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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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. ...

Four arrested before trial of New Mexico prison gang member

ALBUQUERQUE – Federal authorities have arrested four people, suspected of making threats against a judge and other officials, hours before testimony in the racketeering and murder trial of a...

Sherfield’s late bomb leads Nevada over Colorado State

RENO, Nev. – Grant Sherfield scored 18 points and his 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds left gave Nevada an 85-82 win over Colorado State on Friday night. Colorado State failed to get of...