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Man arrested after standoff at Sea-Tac Airport; incident not thought terror-related

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SEATTLE — Police at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport...

Florida-bound flight diverted because of ‘suspicious’ Christmas ornament

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An Orlando, Fla.-bound Northwest Airlines flight was diverted to Nashville, Tenn...

EPA worried about shale-gas drilling near N.Y. water supply

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has expressed concern about the prospect of energy companies drilling for shale-based natural gas around New York City's key water supply...

December first month without U.S. deaths in Iraq war

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CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — December was the first month since Iraq...

California civic leader slain in Mexico

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LOS ANGELES — The execution-style murder of a young El Monte, Calif., civic leader in Mexico was viewed Friday as a stark sign of just how widely the country's savage drug violence has spread...

Free transit offered for New Year’s Eve

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The City of Boulder, RTD and Special Transit are offering free...

A look back at the Aughts

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The first decade of the new millennium started on a humorous note, as millions of Americans hunkered down with caches of bottled water and canned food to ride out the anticipated chaos of Y2K. The stroke of midnight passed, and the world went on as it was. There’d ...

Winter Bike to Work Day coming

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The second annual Winter Bike to Work Day will be held on Jan. 20, from 7:30 to 9 a.m., GO Boulder recently announced. Winter Bike to Work Day will be celebrated with breakfast and hot chocolate stops at six locations and prizes for participants, all supplied by ...

It’s hip to be Square; Twitter inventor has new venture

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — It was in February that Jim McKelvey ran into the problem that would lead to the birth of Square, a new mobile-payment venture led by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey...

Settlement of Outback lawsuit means $16 million for women

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Outback Steakhouse has agreed to pay $19 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged its company-owned restaurants practiced "glass ceiling" sex discrimination...

U.S. stocks slip; oil-inventory data are mixed

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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks slipped Wednesday, led by consumer and energy sectors, as preliminary oil-inventory data were mixed...