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And the West is History

100 years ago: “The stork ran rings around the grim reaper in Durango during 1913. By a score of 97 to 81 the births won over the deaths.” 75 years ago: “Milo M. Webb, American en...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mike Perino is in from the Florida Mesa making arrangements to have a big crowd out to his new dance establishment the latter part of the week.” 75 years ago: “Pet...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “With a territory running east to Chama, north to Telluride and Ouray, and indefinitely to the west and south, a branch house of the Brinkley-Douglass Fruit Company of Pueblo ...

Health Briefs

Doctor offers women’s wellness services Four Corners Laser & Aesthetics announces that Dr. Christopher Roach is offering women’s wellness and health visits. His servic...

Smoking fight has saved 8 million

Tobacco-control efforts curtail use, new study says

Positive thinking can enhance migraine drug’s effectiveness

WASHINGTON – Talk about mind over matter: A quirky new study suggests patients’ expectations can make a big difference in how they feel after treatment for a migraine. Boston rese...

Does age, experience matter?

Learning curve has biggest influence in ultrarunning

Most young teens do not exercise every day

CHICAGO – Young teens aren’t exactly embracing the government’s Let’s Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest. Only 1 in 4 U.S. kids ages 12 to 15 meet the recommendations – ...

Drink much? Doctors rarely ask

CDC pushes for regular screening and counseling

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Charles Riffey, of Thompson’s Park, a man about 28 years old was adjudged insane at a lunacy hearing in the county court and will be taken to Pueblo by Sheriff Fassbinder for...

At former Colorado Springs hospital, the walls do talk

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Sometimes, the walls can talk. Thousands of notes to God, surgeons and dead family members, scribbled on scraps of paper and then slid into the cracks betw...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “That a pay streak equal to any struck in this section since the Idaho and May Day discoveries is indicated by a specimen of ore brought to the city by Dan Cason from the Broo...