The recent “Girls Night Out” raising $30,000 for the Womens Resource Center and its programs to empower local women
La Plata County Animal Protection Services finally stepping in to rescue two sorely neglected horses from the Red Mesa area
Hope springing eternal with the appearance of new vegetation and trees sprouting from the charred sites of this summer’s devastating Colorado wildfires
 

The national debt topping the $16 trillion mark last Friday, leading to yet another battle over the debt ceiling, as well as predictions of “financial armageddon” 
 

The emergence of a new, mysterious AIDs-like illness in the U.S. and Asia which has doctors and health officials baffled
 
The Costa Concordia shipwreck, which claimed 32 lives last January, becoming the latest tourist attraction off the Tuscan coast