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Missing man’s body discovered

foul play suspected

Surge of hiring cuts U.S. jobless rate to 5.9 percent

Illinois Department of Corrections employment recruiter Forrest Ashby, left, speaks to students attending The Foot in the Door Career Fair…

Betty Abernathy

Betty Abernathy She was born April 1, 1930, in Nevada, Mo., one of two children of Vernon and Miriam Robins.…

Valley in Brief

A limited number of vendor spaces are available for the Pine River Seniors holiday arts and crafts fair on Saturday,…

One person dead in early morning crash east of Bayfield

catches fire in semi-truck

Brown wants State House seat back

debating for District 59 representative

State oil and gas task force to meet in Durango

Gov. John Hickenlooper created the task force to look at oil and gas regulations as an alternative to several pro-…

Upper Pine chief testifies at Congress

Proposal would cut Medicare costs, he says

New rehearsal, performance spaces added at BHS

Enhanced security, new gym among new features

Calendar of Events

Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering, 749-2995 FRIDAY, OCT. 3 Bayfield Homecoming, parade at 2 p.m. on Mill Street, football game at…

Bennett Cloud Thompson

Mr. Thompson was born March 2, 1936 in Ignacio, the son of George and Lucy Cloud Thompson.   Bennett attended the…

Bayfield celebrates autumn with Heritage Days

Morlan celebrates 25 years at Region 9

Ed Morlan Laura Lewis Marchino, assistant director, said Morlan is a strategic, “out-of the box,” big picture thinker and collaborator.…

CBI launches new cold case website

unsolved cases in Durango, La Plata County

Dam gets dedicated

Reservoir named for rancher Bobby K. Taylor

Local Briefs

The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will present Erica Olsen at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Methodist Church,…

Justices let gay-marriage cases sit

The Supreme Court Wednesday did not agree to take up the same-sex issue, although experts say they expect the justices…

Hong Kong protesters agree to talks

colony’s leader refuses to step down

Armed groups threaten upheaval in Mideast

Experts: Region returning to warlord era

Cowboy tunes

Gary Allegretto, founder of Harmonikids, demonstrates his skills for St. Columba School fifth-grade students Thursday. Students learned how to play…

Secret Service moving forward in wake of scandal

A member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division looks out from the North Portico of the White House in Washington.Carolyn…

Family confined in Ebola case

Liberia may charge man who brought virus to U.S.

World Briefs

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s parliament gave the government new powers Thursday to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq, and…

Roberts prepares for 2nd term

Unopposed Republican would like to focus on resources and feds