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ATHENS, Greece – A radical left-wing party vowing to end Greece’s painful austerity program won a historic victory in Sunday’s…

Get a telescope, see an asteroid tonight

Earth: Asteroid’s close flyby wont’ be repeated for 200 years

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Technology improves avalanche gear for backcountry skiers

Dayplanner Monday

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.…

Treasure trove revealed, to be sold

... books, documents, periodicals, stamps, titles, tools, toys ...

Death-qualified’ juror search slows marathon, theater cases

“I would sentence him to death,” he said, then added: “I can’t imagine any evidence that would change how I…

Local Briefs

FamilyTime Yoga with Joy Kilpatrick for caregivers with children ages 4 to 10 and families will take place from 10…

IRS taking aim at identity theft

A notice from the Internal Revenue Service saying your return won’t be accepted might be your first clue that your…

Over 65? Check out these tax breaks

Jackie Perlman, principal tax research analyst of the Tax Institute at H&R Block, says taxpayers who are at least 70½…

What’s in a name?

Company seeks rights to names of iconic Grand Canyon lodges

What does $400k get you in Durango?

sales give clues to market’s middle

Rising housing starts cap best year since 2007

A builder works on a new apartment building under construction in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press file photo Housing starts increased…

Bicycle-themed décor comes home

parts become hip furnishings

Study gives thumbs-up to pre-human brains

One key attribute that separates humans from other animals is our opposable thumb, and the way parts of the thumb…

The end is nigh, scientists warn

warming pushing Doomsday Day nearer

Containing Detroit’s housing blight

Skilled-trades workers, taking breaks from their tasks at the factory that produces the electric Chevrolet Volt and other vehicles, dart…

It’s time to start the conversation

relations, our few minorities say, is strained in La Plata County

Giving the gift of music

of discovery for children interested in instruments

Zeppelin, full steam(punk) Snowdown ahead

Dayplanner Sunday

Irish music jam session, 12:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. Informal Tango Practice, 5-7 p.m., Durango…

Local Briefs

Members of the Durango High School Robotics Club, or Durbots, will present and demonstrate the club’s robot to the Rotary…

Nation & World Briefs

MIAMI – A decade-long addiction to oil subsidized by Venezuela may be coming to an end for several Caribbean nations,…

‘High-value’ prisoners reach their families

Detainees allowed to Skype under heavy surveillance

Rockets kill 30 in major Ukrainian city

NATO, U.S. blame Russia, which denies involvement