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Offer could make waves in Oxbow access plan

Resident offers $600 to kickstart campaign to promote life-jacket use

Dayplanner Sunday

Christmas in Vallecito, 7 a.m.-3 p.m., various locations at Vallecito, www.facebook.com/events/542370165851884. American Legion will host Sunday brunch, 9 a.m.-noon, 878…

Grand dame of Animas Valley, Roberta Barr, dies

“She touched a lot of lives,” said Ruth Shock, whose parents grew up with Barr in the Animas Valley. “She…

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Nation Briefs

Vegas developer selling $7.85M mansion for bitcoin LAS VEGAS – A casino owner-turned-commercial developer is asking $7.85 million to sell…

Long walk home

attempts 35,000-mile journey on foot

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Local Briefs

The La Plata County Board of County Commissioners has extended the deadline to Jan. 3 for interested people to serve…

Christmas comes to remote village

For some of the children, this was the first time they had laid eyes on the man with a white…

Drive to mine uranium in Va. comes to quiet pause

Virginia Uranium Inc. said it will not back the introduction of uranium mining legislation in the 2014 session of the…

With no winner, $425M Mega Millions up to $550M

A man purchases Mega Millions lottery tickets at the Bi Rite market in Olmsted Township, Ohio, on Friday. With no…

Shaken, but too stirred?

Analysis shows Fleming’s James Bond to be a lush

IEDs believed to continue

The bureaucracy that sprung up at the height of fighting in Iraq will be needed for “the inevitable next fight,”…

Limiting damage from videos a new challenge for military

Less than two weeks later, an Afghan soldier killed four French troops, citing the video as a motivation for the…

Study: Raw milk sickens more than widely reported

In a decade in which 21 Minnesotans were sickened in confirmed outbreaks, an additional 530 possible individual cases were logged…

Temperance organization reviving, targeting marijuana

Janet Perkins, president of the Portland, Maine, chapter of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, says the group is not keen on…

Suffering magnified by snow

Snowstorm Alexa bears down hard on Syrians

World Briefs

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Saturday it has successfully sent a monkey into space for a second time, part of…

Tutu will attend Mandela funeral

Changes mind after saying he wouldn’t go because he didn’t feel welcome

Storm headed to Northeast

England could get up to foot of snow

Bells toll in Newtown for school shooting victims

Balloons fly outside a doctor’s office on the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, in Newtown, Conn. on Saturday.…

Can economy help rescue Obama from health act?

law is eating away at president’s standing