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Monday
7:50 a.m. A carport was damaged in a hit-and-run crash in the area of Jackson Place.
9:38 a.m. A vehicle was driving on the train tracks heading north in the 600 block of Narrow Gauge Avenue.
9:42 p.m. A vehicle was burglarized in the east 400 block of Eighth Street.
11:16 a.m. Ski poles and skis were stolen from a vehicle at Town Plaza.
3:16 p.m. A man with a bloody face came up to the drive-thru of a coffee shop in the 3400 Main Avenue
Flight For Life crew hit with laser beam, injuring paramedic
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Plane was southwest of Bayfield when unknown person shined green light at aircraft
Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 10:12 AM Updated: Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 10:54 PM A Flight For Life crew was preparing to land at the Durango-La Plata County Airport when a person pointed a laser beam into the cockpit. Courtesy of Flight For Life A Flight For Life paramedic suffered injuries to her eyes after a person on the ground pointed a laser at the aircraft Tuesday night while the plane was approaching the Durango-La Plata County Airport.
Durango-to-Purgatory Resort route a hotbed of activity
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Law enforcement sees increase of DUIs, speeding during winter months on Hwy. 550
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 5:03 AM
Durango-to-Purgatory Resort route a hotbed of activity Colorado State Patrol trooper Gabe Watkins pulls over a driver Friday on U.S. Highway 550, north of Durango. Watkins and another trooper were assigned to increase patrolling on the highway from Durango to Purgatory Resort. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald Escuchar en Español:
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New technology allows Colorado State Patrol to pinpoint where hotbeds of activity are, and in winter, the bull’s-eye falls on the 25-mile route from Durango to Purgatory Resort.
Inside La Plata County’s community COVID-19 vaccination site
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About 300 receive first dose of vaccine at fairgrounds Saturday
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 5:59 PM Updated: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 10:33 PM
Inside La Plata County’s community COVID-19 vaccination site Jacuelyn Dear, a pharmacist, fills a syringe with COVID-19 vaccine Saturday at the communitywide COVID-19 vaccination site in the Exhibit Hall at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
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Visitors to the La Plata County Fairgrounds saw the Exhibit Hall transformed into a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination distribution facility, where about 300 people received the vaccine Saturday during the launch day of the effort to inoculate the community.