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Nation Briefs

Walker, Christie court donors at Vegas gathering LAS VEGAS – Two of the nation’s highest-profile Republican governors on Saturday called…

Health-law legacy eludes Obama

Americans want it fixed, not scrapped

Many still wary of water months after W.Va. spill

Residents don’t trust they will be notified if another happens

Regional News

State targets high-volume pot patients

Wolkdu1-i-syn The head of the state Health Department, Dr. Larry Wolk, announced Friday that those so-called “high volume” patients and…

‘At some point, we have to expect the worst’

Finding victims of mudslide could go on a long time

World Briefs

CAIRO – A court in Egypt’s second-largest city sentenced two supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death on Saturday…

Flurry of diplomacy raises hopes in Ukraine

Sec. Kerry to meet with Russia’s Lavrov today

Ugandan cleric ministers to gays

Despite new law, reverend ‘called to serve all people’

And the West is History

“Members of Needham school tournament-winning team are, left to right rear, McNeal, Wong, Parks, Jones, Zook, Wallace and Hansen. Center…

Local Briefs

Three finalists have been selected for an original three-dimensional sculpture to be installed in the traffic island as part of…

Magnitude-5.1 earthquake shakes Los Angeles

A car was overturned on a highway in the Carbon Canyon area of Brea, Calif., on Friday night after hitting…

Study: Young workers change jobs frequently

Since 1997, the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping tabs on about 9,000 young men and women born…

Pets suffer from domestic violence

shelters taking them in

Iranian coffee lovers flock to new cafes

The number of cafes being closed in Iran because they violate “Islamic dignities” has dropped in recent months, suggesting that…

Toilet tech fair tackles global sanitation woes

These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world’s 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would…

Unlikely soda to show up at ballpark

As in soda pop. The Oakland A’s, a team widely known for thumbing its nose at conventions, will do it…

Regional News

Oil boom leads to population boom

That mirrors a national trend in which most of the fastest-growing places are in oil and gas boom areas, according…

Dayplanner Saturday

Motorcycle Expo & Swap Meet, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. today and from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday , La Plata County Fairgrounds,…

Playtime for Peppy

Jacquie Bishop trains her 5-year-old quarter horse, Peppy, for barrel racing and pole bending once or twice a week at…

Mercury moves closer to public stock offering

Mercury on Friday filed an S-1 registration statement with the commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class…

Regional News

Here’s a small glimpse of 950,000 jars of peanut butter

Mexico landfill got a close look as Costco rejects about 25 tons

Durango couple photographs secret wedding

So when NBC’s “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie planned to marry fiance Mike Feldman in a secret ceremony in Tucson,…

The Blotter

Friday 12:24 a.m. A caller reporter a noise disturbance in the 300 block of East Fourth Ave. The caller’s neighbor…