Rocky Mountain News to close after Friday

The Rocky Mountain News in Denver will publish its last edition Friday. Owner E.W. Scripps Co. announced on the newspaper's Web site Thursday that its search for a buyer for the paper was unsuccessful.

DENVER (AP) -- The Rocky Mountain News in Denver will publish its last edition Friday....

DENVER (AP) -- The Rocky Mountain News has long been a scrapper: It beat the Cherry Creek Pioneer by 20 minutes to become Denver's first newspaper on April 23, 1859, and it survived an 1864 flood that swept away its building....

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The Rocky Mountain News has long been a scrapper: It beat the Cherry Creek Pioneer by 20 minutes to become Denver's first newspaper on April 23, 1859, and it survived an 1864 flood that swept away its building.

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