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Colorado woman arrested in 1996 death of newborn

FORT COLLINS – A woman was arrested Tuesday in connection with the 1996 death of a newborn girl whose body was found in a garbage bag weighed down with rocks in a northern Colorado reservoir...

Inmate awaiting mental health treatment dies in Aspen jail

ASPEN – Authorities are investigating the suicide of a jail inmate in Aspen awaiting mental health treatment. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said 64-year-old Jillian White was...

New Mexico town in oil boom to get new worker ‘camp’

JAL, N.M. – A small New Mexico town in the heart of the Permian Basin oil and gas boom is getting a new camp development to house oil workers. The Hobbs News-Sun reports Canada...

Albuquerque faces ethics beef for pro-bond push on website

ALBUQUERQUE – A conservative-leaning group said it will file an ethics complaint against the city of Albuquerque for a pro-bond push posted on the city’s taxpayer-funded website. ...

Audit: Poor management causes Colorado State Fair money loss

DENVER – The Colorado State Fair has lost money for 21 straight years and a state audit of the operation says it has not been managed strategically. Colorado Public Radio reports ...

2 Permian Basin oil and gas producers get violation notices

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Environment Department has issued notices of violation to two Permian Basin oil and gas producers over air quality regulations. The U.S. Environmental ...

Judge: Colorado Planned Parenthood shooter still incompetent

COLORADO SPRINGS – A judge has ruled that a man who killed three people and injured nine others at a southern Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic remains mentally incompetent to stand trial. ...

At least 11 Catholic priests named in Colorado report alive

DENVER – At least 11 Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children in Colorado are still alive. The Denver Post reports that some of them became social workers, religio...

Report: Sage-grouse recovery to cost millions and take years

GRAND JUNCTION – A federal agency says rebuilding a sage-grouse population found only in Colorado and Utah could take more than 50 years and cost nearly $561 million. The Daily Se...

New Mexico delegation takes aim at West’s water scarcity

CARLSBAD, N.M. – As things begin to dry out again in New Mexico, members of the arid state’s congressional delegation are looking for ways to combat water scarcity here and across the Americ...

NFL Roundup: Ravens hand Patriots’ first loss of season

Seahawks top Buccaneers in overtime

Tastes great, less land-filling ... beer in a paper bottle

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish brewer Carlsberg says it is developing a paper beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibers. The Copenhagen-based company earlier this month ...