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Rural Nevada not equipped for big ‘storm Area 51’ turnout

LAS VEGAS – At first, the co-owner of the quirky alien-themed motel down a Nevada highway from the mysterious Area 51 site didn’t take a posting for a prank Facebook event too seriously. ...

DATE: Jul 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Suárez, VanMeter power Reds past Rockies

CINCINNATI – Eugenio Suárez hit a two-run homer, Josh VanMeter added a solo shot, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Colorado Rockies 3-1 on Saturday night. Anthony DeSclafani and t...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

American Willoughby wins BMX world championship

HEUSDEN-ZOLDER, Belgium – American Alise Willoughby won her second BMX world championship, recovering from a crash during one of the early runs Saturday before edging defending champion Laur...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Russi Taylor, longtime voice of Minnie Mouse, dies at 75

GLENDALE, Calif. – Russi Taylor, an actress who gave voice to Minnie Mouse for more than three decades, has died. Walt Disney Co. chairman Bob Iger announced Taylor’s death in a s...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

New Mexico judge rejects company’s proposal to move water

ALBUQUERQUE – A judge has rejected a company’s proposal to pump billions of gallons of water annually from an aquifer in west-central New Mexico to the middle Rio Grande Valley. T...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

1 injured in explosion at Albuquerque motel

ALBUQUERQUE â€“ An explosion at a motel injured one person while damaging one room and causing extensive structural damage to the building. Cause of the Friday night explosion was...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Officials ID officers, victim in Colorado Springs shooting

COLORADO SPRINGS – Officials have released the names of the victim and the officers involved in a police shooting in Colorado Springs. Police said Friday that Sgt. Mark Keller alo...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Brothers who sold deadly cantaloupe face Kansas hemp charges

TOPEKA, Kan. – Two brothers from Colorado whose contaminated cantaloupe killed 33 people and hospitalized many more in 2011 are facing drug charges in Kansas related to an industrial hemp sh...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Witness against New Mexico prison gang killed outside home

ALBUQUERQUE – Las Vegas police are investigating the shooting death in the northern New Mexico city of a man who testified against prison gang members last year. The Albuquerqu...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Body recovered from Eagle River west of Vail

VAIL – Officials in central Colorado have recovered a body from the Eagle River west of Vail. The Vail Daily reports the Eagle County sheriff’s office received a report of a bo...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico chile plant selected to be grown in space

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. – A hybrid version of a New Mexico chile plant has been selected to be grown in space as part of a NASA experiment. The chile, from Española, New Mexico, is tentati...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado woman avoids prison in 1-year-old daughter’s death

FOUNTAIN – A Colorado woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide for failing to get medical help for her young daughter’s head injury has been sentenced to three years in a halfway house...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News