Just two months shy of its 150th birthday, Colorado’s oldest newspaper has published its last edition today. The owners of the Rocky Mountain News say the newspaper lost 16 million dollars last year and can’t afford to stay open. Nearly 230 newsroom staffers are losing their jobs. Bente Birkeland caught up with some of them yesterday as they were completing their last assignments for the paper. She has this report.

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · In one neighborhood, 54 were people rescued. They described a water level that “swallowed up trucks and was chin-high.”
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · On a cold and rainy day in Boston thousands gathered to finish what two bombs stole from them. A one-mile run traced the home-stretch of the Boston Marathon, giving spectators, runners and victims a chance at closure.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · As the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, outrage has been building on Capitol Hill and beyond over the military’s failure to repair a system that has placed service members in more danger of sexual assault than of battlefield injury.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · One of Keith Carradine’s most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · One of Keith Carradine’s most famous roles in recent years was as Wild Bill Hickok on the HBO TV show Deadwood. But Carradine is also a musician, and it was a song that jump-started his career — and another that drew him to his latest Broadway role.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · The complex identities navigated by black Puerto Ricans play out in the music of hip-hop artist Tego Calderón and one of his inspirations, Ismael Rivera.
 

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May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
 

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