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Last drugs standing: Key Alzheimer results coming
July 11, 2012 4:50 PM
We're about to find out if there will be a way anytime soon to slow the course of Alzheimer's disease. Results are due within a month or so from key studies of two drugs that aim to clear the sticky plaque gumming up patients' brains. A pivotal study of a... more » -
Obama to attend the third tribal leaders conference
December 2, 2011 7:50 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is likely to get a good reception when he meets for the third time with leaders of Native American tribes in Washington. He's been getting high praise from Native Americans for breaking through a logjam of inaction on issues that affect their nations. ... more » -
Mormon church's spring conference continues
April 3, 2011 12:13 PM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Faithful Mormons will gather to hear words of inspiration from their leaders Sunday, the second day of their church's semiannual general conference. The two-day conference draws more than 100,000 to the four-block downtown Salt Lake City campus of The Church of Jesus Christ of... more » -
NRCS faces new challenges including climate change
February 5, 2011 1:52 PM
DENVER (AP) - The Dust Bowl and preventing soil erosion were foremost in the minds of the early Natural Resources Conservation Service, formed in 1935 as a New Deal agency. Today NRCS, which falls under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is using science to help private landowners conserve all... more » -
Prairie dog conference scheduled in Poncha Springs
November 17, 2010 3:12 PM
Protecting prairie dogs will be the topic of a meeting in Poncha Springs on December 2 at the Chaffee County Fairgrounds. "The Division of Wildlife has been inventorying Gunnison's prairie dog colonies and establishing local management plans for more than a year now," said DOW biologist Ed Schmal. "This... more » -
Pueblo jail allows video visits
October 26, 2010 1:32 PM
The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office is now allowing prisoners to visit with relatives using an internet video link. Two years ago, the Pueblo County Jail installed a state of the art, internet based, video visitation system from a Texas company called VizVox. It became apparent the system could be... more » -
Trinidad Junior College student chosen for White House event
September 28, 2010 2:16 PM
Five students have been selected to participate in the October 5 Community in Washington. One of those students is Jeremy Begley, who graduated as valedictorian in May from Trinidad State Junior College. Begley is now attending CSU- Fort Collins. The Community College summit will be hosted by Dr. Jill... more » -
Women in blue build skills at Pueblo conference
September 21, 2010 7:26 PM
Women in law enforcement are getting some valuable training in Pueblo this week. It's called the Rocky Mountain Women in Law Enforcement conference. On Tuesday a group of about 7 women learned how to defend themselves from an attacker with a knife. The conference aims to build their confidence and... more » -
2 Supreme Court justices to speak in Colorado Springs
August 23, 2010 10:42 AM
Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor are scheduled to attend a judicial conference in Colorado Springs next weekend. About 800 judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit are expected at the conference. It's closed to the public, but C-SPAN is scheduled to broadcast a talk by Ginsburg... more » -
Study: A heart attack shouldn't kill your sex life
May 21, 2010 9:00 AM
A new study finds that many heart attack survivors are afraid to resume having sex, and few of them are talking about this with their doctors. Researchers found that less than half of men and only about a third of the women in the study got advice on this... more » -
Conference spotlights climate change, carnivores
November 18, 2009 7:59 AM
An official with a national wildlife group says the effect of climate change on wildlife and their habitat looms as "the conservation challenge of our generation." Jamie Rappaport Clark, executive vice president of Defenders of Wildlife, said Tuesday that climate change is affecting species from the Arctic north to... more »
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