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LOS ANGELES – Federal bus safety regulators have shut down 52 companies in what they describe as a major nationwide…

December 12, 2013

Interpreter is schizophrenic

Thamsanqa Jantjie says he was seeing angels while translating for public officials during Nelson Mandela’s memorial services Tuesday in Soweto.…

December 12, 2013

Nation & World

Astronomers declare comet dead

The comet, which excited astronomers and the media as it zipped within 730,000 miles of the sun on Thanksgiving Day,…

December 12, 2013

Local News

Local Briefs

The Durango/La Plata Senior Center will host a winter dance from 3 to 5 p.m. today at the center, 2424…

December 12, 2013

Nation & World

Federal agency shuts 52 unsafe bus companies

The companies aren’t just low-cost, fly-by-night carriers – some have transported school bands, Boy Scouts or senior citizens, according to…

December 12, 2013

Nation & World

FCC: Lift ban on in-flight calls. DOT: Not so fast

Although Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler believes his agency should allow airlines to decide whether or not to allow…

December 12, 2013

Daily update

Community Road Work Conditions

Atmos Energyâ€™s work at Main Avenue and 18th Street continues, with a southbound single-lane closure. The lane closure will remain…

December 12, 2013

Daily update

Dayplanner Friday

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.…

December 12, 2013

Daily update

Community Menus

Durango/La Plata Senior Center: Chicken fried steak, whipped potatoes, country gravy, broccoli and cheese, wheat roll and oranges. Durango School…

December 12, 2013

Local News

Fort Lewis tuition waiver has backers

sought for tuition hikes

December 11, 2013

Local News

Simplifying Christmas

Practicing zero waste easier on wallets and environment

December 11, 2013

Regional News

Pot retailers scramble to sell by January ’14

The state’s 160 hopeful pot shops are so mired in red tape and confusion that no one knows yet when…

December 11, 2013

Local News

Dalton Ranch Golf Club considers sale

golfer’s management group makes offer

December 11, 2013

Local News

A little help for St. Nick

Employees of Holloman Construction of Odessa, Texas, and Custom Automated Controls, two contractors at the Durango-area Williams natural gas processing…

December 11, 2013

Local News

The Blotter

Wednesday 7:24 a.m. A drunken man was passed out near the Redbox in front of south City Market, 6 Town…

December 11, 2013

Regional News

Mentally ill won’t be put in solitary confinement

Colorado aims to reduce ‘administrative segregation’

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Senate poised for talkathon over Obama nominees

Federal Housing Finance Authority Director nominee Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., listens as President Barack Obama announces his nomination to head…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Cooling pump on space station shuts down

In this frame grab from video provided by NASA, two Russian flight engineers perform maintenance on the International Space Station…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Russia may answer conventional attack with nuclear weapons

A Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

NEW YORK – Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church’s…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

World Briefs

BEIRUT – The U.S. and Britain said Wednesday they were suspending deliveries to rebels in northern Syria of nonlethal aid…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Health-care signups still lagging

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking her department’s inspector general to investigate her department’s management and contracting…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

Handshake GOP for Castro comments

“There used to be a pretty important principle that originated in the Republican Party, I believe, that partisan politics should…

December 11, 2013

Nation & World

U.S. general: Afghan pullout could reverse gains

But Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. has no plans to reopen…

December 11, 2013