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A Mancos teen accused of striking an ex-girlfriend in the head with a hammer is likely to escape a prison sentence if he completes a three-year youth offender program. In court Jan. 20, Aus...

President Barack Obama largely stuck to the facts in his State of the Union address, but spun his accomplishments. Obama made the inflated claim, "More than half of manufacturing executive...

I wondered what was taking place in the Mancos Valley the week I was born - the last week of July 1934. Your attention is invited to the following amendment to the U.S. postal laws - No ale...

Well, there's no snow and no rain, mostly no water. How come we have so much mud? Because I'm pretty short, I tend to slide out of the car, and then I've got a mud stain on all my pants. Ah...

Eighty-two science fair projects lined tables at the Mancos Middle School last week for inspection by students and judges. "A lot of kids today are nervous. They worked really hard on their...

The past two years have been a whirlwind for 19-year-old Mancos resident Easton LaChappelle. He's given a TED talk, landed a job with NASA, met the president, and last February, founded ro...

WASHINGTON – President Obama has declared the economic crisis over – and for the United States, maybe it seems that way. But most other countries, not so much. Their recoveries are faltering. The obvi...

Ronald Reagan may not have known he was setting precedent when he first declared in 1983 that “the state of our union is strong,” but that has been the adjective of choice for each of his successors i...