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Mineral-rights owners may be paid

Counties with fracking bans would need to compensate

The Blotter

Wednesday 12:43 a.m. Four people were seen fighting behind J. Bo’s Pizza & Rib Co., 1301 Florida Road. Tuesday 12:46…

Dayplanner Thursday

Durango High Noon Rotary meeting, noon, DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, www.durangohighnoonrotary.com. Kiwanis Club of Durango meeting, noon, Durango…

Watch out for scammers while holiday shopping

Everything from fake websites to gift-card fraud used as ploys

BID seeks feedback for Sidewalk Vending Days

During Sidewalk Vending Days, local merchants will be able to set up shop on the sidewalk in front of their…

Durango wins Top Western Town

Corey Condiotti, 11, has his costume adjusted before an old west photo at Thru the Lens on Main Avenue in…

Tipton, Bennet to join Hermosa celebration

The event, scheduled from noon to 1 p.m., will include a slide show, comments from Bennet and Tipton, refreshments donated…

Coat and blanket drive underway

Zach Graveson, left, and Mike Testa of Advantage Physical Therapy and Wellness drop off 250 winter coats at the Durango…

‘Wet towel’ is no drencher

Juans at 66% of average snow-water equivalent

Mixed emotions vex ‘Pedro Pan’ generation after Cuba move

A bus filled with excited Cubans passes through the Vedado section of Havana, Cuba. After a half-century of Cold War…

10 Barrel Brewing sells – or sells out – to InBev

brew fans fall on both sides of the fence

Business Briefs

The Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center and First SouthWest Bank will sponsor a “Starting Your Business” workshop from 8…

Paying for a good scare

entrepreneurs, including an FLC student, begin an outdoor haunted house

Aussie leader: System failed to track siege gunman

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his wife, Margie, pay their respects to the victims of the siege in Martin…

Filling in Durango

construction drifts toward downtown area, land is becoming scarce, lots becoming more expensive

Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill into law

President Barack Obama leaves Marine One helicopter after returning to the White House from a trip to New Jersey to…

Immigration debate awaits new Congress

say GOP must act on issue

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profiling by the government…

Bush shakes up race for presidency

Ex-governor says he will ‘explore’ running

Rain could dampen conservation efforts

Officials: California drought far from over

World Briefs

TOKYO — North Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate the CIA’s “brutal medieval” treatment of terrorism suspects…

TABOR may keep money from Colorado schools

‘This is like the Grinch ... stealing the roof off the schools’

Spreading good cheer

Bill may lead to higher base wages

association head: Increased minimums could ax some jobs