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New Mexico reports 20 more COVID-19 deaths, most in months

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s pandemic death roll rose by 20 on Friday, the largest reported single-day increase in months. The state on Friday also reported 885 additional confirmed cases – the l...

DATE: Sep 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Security workers called in to protect mobile vaccine units

GOLDEN – Security workers will accompany nurses and staff members of Jefferson County Public Health’s three mobile vaccine units for the foreseeable future after months of harassment and abu...

DATE: Sep 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Girl who died at amusement park identified as probe continues

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – The family of a 6-year-old girl who died at a Colorado amusement park is raising money to pay for her funeral as an investigation continues into what happened. The girl wa...

DATE: Sep 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

4 teens killed, 2 injured in crash on Colorado's plains

WILEY – Four teenagers were killed and two other people were hospitalized when the SUV the teens were riding in was hit by a semitrailer on Colorado’s rural southeastern plains on Wednesday ...

DATE: Sep 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Forced medication approved for wildfire suspect, lawyers say

DENVER – A judge has approved the forced medication of a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a wildfire that burned 149 homes in Colorado in 2018, lawyers said Wednesday. The develop...

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado county COVID vaccine workers harassed over holiday

DENVER – A Colorado county’s public health department took its three mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics off the streets after its staff members were harassed while providing inoculations ov...

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

$3M deal reached in rough arrest of woman with dementia

DENVER – A Colorado city has agreed to pay $3 million to a 73-year-old woman with dementia who was roughly arrested by police last year, officials announced Wednesday. An officer arrested Ka...

DATE: Sep 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Willard Scott, weatherman on NBC’s ‘Today’ show, dies at 87

NEW YORK – Willard Scott, the beloved weatherman who charmed viewers of NBC’s “Today” show with his self-deprecating humor and cheerful personality, has died. He was 87. His successor on the...

DATE: Sep 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Albuquerque jail offers treatment for opioid addiction

ALBUQUERQUE – The Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque has begun a program to give buprenorphine to people in jail who are already using it to treat their opioid addictions. The Albu...

DATE: Sep 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Girl, 6, dies at amusement park ride in Glenwood Springs

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – An investigation is underway after a 6-year-old girl on vacation with her family died at an amusement park in Glenwood Springs. Few details have been released, but Suzann...

DATE: Sep 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

State Police chief ‘beyond disgusted’ by recent violence

LOS LUNAS, N.M. – A pair of shootouts between a suspect and law enforcement officers left the suspect dead and two sheriff’s deputies injured, prompting the head of the New Mexico State Poli...

DATE: Sep 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Navajo Nation reports 74 new COVID-19 cases, 1 new death

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Friday reported 74 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death. The latest numbers pushed the Navajo Nation’s total to 32,784 cases since the pandem...

DATE: Sep 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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