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Search for suspected SUV thief locks down crowded Vail hotel

VAIL – A man is under arrest for allegedly stealing an SUV from a valet at knifepoint at a hotel in Vail, keeping hotels guests and partygoers in place while officers searched for him during...

Guard at women’s prison arrested in attempted pimping case

DENVER – A guard at a Colorado prison for women has been arrested on suspicion of attempted pimping involving a woman who previously served time at the facility, authorities said Friday. ...

N.M. man accused in abuse death of young son surrenders to police

RUIDOSO, N.M. – A southern New Mexico man awaiting trial in the 2018 death of his 2-year-old son and more recently charged with perjury has surrendered to authorities. Prosecutors...

Missing hiker found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – Searchers have found what are thought to be the remains of a 20-year-old Las Vegas man who went missing in November while climbing Rocky Mountain National Park...

Man dies in rafting accident on Arkansas River

SALIDA – Authorities say a man died after the raft he was in flipped on the Arkansas River in southern Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say five people were throw...

National lab to study water in San Juan Basin

FARMINGTON – Federal land managers are partnering with researchers from Sandia National Laboratories to study how oil and gas development could affect water supplies in northwestern New Mexi...

High-elevation avalanche debris could fuel bark-beetle threat

ASPEN – Avalanche debris in Colorado’s high country could provide fresh breeding grounds for the forest-destroying bark beetle, but a U.S. Forest Service supervisor says there’s little the a...

Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin Ski Area wraps up ski season

FRISCO – Officials with the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in central Colorado say the resort’s ski season ended with an Independence Day celebration. Spokeswoman Katherine Fuller said t...

NWSL reaches television deal with ESPN for 14 games

CHICAGO – The National Women’s Soccer League has a television contract for the second half of its season to replace the partnership with A+E Networks that was cut short a year early by the b...

Buffon back at Juventus after 1 season at PSG

TURIN, Italy – Gianluigi Buffon is back at Juventus. The longtime Bianconeri goalkeeper signed a one-year contract with Juventus on Thursday, with the deal reportedly worth $1.7 m...

MAD magazine to leave newsstands this fall

BURBANK, Calif. – Long-running satirical publication The humor magazine will still be available in comic shops and through mail to subscribers – but after its fall issue, it will just rep...

Shrinking rural New Mexico villages putting churches at risk

SANTA FE – Shrinking populations in rural New Mexico villages are putting aging churches at risk because the buildings aren’t receiving the same upkeep as previous generations. Th...