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Crews build containment around destructive California fires

LOS ANGELES – Firefighters continued to build containment around several destructive wildfires burning in California on Sunday, though one stubborn blaze in the northern part of the state gr...

DATE: Jul 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report: UNM ranks No. 1 in nation’s schools for vehicle thefts

ALBUQUERQUE – The University of New Mexico reportedly ranks among the top schools in the country for vehicle thefts. The Albuquerque Journal reports UNM had 140 stolen vehicles or...

DATE: Jul 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man gets 32 years for fatal strangling in southern Colorado

PUEBLO – A Colorado man who strangled another man to death has been sentenced to 32 years in prison. The Pueblo Chieftain reports 39-year-old Michael Mills was sentenced Friday fo...

DATE: Jul 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man falls to death climbing boulder in northern Colorado

BOULDER – Authorities say a 31-year-old Denver man died after he slipped and fell while climbing a boulder in northern Colorado. Boulder County sheriff’s officials say the man, wh...

DATE: Jul 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Bodies found in home ID’d as ex-reporter, long-dead husband

GALLUP, N.M. – Two dead bodies found inside a Gallup home have been identified as a 38-year-old former newspaper reporter and her 62-year-old husband, who had died in 2016. The Ga...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New wildfires sweep through California, burning homes

LOS ANGELES – Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others th...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 young mountain goats shot on Colorado mountain trail

BRECKENRIDGE – Officials say two young mountain goats were shot and killed near a mountain summit in central Colorado. The state is offering a $1,000 reward for information leadin...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Researchers study what happens to the dead in Arizona desert

PHOENIX – A team of researchers is trying to better understand what happens to migrants who die crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, including many whose bodies are never recovered. T...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

EPA accelerates cleanup of Pueblo Superfund neighborhoods

PUEBLO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will accelerate the cleanup of three Pueblo neighborhoods that were contaminated by a smelter. The agency said Friday i...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Crews at Colorado wildfire mark Storm King anniversary

EL JEBEL, Colo. (AP) – It is not lost on nearly 400 firefighters who have descended on the tiny Colorado mountain town of El Jebel that they are battling a blaze similar to the 1994 Storm Ki...

DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Bones found in Albuquerque link to archaeological site

ALBUQUERQUE – Bones discovered earlier this week not far from an area where 11 women were found buried nearly a decade ago are not related to an unsolved serial killing, but rather are part ...

DATE: Jul 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico watches water disappear as drought grips entire state

ALBUQUERQUE – Water levels at New Mexico’s largest reservoir are dropping and more rivers around the state are being reduced to a trickle as residents, farmers and water managers anxiously a...

DATE: Jul 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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