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• Dems look to health vote without abortion foes (Vail Daily)

  WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week. In doing so, they are all but counting out a small but potentially decisive group whose views on abortion coverage have ...

• Nigerian villagers slain in brutal machete attack buried in mass graves (Boulder Weekly)

  LAGOS, Nigeria — The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria on Monday as survivors told horrific stories of Christian villagers being trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsmen.

• The larger the paw, the larger the footprint (Telluride Daily Planet)

  In the mountains, a 4x4 SUV is almost a necessity if you plan to drive when it’s snowy. But if you live almost anywhere else, the “gas guzzlers” are a target of green scorn.

• Swine Flu cases rise on Western Slope (Telluride Daily Planet)

  At the San Miguel County Department of Health and Environment, workers don’t have enough time to work — they’ve been answering their phones for days, fielding calls about flu vaccines.

• State in Brief | By Times-Call staff and wire reports © 2010 Longmont Times-Call (The Longmont Times-Call)

  Ice Pavilion’s March Meltdown is Sunday The Longmont Ice Pavilion will hold its annual March Meltdown event from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Skaters can paint on the ice, enjoy a free ice cream sundae and, of course, skate their hearts out for one last day.