SPEARFISH, S.D. — The Pentagon's announcement lifting the ban on women in combat units will affect the South Dakota National Guard.Currently there is one unit open only to men.The 211th … more

PIERRE, S.D.— It fought at Shiloh, laid siege to Vicksburg, and marched with Sherman toward the sea.And, for decades, Leopold Balza's Model 1861 Springfield rifle, issued to him for use in the … more

AURORA, Colo. — Spero Manson never set out to become a medical anthropologist. It was a college calculus class that changed the trajectory of his career. Manson is a professor of psychiatry and … more

DURANGO, Colo. — Forty years ago, the Navajo Nation and Southern Ute tribes languished side by side, mired in high unemployment and poverty. Today, worth billions, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe … more

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — The individual refrigerators aren't huge, but what a difference they make: positioned under each of the new 16 work stations, easily accessible from the stove, spacious … more

MIDWEST, Wyo.— At the Midwest Community Health Clinic, Mike Smith greets people by their first names.He shares an office with an emergency crash cart and a set of standing medical lights. … more

LOVELAND, Colo. — Two Loveland churches are working to transform the secular into the sacred. Volunteers and staffers from Bent Tree Church were pulling out the bar and dismantling the beer pong … more

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — All that was left were footprints leading away from Christopher Dorner's burned-out pickup truck, and an enormous, snow-covered mountain where he could be hiding among the … more

BOSTON— A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books began clobbering the New York-to-Boston corridor on Friday, grounding flights, closing workplaces and sending … more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two more Marines face criminal charges over a 2011 YouTube video showing members of a scout sniper platoon urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The U.S. … more