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The Bureau of Land Management has decided on the new manager for its Uncompahgre Field Office, based in Montrose.

NELLYSFORD, Va. – The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America has developed a pair of EDUcation credentials, giving woodworking students new opportunities to be recognized for expanding their skills.

Upon South Sudan’s independence in 2011, many hoped the country’s oil wealth would help build the state and lift citizens out of poverty. Instead, politicians have shunted these revenues toward patronage and personal enrichment, feeding internal conflict. Transparency and accountability are badly needed.

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend getting my sea legs back and sleeping a lot. Oh, and watching the Gators dominate in the Olympics. 10. There is this misconception that the college football season begins on SEC Media Days. Nothing could be further from the truth. When SEC Media Days ends, we are still about six weeks away from the first SEC game of the year. No, the start of college football season was Sunday, because we are now in August and there will be games played in August. Of c...

More than a dozen historic hotels are located in Kansas, with many built in the early 1900s at the height of the railroad rush. Over the past century, many of the states historic hotels have changed ownership and some have temporarily closed. For some, community members stepped up, realizing the importance of these hotels history not only to their town but also the state. Historic preservation is a common theme among hotel owners, and many have gained a spot on the National Register for Hist...

Keeping Score: Clubbie insider Good morning! Few baseball books have been written about life at the bottom of baseball’s food chain. According to baseballamerica.com, each franchise has over 200 players under contract not including rookie league players in Arizona, Florida and the Dominican Republic, and only 26 of them can be on a big league roster. A scout in Jupiter, Fla., once told me that only seven percent of players who sign a pro baseball contract ever make it to the major leagues. ...

Chesapeake Energy said three executives are leaving, marking the latest shakeup of the senior ranks at the Oklahoma oil and gas producer since it emerged from bankruptcy four months ago.

Chesapeake Energy announced after markets closed Friday three key managers have departed. Former CEO Doug Lawler left the company in April.

Jun. 4—Greg Larson is a 32-year old writer, currently living and working in Austin, Texas, where he has been for three years. Just shy of 10 years ago, Larson took on the job of clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen IronBirds. Larson filled that role over two seasons, 2012 and 2013 and from his own struggles, he wrote a book; Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir. Larson talked about life and ...

   If you were in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the 1980s and you tuned your television to channel four, you might have seen Lillian Atmak Michael announcing the Yup’ik news. You would see her long, straight black hair parted in the middle, and her big glasses that covered nearly half of her face. What you wouldn’t see was the complex linguistic surgery she was conducting in her mind. Former KYUK news director Rhonda McBride said that Atmak would not only translate the English news into Yu...