States move to expand experimental drugs for some

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate

DENVER - In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

A hazy outlook

DENVER - Rains cooled Colorado's wildfires Wednesday, but more than a dozen wildfires elsewhere in the West continued chewing through bone-dry pine and brush as firefighters working through the holiday kept a nervous eye for fireworks and other hazards.

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Half full or half empty?

DENVER - Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO