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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s not an exaggeration to say that railroads built Colorado. Whether they were carrying miners to booming camps, hauling timber and crops to market or just getting people from one rugged corner of the state to another, the state’s network of rail lines helped transform an untamed frontier into an economic engine.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ryan Lowell is the author of the debut novel, “Freight,” which is set in the world of the trucking business. His fiction has appeared in “Workers Write!” and “Overtime.” He lives in South Portland with his wife and two sons. Q. Please tell readers about your new book, “Freight.” “Freight” is a story about several desperate characters caught up in a scheme to steal a semi-truck hauling $10 million worth of pharmaceutical drugs. Q.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX and LINLEY SANDERS WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in federal government information about elections and politics, foreign affairs or the environment, a new poll finds.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Linda Gassenheimer, Tribune News Service When I saw the fresh summer vegetables at the market, a simple Gazpacho dinner came to mind. This classic chilled soup can be blended until silky smooth or left chunky for more texture. I prefer the chunky version because it’s hearty enough to serve as a satisfying vegetarian dinner. Simply chop the vegetables into small pieces, a task that takes just a few minutes, then stir everything together.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News Connecting people with clinical trials is complicated — even if people identify a promising match, there’s a slew of potentially thorny factors, including geographic incompatibility, and financial and time considerations. Simply finding an appropriate trial can present an enormous hurdle.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crews are finishing work on adding more than 180 beds for high-security male inmates at the Macomb Correctional Facility in Lenox Township in an effort to make the prison safer for prisoners to serve their sentences and corrections officer who work there.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JOSH JACQUOT of Edmunds Fun-to-drive coupes have been on the wane in the past few decades, which makes it worth paying attention when a new one shows up. The Honda Prelude returns after a 26-year hiatus for 2026, and it’s got some interesting elements to it.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The newly expanded PWHL enters its fourth season by securing its first season-long U.S. national broadcast deal with Scripps Sports, the women’s hockey league announced on Wednesday. The agreement builds on Scripps’ decision to close last season broadcasting a select number of regular-season games followed by the entire Walter Cup Finals playoff series.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — In the real world, President Donald Trump is struggling to stop inflation, rout the Iranian government and restore American manufacturing with tariffs. However, it’s a different story in the fantastical vision that he shares with supporters on social media. Over Labor Day weekend, Trump and the White House unleashed an extraordinarily heavy torrent of memes that portrayed the president as singularly powerful.