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BES kids pick top stocks

BES students in the Stock Market Experience are Jamaica Garza, Aidyn Abdallah-Boehm, Calen Donelan, Keyton Cugnini, Kobe Prior, Tyler Callaway…

Co-pilot ‘very happy’ with Germanwings job

Lubitz’s club colleague denies suicide

Senate approves Bennet’s bill

Democrats pushing climate change

Environmental groups sue over Wolf Creek objections

Federal court challenge in the works

Dayplanner Friday

Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385.…

Student-testing bill clears hurdle

Parents could excuse kids from assessments

Growing into a recreational business

Marijuana operations are expanding in La Plata County

The Blotter

thursDAY 12:02 a.m. An arrest for an open container was made in the 600 block of Main Avenue. 5:37 a.m.…

Colorado transgender bill moves forward

would be easier to change gender on birth certificate

Durango schools fill bus-driver ranks

Victor Figueroa, director of transportation with Durango 9-R School District, took some routes himself during a bus driver shortage. The…

Changing of the guard (and season)

Man wanted for Walmart computer theft

Durango police are looking for a heavy-set man in connection with the theft. Police say the man, wearing a gray…

Census: Florida city tops list of fastest-growing areas

Vacationers enjoy the beach in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the second-fasting growing metropolitan area in the nation between July 2013 and…

Alone at controls, co-pilot sought to ‘destroy’ the plane

Travelers observe a minute of silence to remember the plane crash victims as they queue at the airport in Duesseldorf…

Nation & World Briefs

NEW YORK – An apparent gas explosion leveled an apartment building, largely destroyed another and launched rubble and shards of…

Celebrate Grace Erikson’s centennial

Erikson Members of the Florida Mesa Elementary School fifth-grade class of 1960 are throwing a 100th birthday party for their…

Nation & World Briefs

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who slipped away from his patrol base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held…

GOP-controlled House passes budget to erase deficits

Final passage, 228-199, came shortly after Republicans bumped up recommended defense spending to levels proposed by President Barack Obama. Much…

Tipton gives signature for fed land payment

Tipton The letter – signed by U.S. Reps. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, Diana DeGette, Jared Polis, Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn, Mike…

Mountain Middle plans expansion

3 to 5 could open in new building

Earth Briefs

Chimney Rock National Monument Volunteer Training Days will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 10-11 at the…

Your shower is devouring energy, water

Here’s what you can do about it

As currents slow, seas may rise

Stream moves more water than all of world’s rivers

For pioneer, hemp pays

Springfield farmer answers questions about sales, seeds