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Colorado House passes firearms safe-storage legislation

DENVER – Colorado’s Democrat-controlled House on Tuesday advanced legislation requiring firearms to be securely stored to prevent unauthorized youths and other people from accessing them. ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque gets new police chief, reform superintendent

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller says he went both inside the outside the Albuquerque Police Department for leadership to fight crime and reform the organization. Keller...

DATE: Mar 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico House endorses health insurance tax, subsidies

SANTA FE – The House of Representatives endorsed a tax increase Monday that would boost subsidies for insurance coverage on the state health insurance exchange. The bill moves to ...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

No charges filed in Las Cruces school superintendent’s death

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – No charges are being filed against the driver of a minivan that fatally struck the school superintendent for New Mexico’s second largest city of Las Cruces, police said Mo...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Jury convicts Colorado man in girlfriend’s death

PUEBLO – A Pueblo County jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the 2013 death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Donthe Lucas was found guilty Monday in the death of Kels...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Hundreds of street racers block highway in Colorado

AURORA – A portion of a highway in a Denver suburb was temporarily shut down after hundreds of street racers and cruisers formed a gridlock over the weekend, highlighting a growing concern o...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police pursue hundreds of tips after violent Colorado party

BOULDER – Authorities have fielded hundreds of tips involving a massive weekend gathering near the University of Colorado at Boulder in which participants damaged cars, set off fireworks and...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tiger dies at Colorado Springs zoo after procedure

COLORADO SPRINGS – A 9-year-old tiger died last week at a Colorado Springs zoo after an artificial insemination procedure, zoo officials said Monday. The female tiger named Savel...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

South African virus variant confirmed at Colorado prison

BUENA VISTA – Three cases of the COVID-19 variant originating in South Africa have been reported at a correctional facility in Colorado, officials said. The Colorado State Public ...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man dies after falling in Utah’s Zion National Park

SPRINGDALE, Utah – Authorities have identified a 43-year-old Utah man believed to have fallen from a towering rock formation in Zion National Park. The body of Jason Hartwell, 43,...

DATE: Mar 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico reports 288 additional COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico on Saturday reported 288 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 186,742 cases and 3,796 deaths. About a...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexicans in majority as Senate OKs COVID-19 relief bill

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Democrats Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan were both in the razor-thin majority Saturday as the U.S. Senate approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News