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Colorado police find homeless men preparing lobster, lamb

ASPEN – A Colorado police officer started a recent shift with a routine call: Checking on reports of smoke in a wooded area. But when Aspen Police Sgt. Rob Fabrocini arrived at th...

Endorsements, donations draw eyes in Albuquerque mayor race

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque’s long-beleaguered police department and questionable campaign donations are casting shadows in the city’s open mayoral election. Some candidates have re...

German artists drag giant metallic pen through Utah, Colorado

VERNAL, Utah – Two German artists wearing black suits and pulling a giant metallic pen made out of foam board began walking a roughly 250-mile rectangular route this week through Utah, Color...

Endangered Mexican wolf killed following livestock attacks

ALBUQUERQUE – An endangered Mexican gray wolf has been killed by federal employees after a Native American tribe requested the animal be removed from the wild in the wake of a string of catt...

Bears pulled from tree in downtown Aspen’s pedestrian mall

ASPEN – Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials tranquilized a mother bear and her two cubs after they had found their way into a tree on an Aspen pedestrian mall on Thursday. The A...

Colorado woman uses dead critter parts to make jewelry

PUEBLO (AP) – Snake vertebrae, muskrat jaws, bird skulls and beetle wings may not be the most traditional materials when it comes to designing and fabricating jewelry, but take just one look...

Program encourages kids to read to cats at animal shelter

GREELEY (AP) – Cale Martin is allergic to cats. But he loves cats. He loves them so much, he doesn’t mind taking his medication before he reads to them at the Humane Society of Weld County. ...

Santa Fe approves ban on traveling wild, exotic animal acts

SANTA FE – Santa Fe will no longer allow wild and exotic animal acts after approving an amendment to the city’s animal welfare ordinance. The City Council and mayor approved the a...

Power lines to connect Wyoming wind energy to Southwest

Energy will serve markets in California, Nevada and Arizona

US West’s wildfires spark calls to thin tree-choked forests

SALEM, Ore. – Wildfires that are blackening the American West in one of the nation’s worst fire seasons have ignited calls, including from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, to thin forests that...

Colorado to appeal ruling against sex offender registry

DENVER – Colorado has decided to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the state violated the constitutional rights of three men by requiring them to register as sex offenders, the state’s at...

5 charged with fatal abuse in girls’ deaths on Colorado farm

NORWOOD – Five people have been charged with fatal child abuse in the deaths of two young girls whose bodies were found on a Colorado farm. At a Tuesday court hearing in San Migue...