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Pileup during blinding dust on New Mexico highway kills 6

LORDSBURG, N.M. – Six people died in a 25-vehicle pileup caused by a sudden dust storm along an interstate highway in New Mexico where such conditions have caused deadly collisions in the pa...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Dr. Dre pledges $10M for Compton High performing arts center

COMPTON, Calif. – Dr. Dre is pledging $10 million toward the construction of a performing arts center at Compton High School. The Compton Unified School District said Thursday tha...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Yoko Ono gets co-writing credit on ‘Imagine’

NEW YORK – Yoko Ono, who was previously credited as a co-producer on John Lennon’s “Imagine,” will earn a co-writing credit on the 1971 song. David Israelite, the president and CE...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

Fugitives in guard shootings ‘dangerous beyond description’

EATONTON, Ga. – A manhunt is under way for two inmates accused of killing two guards on a Georgia prison bus Tuesday morning. Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, overpo...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. 550 continues to be deadly major highway in New Mexico

Patrolman says highway north of San Ysidro ‘is a killing zone’

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Federal authorities seize Colorado company’s pot cases

Boulder-based Stashlogix lays off workers to compensate for loss

DATE: Jun 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The Latest: Senate committee says more work ahead in probe

WASHINGTON – The Latest on developments involving fired FBI Director James Comey (all times EDT): 1:25 p.m. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee says there...

DATE: Jun 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man who threw baby off bridge gets 70 years in prison

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – A Connecticut man who killed his 7-month-old son when he threw the boy off a 90-foot-high bridge, then survived the plunge himself, has been sentenced to 70 years in pris...

DATE: May 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge declares mistrial in ex-deputy’s murder trial

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in the case of a former New Mexico sheriff’s deputy who was charged in the shooting death of a fellow deputy during what authorities de...

DATE: May 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wife says she’d go to Cuba with deported husband

DENVER – The wife of a Cuban immigrant set to rejoin his family after he was mistakenly released from prison, then put back, says she would uproot her life in Colorado to go with him. ...

DATE: May 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Planned Parenthood to close 3 clinics in northern New Mexico

SANTA FE â€“ Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains plans to close three clinics in northern New Mexico. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the closures in Albuquerque, Rio Ranch...

DATE: May 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah’s Chaffetz expected to leave office by end of June

SALT LAKE CITY – A top Utah state lawmaker says that U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz is expected to leave office by the end of June. Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes said Wednesday in a ca...

DATE: May 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World