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Businesses look for busy summer

and Ranch Show vendors optimistic

Super-rich set new threshold with $100M homes

Rather than settle for garages of antique cars or a museum’s worth of paintings, billionaires are increasingly willing to pay…

Urban sprawl comes with hefty price tag

puts economic cost at $1T a year

Home prices in 20 cities increase at faster pace

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values increased 5 percent from February 2014, the biggest year-to-year gain since August, after rising…

Millennials have little faith in U.S. justice

Poll: Few think protests will help

Is it time to draw line on parental largesse?

Helping adult kids may put your retirement at risk

Santa pelted with snow at ’68 Eagles game dies

‘It was his 15 minutes of fame’

Lincoln’s hometown re-enacts his funeral

150 years have passed since slaying

For last 100 years, celebrities urge animal kindness

The American Humane Association is celebrating 100 years of Be Kind to Animals Week, which draws celebrities, politicians and everyday…

Native Americans offended by Pope

Sainthood of contentious 18th-century Spaniard at issue

Nation & World Briefs

PAUWATHOK, Nepal – At the entrance of this destroyed mountain village, a wooden sign stands, cobbled together from debris of…

Protesters, family celebrate criminal charges filed

6 Baltimore police officers involved in black man’s death are suspended

Engravings set for boulders in John Denver Sanctuary

On Monday, Steve Cronin, a landscape designer with the city of Aspen’s parks department, placed paper with quotes on several…

‘My peers were calling me baby-killer’

1st Lt. George Usinowicz: 1970-71 tour, platoon leader, 65th Engineer Combat Battalion, 25th Infantry Brigade, 4th Transportation Command

‘It leaves you, but it never leaves you’

Capt. Joseph Perino: Late 1969 to Jan. 1971 tour, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, 198th Brigade

‘Many, many people were happy it was over’

1st Lt. John Malarsie: 1968 to early 1969 tour, military intelligence

‘Shock and awfulness’

40 years after the fall of Saigon, La Plata County Vietnam War vets recall their service, experiences

‘You hated to abandon these people’

Warrant Officer Fred Riedinger: 1967-68 tour with the Coast Guard on the cutter Half Moon

‘Why?’ ‘Was this all in vain?’

1st Lt. Judy Dennis: 1965-66 tour, Army Nurse Corps 85th Evacuation Hospital

Flower power

Madison Beamer of Durango and friends add touches to a collaborative painting at the Dandelion Festival on Saturday in Rotary…

Durango to Silverton, hear the whistle blow

train of 2015 summer season left the station

DEVO swaps a different kind of whip

Legislative clock is ticking

3 days left in session, lawmakers hit crunch time

First masters of FLC

School’s 52nd graduate class also is unique