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Broncos fire rookie head coach Hackett after 4-11 start

Assistant Jerry Rosburg named interim head coach. ENGLEWOOD – The Denver Broncos fired first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett on Monday with two games left in the season. Team owner and CEO...

DATE: Dec 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Sports

QB Shedeur Sanders, CB Travis Hunter following Prime to CU

Sanders assembles veteran coaching staff

DATE: Dec 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Air Force beats Baylor 30-15 in chilly Armed Forces Bowl

Air Force wins fifth straight game against Power 5 programs

DATE: Dec 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

Former Broncos RB Ronnie Hillman dies at 31

DENVER – Running back Ronnie Hillman, who was part of the Denver Broncos team that won Super Bowl 50, has died, his family said in a statement. He was 31. Hillman's family posted on his Inst...

DATE: Dec 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Sports

New Mexico city ends bid to retrofit coal-fired power plant

FARMINGTON – City leaders have ended their bid to retrofit a shuttered coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico as a way to preserve jobs and tax revenue for Farmington and surround...

DATE: Dec 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico seeks tougher provisions for U.S. nuclear dump

ALBUQUERQUE – State officials on Tuesday released a draft permit that includes tougher provisions for the U.S. government to meet if it wants to continue dumping radioactive waste from decad...

DATE: Dec 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

Conferees told Colorado River action 'absolutely critical'

LAS VEGAS – The first weeks of 2023 will be crucial for Southwest U.S. states and water entities to agree how to use less water from the drought-stricken and fast-shrinking Colorado River, a...

DATE: Dec 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Lawsuit seeks access to withdrawal medication for prisoners

SANTA FE – Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Corrections Department seeking to ensure access for prison inmates to medication that reduces opioid withdrawal ...

DATE: Dec 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Deion Sanders' arrival swipes buzz from bungling Broncos

DENVER — Deion Sanders sauntered into the Arrow Touchdown Club for what felt more like an old-fashioned tent revival than a news conference to introduce the University of Colorado's splashy ...

DATE: Dec 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP Sports

NM relaxes testing for students on track to graduate in 2024

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is relaxing requirements for some high school students by eliminating the need to pass standardized tests as a way to demonstrate they're ready to graduate, the stat...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

New Mexico lawmaker avoids ethics hearing over committee job

SANTA FE – Outgoing New Mexico House Speaker Brian Egolf, who appointed himself to the Public Regulation Commission nominating committee, has avoided an ethics hearing by resigning. The Stat...

DATE: Dec 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico visits new political landscape in four-day trip

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is traveling to a convention of Democratic governors in New Orleans on the heels of her reelection victory, with additional engagements in P...