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Budget woes loom over Upper Pine

Outside, inside forces prompt district to seek mill-levy increase

July 6, 2013

Business

Bernanke exit could perturb markets

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to leave his position when his term is up in January. That raises…

July 6, 2013

Business

Study: Many in Summit burdened by cost of living

Nearly 40 percent of households are burdened by the cost of living, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of…

July 6, 2013

Business

Seniors fight back against robocalls

I wrote about this particularly annoying scam in early June, and I’ve been taken aback by how many seniors are…

July 6, 2013

Business

Tourism touters take on fire fears

Climate change, past blazes prompts industry to develop public-relations strategies

July 6, 2013

Business

Best cars for teens are big, slow and ugly

attention to safety features

July 6, 2013

$Fervent foes fight fracking for life$

Nation & World

Fervent foes fight fracking for life

Vera Scroggins, an independent videographer, is among a determined group of anti-fracking activists who have helped keep shale-gas development out…

July 6, 2013

Regional News

Painstaking care, honor for 19 fallen firefighters

Prescott in silence for men who died in prime of life

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

Airliner crashes at Calif. airport

from South Korea on its way to San Francisco

July 6, 2013

Local News

Email sent with school ‘top 10’ list

On March 27, Fuschetto sent an email entitled, “MYRA Mains School!!!” to the Colorado Department of Education’s Kristin Lortie and…

July 6, 2013

Local News

Finding of bodies upsets Ignacio school construction

26 uncovered – some century-old remains of Native Americans

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

Colo. fuels technician tests foliage to determine fire danger, behavior

Whitworth, the lead fuels technician for Wildfire Mitigation with the Colorado Springs Fire Department, collects twigs, leaves and other fuel…

July 6, 2013

Regional News

Colorado Springs native was 1960s roller derby queen

That was the mid-1960s, and the derby was in its heyday. “Roller derby had started during the Depression, in the…

July 6, 2013

Regional News

Crime makes comeback on campaign trail

Republicans target Dems on safety issue

July 6, 2013

Local News

Cowboy up and away

Zach Thompson and his friends visited the swingset at Fassbinder Park on an overcast Saturday afternoon. A chance of thunderstorms…

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

BLM OKs natural-gas pipeline project

The Bureau of Land Management’s approval of the Western Expansion Pipeline III project comes just a week after President Barack…

July 6, 2013

Local News

Do beetle-killed forests burn faster?

all experts agree

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

Photo of firefighters stirs controversy

The image appears to show the scene of where the 19 firefighters died, after an honor guard draped the body…

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

Health-care law unknowns looming

Measure to be judged on 3 main points

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

On tour, Giffords’ actions speak on gun control

Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords greets Jackie Barden, right, mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Barden,…

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

Concerns rise about background checks

A worker dusts a floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., near Washington. Edward Snowden, who is…

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

U.S. students flee Egypt

Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile River bridge toward Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, threatening a showdown…

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

Employers scramble to provide benefits amid same-sex law

FILE – In this March 27, 2013 file photo, demonstrators hold flags and chant in front of the Supreme Court…

July 6, 2013

Nation & World

‘Evil spirit’ scam plagues NYC

This undated image provided by the New York City Police Department shows a poster that has been displayed in Chinatown…

July 6, 2013