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Cobalt-60 finally removed from Mexican cornfield

Juan Eibenschutz, director general of the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, said a robot was used to scoop…

Big data has role in holiday-shopping season

Holiday shoppers are being monitored more than ever this year, as retailers employ more and more technology to try to…

Business Briefs

Dr. Kirsten “Kicki” Searfus recently purchased Mountain View Family Healthcare from Dr. Megan Lewis Grotefond, who has relocated out of…

Stocks dip after reaching record

The market has hit several all-time highs in recent months, but with the holiday season and end of the year…

Helium to rise in Dolores County

Operations expected to begin in April 2015

European probe on course for comet rendezvous

An artist’s rendering shows the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe in space. The space agency hopes to launch a…

Lawmakers push to set record straight on Nazi atrocity

That is starting to change. Last year, black Marines who served during World War II, named Montford Point Marines after…

World Briefs

BANGKOK — The head of Thailand’s protest movement on Tuesday extended his extraordinary claims to holding power over government activities,…

Nation Briefs

BOSTON – Democrat Katherine Clark has defeated three opponents to win a special election to fill a vacant Massachusetts congressional…

Gunmen kill two French troopers

French President Francois Hollande says deploying French troops to the Central African Republic is necessary to help the country avoid…

Egypt’s Moussa defends draft charter

Amr Moussa, the chairman of Egypt’s 50-member panel tasked with amending its Islamist-drafted constitution, says he believes the group’s proposed…

Justices hear environmental case

members agree cross-border pollution issue is complex, tough

Kerry defends Iranian deal

of new sanctions draws fire from House members

Education Briefs

The Durango Foundation for Educational Excellence is celebrating its 30th birthday by getting a new name – Durango Education Foundation…

Bipartisan negotiators reach modest budget pact

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., say a tentative agreement on…

County commissioners pass $71 million budget

Employees will not receive raises in 2014

Thieves target La Plata County mailboxes

Residents asked to be on lookout

Bipartisan fix advances for Medicare doctors’ pay

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. says Congress needs to come up with a permanent fix to Medicare…

Obama hails Mandela’s life

President Barrack Obama urged Africans and young people around the world to make Nelson Mandela’s “life work your own” during…

James Ranch beef involved in recall

Range company to blame

Snowdown video, photos, articles and more.

Community Road Work Conditions

Colorado Highway 145 northbound/southbound on Lizard Head Pass (milemarker 57.6). Through May 2014 24 hours a day there will be…

Dayplanner Wednesday

Greg Ryder, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150. Joel Racheff, 6 p.m., 6512, 128 E. College Drive,…

Task force scrutinizes vaccine exemption

calls for education for parents who opt out