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Grandmother gets 7 years in prison for injuring grandson

DENVER – A 57-year-old Colorado grandmother has been sentenced to seven years in prison for causing her 6-month-old grandson to suffer a brain injury. Rebecca Laca of Denver ple...

Elderly New Mexico woman’s home broken into 5 times

ALBUQUERQUE – The home of an elderly Albuquerque woman hospitalized for a week has been reportedly burglarized at least five times, highlighting the city’s rising crime rates. Alb...

Officials ID Colorado ski area worker who died in accident

DENVER – Officials have released the name of a Colorado ski area employee who died in a work-related accident. Clear Creek County officials confirm that 40-year-old Adam Lee died ...

Arizona ranch suspends monster truck tours after rollover

PICACHO, Ariz. – Monster truck tours at an Arizona ostrich farm have been suspended following a rollover involving a dozen people. KVOA-TV in Tucson reports that the Rooster Cogbu...

Leader of NYC Ballet retiring amid misconduct investigation

NEW YORK – The longtime leader of the New York City Ballet is retiring in the middle of an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct by him. Peter Martins wrote a letter...

Witherspoon, Rhimes among founders of anti-harassment group

NEW YORK – Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes and Jennifer Aniston are among hundreds of Hollywood women who have formed an anti-harassment coalition called Time’s Up. The initiativ...

New Mexico man facing 10th DUI

CLOVIS, N.M. – An eastern New Mexico man is facing jail time after authorities say he was arrested on his 10th drunken driving charge. The Eastern New Mexico News reports Randall ...

Colorado gunman’s mental state was disclosed a month ago

DENVER – Colorado authorities were contacted with concerns about the mental health of Matthew Riehl more than a month before he shot and killed a deputy and wounded four others. But the 37-y...

Colorado’s Miakela Shiffrin matches her idol Marlies Schild with World Cup win

OSLO, Norway — Mikaela Shiffrin won a parallel slalom city event on Monday to match her childhood idol, Marlies Schild, with her 37th World Cup victory. Shiffrin pumped her fist v...

Highlands Ranch shooter was lawyer, Iraq war veteran

DENVER – A man who shot and killed a Colorado deputy and wounded four others along with two civilians was an attorney and an Iraq war veteran who had posted videos online in recent months cr...

American Indian tribes commission problem-gambling study

SANTA FE, N.M. – The first major study in more than a decade of compulsive gambling in New Mexico is being commissioned by an association of American Indian tribes that run casinos. ...

Principal’s door from Rockwell’s iconic ‘Shiner’ preserved

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. – When voters in Cambridge, New York, decided the town school was due for a renovation, science teacher Steve Butz knew there was one piece of the 1950 building that deserved...