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Farmington water shortage prompts city to restrict usage

FARMINGTON – Farmington is implementing tougher steps to conserve water because voluntary usage reductions haven’t done enough to cope with the northwestern New Mexico city’s water shortage....

Man crawled under public bus before being dragged to death

DENVER – Investigators say a man who died when he was dragged about five blocks by a bus in suburban Denver deliberately crawled under the vehicle when it was stopped. Littleton P...

Hickenlooper’s longtime budget director to resign

DENVER – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has announced that his budget director will resign at the end of June. Henry Sobanet has led the Office of State Planning and Budgeting si...

Colorado man guilty of killing 78-year-old, burning body

DENVER – A 27-year-old Colorado man has been found guilty of killing a 78-year-old man who refused to give him money and then burning the man’s body in an attempt to cover up the killing. ...

Authorities ID body found on island in Colorado River

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Authorities have identified a man who was found dead on an island in the Colorado River near the town of Parachute. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent report...

‘Weeping’ Virgin Mary statue under investigation Catholic officials

Parishioners claim statue has had tears streaming down its face

Colorado man gets 12 years in prison for $328K in tax fraud

DENVER – A Colorado man who masterminded a scheme that fraudulently sought nearly $2.2 million in federal tax refunds has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Jaquon Mucsarney of...

Missing Air Force officer found 35 years later

ALBUQUERQUE – A high-ranking Kirtland Air Force Base officer with top security clearance who disappeared 35 years ago has been found in California. The Air Force Office of Special...

Feds hope to conduct horse roundups in Western Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION – Federal land managers are hoping to conduct roundups to remove hundreds of wild horses in Western Colorado this year. The Daily Sentinel reports that the Bureau o...

Mortgage rates fall

WASHINGTON – Long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second straight week, providing a helpful jolt for potential home buyers. Last week’s decline followed weeks of i...

Arizona court rules for city on same-sex wedding invitations

PHOENIX – An Arizona court on Thursday upheld Phoenix’s anti-discrimination ordinance, denying a wedding invitation business owners’ challenge that the local law violates their freedom of re...

Pathologist claims coroner’s office wrongfully fired her

LONGMONT – A forensic pathologist has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against a Colorado coroner’s office, claiming she was forced out of the job after refusing to change a case’s manne...