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Housing authority board forces former member to sell home

ASPEN – A former housing authority board member who illegally rented her taxpayer-subsidized home on Airbnb is being forced to sell her three-bedroom unit in Aspen. The Aspen Time...

Scenic California highway near Big Sur reopens after slide

BIG SUR, Calif. – A scenic stretch of Highway 1 in a popular tourist area along the California coast reopened to traffic Wednesday, more than a year after it was blocked by a massive landsli...

State governors caught in crossfire of Trump’s trade war

SANTA FE, N.M. – State governors are looking for ways to court foreign investment and commerce in the shadows of President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs in trade disputes with countries ...

Archaeologists find ancient pottery workshop in Egypt

CAIRO – Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery manufacturing workshop dating to more than 4,000 years ago. Thursday’s statement by the Antiquities Ministry say...

Court finds religious entanglement by Douglas County School District

DENVER – A federal court has ruled that a Colorado school district violated the Constitution when it supported a Christian spring break mission trip in 2014. The Denver Post repor...

Mesa County fair to continue with bear act despite protests

GRAND JUNCTION – A western Colorado fair says it will continue with a scheduled performance featuring live grizzly bears despite protests from animal advocates. Mesa County Fair...

1 student remains in hospital after school bus crash

GREELEY – Officials say 27 out of the 28 people hospitalized following a Colorado school bus crash last week have been released from hospitals. The Greeley Tribune reports one s...

Deadly mushroom found growing in Aurora lawn

AURORA – An amateur mushroom forager spotted a rare and deadly mushroom growing in someone’s lawn as he walked around his Aurora neighborhood. Lazarus Bell spotted a “destroying a...

Vatican-OK’d journal strikes out again at U.S. evangelicals

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican-approved journal has launched its second major critique of American evangelicals, dismissing “prosperity gospel” theology as a “pseudo” faith dangerously tied up wit...

Usain Bolt to make run at pro soccer in Australia

SYDNEY (AP) — Usain Bolt is making a run at professional soccer in Australia. The Olympic sprint great has long expressed his love of the game. Since his retirement from track, he...

Discussion to focus on Native American voting rights

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Access and barriers to the political process across Indian Country will be the focus of an upcoming discussion in Washington, D.C. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, vice ch...

Investigation into weeping Virgin Mary statue continues

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces continues to investigate a Virgin Mary sculpture in a Hobbs church that appears to be weeping. The Las Cruces Sun-News report...