only coun...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “B. F. Simonson, of the Florida Mesa, brought in a coyote hide for the bounty and immediately went across the hall from the treasurers office and spent the proceeds for two hu...