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Court declines to hear appeal on Colorado recall effort

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Supreme Court has let stand a lower court judge’s ruling that postponed a Republican-backed recall campaign against state Sen. Kevin Priola, who switched parties to Democrat to protest what he called the GOP’s refusal to repudiate assertions that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Idaho resumes radioactive waste shipments to New Mexico

BOISE, Idaho – Shipments of nuclear waste from the U.S. Department of Energy’s site in eastern Idaho to a nuclear waste repository in New Mexico have resumed following three episodes that ca...

Santa Fe Archdiocese files plan for $121M abuse settlement

Agreement comes four years after archdiocese filed for bankruptcy reorganization

Video shows officer didn’t know police car was on tracks

DENVER – A police officer in Colorado who arrested a woman who was seriously injured when the parked patrol car she was in was struck by a freight train said he did not realize he had stoppe...

New Mexico AG wants state's anti-corruption law strengthened

Court removed ‘necessary tool to prosecute public officials,’ Balderas says

Rare 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript returned to Greece from U.S.

ATHENS, Greece — A U.S. museum has returned a valuable 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript to a monastery in northern Greece it was looted from by Bulgarian forces more than a century ago to...

Some New Mexico lawmakers debate higher tax rate for alcohol

SANTA FE – New Mexico has the worst rate in the nation for alcohol-related deaths at nearly 2,000 people per year and some lawmakers are debating whether the state tax on booze should be hig...

FBI: Jetliner evacuated in Albuquerque after security threat

ALBUQUERQUE — An American Airlines flight from Texas to New Mexico was evacuated Sunday after landing at the Albuquerque airport because of a security threat, authorities said. All 179 peopl...

Albuquerque Starbucks votes to unionize, 1st store in state

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is poised to have its first unionized Starbucks store, organizers say. A majority of rank-and-file workers at an Albuquerque location of the Seattle coffee giant vot...

Body of famed U.S. extreme skier from Telluride recovered in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal – The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepal's...

Classic movie has Colorado town scrambling to revise lewdness law

DENVER – A Denver suburb’s plan to show a nearly 50-year-old movie at its arts center has officials scrambling to revamp the town’s indecency laws. The Denver Post reports the city of Pa...

New Mexico allows funds for prosecutions in ‘Rust’ shooting

SANTA FE – New Mexico has granted funds to pay for possible prosecutions connected to last year’s fatal film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin, the Santa Fe New Mexican...