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Firmly admired Durango resident and longtime Fort Lewis College history professor Duane Smith, who died Nov. 26 at 87 years ...

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About 700 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured when a string of powerful tornadoes roared across a 220-mile stretch ...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling ...

Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist ...