Nation & World
Nation Briefs
NEW ORLEANS – A handcuffed prisoner in a moving police cruiser somehow managed to grab a gun, fatally shoot the officer at the wheel and escape from the vehicle, which…
Local Briefs
Local News
Local Briefs
City of Durango crews will perform street light maintenance from 10 a.m. to noon Monday in the southbound lane of Florida Road, starting from East Animas Road (County Road 250)…
Religion
Religion Briefs
Mary Ocken will give a talk called “The Inner Journey Home” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive. This will be an…
Local News
Local Briefs
Wolfwood Refuge will return to Pagosa Springs from 1 to 6 p.m. June 27 at Wolfe Brewing Co., 2045 Eagle Drive. The refuge originated in Pagosa Springs many years ago.…
Nation & World
World Briefs
ISTANBUL – WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release…
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Nation Briefs
WASHINGTON – Unemployment rates rose in 25 U.S. states last month, driven higher in many cases by more people who began looking for work but didn’t immediately find jobs. Colorado…
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Nation & World Briefs
NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rallied Thursday, with the Nasdaq composite index closing at a record, a day after the Federal Reserve signaled it will continue to support the economy…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Tickets for “On Fire!,” the San Juan Symphony’s 2015-16 season, will go on sale Monday. This 30th anniversary season will feature a search for a new music director to be…
Local News
Local Briefs
The lap pool at the Durango Community Recreation Center will close to the public at 6 p.m. Friday and remain closed until 5:30 a.m. Monday for the Durango Swim Team…
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Local Briefs
Ignacio Community Library has been selected to receive a competitive Latino Americans: 500 Years of History grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The…
Nation & World
World Brief
ATHENS, Greece – Greece and its creditors publicly blamed one another for an impasse in bailout talks Wednesday, on the eve of a eurozone finance ministers’ meeting billed as key…
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Nation Briefs
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Lightning sparked nearly a dozen new wildfires in Alaska as firefighters struggled Wednesday to keep up with two major fires threatening rural highway communities. Although firefighters are…
Good Earth
Earth Briefs
The Columbine Ranger District reports that the composting vault for the toilet at the upper parking lot at Andrews Lake on Molas Pass has been heavily damaged by rodents. The…
Health
Health Briefs
Eileen Wasserbach is the new chairwoman of the Community Health Action Coalition board. Wasserbach, who also is the executive director of Southern Ute Community Action Programs, has served on the…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Tuesday reaffirmed a ban against torturing detainees and moved ahead on a more than $600 billion defense policy bill that is entangled in a broader…
Education
Education Briefs
The Bayfield Knowledge Bowl Team of Ben Young, Tierzah Smith, Mitchell McCloskey, Henry Walters, Michael Fusco and coach Tara Henderson won the Southwest Colorado Regional Knowledge Bowl meet in March…
Local News
Local Briefs
A property-tax exemption will be available for the tax year 2015, affecting taxes payable in 2016 for qualifying seniors and disabled veterans, and surviving spouses of people who previously qualified.…
Business
Business Briefs
The La Plata Conservation District, in service to local landowners, recently elected its seventh supervisor to the board of directors, Terry Jefferies. Jefferies is a loan officer with American AgCredit…
Nation & World
World Brief
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran launched its first official matchmaking website on Monday in a bid to encourage millions of singles to marry, officials said, insisting it is not a dating…
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Nation Briefs
DALLAS – The historic rainfall that inundated Texas in May continues to leave the soil saturated and rivers engorged, but a scientist involved in a NASA-funded research project says it…
Local News
Local Briefs
A mindful parenting class taught by Rachel Turiel and Joy Kilpatrick will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Sun Room of Inhabit, 1970 East Third Ave.,…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
DANNEMORA, N.Y. – Two convicted murderers who used power tools to cut their way out of a prison near the Canadian border could be nearby or “in Mexico by now,”…
Local News
Local Briefs
The Pagosa Ranger District reports that the Mosca Road (Forest Road 631) has been cleared of debris, and is open for 9.5 miles heading toward the Sand Creek Gravel Pit…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
DALLAS – A man planted pipe bombs outside Dallas’ police headquarters early Saturday before opening fire on the building and officers who tried to stop him, spraying the building and…
Local News
Local Briefs
Hour Exchange La Plata (HELP), the local time bank, invites the public to a free introductory talk at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Holly House, 831 E. 31st St. A…
Religion
Religion briefs
R. Carlos Nakai will perform in concert to benefit Tara Mandala at 8 p.m. July 11 at Tara Mandala Retreat Center, 4000 United States Forest Service Road 649 in Pagosa…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
DANNEMORA, N.Y. – A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape, state police said Friday. Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell…
Nation & World
World Briefs
A canal worker looks over a railing as water from the Atlantic begins to flood the Gatun flood chambers that will provide water to the new set of locks on…
Local News
Local Briefs
Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will celebrate the summer solstice at 6 a.m. June 21. At the dawn of the summer solstice, a spiral of sunlight makes…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
WASHINGTON – The IRS says it’s working with states and companies to fight identity theft. The problem has affected thousands of taxpayers and cost the government billions of dollars because…