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Electrical issues stall NSA data center opening

Electrical failures are complicating the opening of a sprawling new data storage center for the National Security Agency in Bluffdale,…

Colo. highway advocates present plan to Legislature to increase sales tax

The meeting made clear that there’s plenty of work to do before voters will be willing to accept a tax…

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Denver parents accused of keeping four boys in filth

The parents, Wayne Sperling and Lorinda Bailey, appeared in court Tuesday on felony child-abuse charges. Authorities say their four boys,…

Fighting childhood poverty

Crosses Project redux at FLC

Missing in Rio on the rise; Brazil police accused

Activists and residents of Rio de Janeiro’s slums say the the number of missing people is increasing, and many say…

U.N. and chemical watchdog to destroy Syrian weapons

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council obtained by The Associated Press that the goal…

Early snow kills thousands of cattle in South Dakota

Chris Huber/Associated Press<br><br>Roads and streets were being reopened Monday after a record-breaking snow storm hit South Dakota over the weekend.…

SEAL attack target behind Kenya plots

Navy SEALs targeted al-Shabab fighters in Somalia during a weekend raid in Somalia. The SEAL team was trying to capture…

3 share Nobel Prize in medicine

The Nobel Prize for medicine will be shared by Americans James Rothman, Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Sudhof for…

U.S. expects to sign pact with Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants to convene a council of elders to review and accept any agreement with the United…

High court weighs limits on campaign contributions

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is one of the petitioners asking the Supreme Court to remove restrictions on…

Insurers confident health-plan websites will succeed

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says the Obama administration didn’t have enough time to test the federal…

Israeli lawmakers pay rare visit to Ramallah

Israeli MP Labour Party member Hilik Bar, left, visits Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to try to help encourage peace talks…

Furnace smokes arts center

apparent damage done

White House open to short-term hike in debt limit

President Barack Obama thanks workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington during a visit to the agency’s headquarters…

Judge’s decision will determine BP’s fine for oil spill

On Monday, more than three years later, clips from the spill cam were projected on a screen in a New…

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No impact seen on ski season from furloughs

Michael Berry, spokesman for the National Ski Areas Association, said most expansion projects and construction that require federal approval have…

Debt limit becoming focus of crisis

calls for immediate vote, but negotiations on shutdown in a deadlock

Budget fight offers crash course on Congress

The rancorous budget fight offers a crash course in the arcane ways and language of Congress that sometimes defy logic.…

High court likely to tilt further right

finishing term, justices to hear several social-issue cases

What’s the big idea?

many, tiny houses let them live freely, pragmatically

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Auditors slam bonuses for lottery staff

Bonuses from the Colorado Lottery rapidly increased from $68,000 in 2009 to $394,000 last year for about 30 sales staff,…

Animas Museum awarded hefty grant

is to use $130,000 to preserve collections and documentation