Sister Rita Petruziello said she could feel the contention and nastiness in the air during the presidential election campaign of the last year

The march and its counter-protest showed the sharp divide in how blacks and whites view the police in a city with few integrated neighborhoods.

Early Wednesday morning, the city council passed a measure that enables housing cooperatives to form in Boulder's neighborhoods.

The pope invited everyone to pray for all prisoners in the world, and that prisons focus on rehabilitation.

The cut-off is a major challenge to the government's effort throughout the nearly 6-year-old civil war to keep the capital as insulated as possible.