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Navajo Nation reports 18 additional COVID-19 cases, four deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Saturday reported 18 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases and four more deaths. The pandemic totals on the tribe’s reservation that includ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lincoln County inmate damages unit during escape attempt

HUGO – A Lincoln County Jail inmate tried to escape from a housing unit, was caught and tried to escape again while being transported to another facility. The inmate, 33-year-old ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Agencies: Arizona farmers should expect less water in 2022

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – State officials are putting farmers in south-central Arizona on notice that the continuing drought means a “substantial cut” in deliveries of Colorado River water is exp...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Panel dismisses most of ethics complaint against legislator

SANTA FE – The State Ethics Commission has dismissed two of three allegations in an ethics complaint filed by a retired judge against House Speaker Brian Egolf and instead will refer them to...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Greeley police shoot home burglary suspect

GREELEY – Greeley Police officers responded to a home burglary alarm early Saturday and shot a man who left the house with a gun, according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office. Th...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pandemic aid helps New Mexico tribe fix damaged adobe homes

SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) – First came the hail – sheets of it, pounding the centuries-old adobe homes at Santo Domingo Pueblo. Roofs were perforated “like a machine gun,” w...

DATE: Apr 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

First Black Supreme Court justice in Colorado dies at 72

DENVER – Gregory Kellam Scott, the only Black justice to serve on the Colorado Supreme Court, died unexpectedly at his home in Indiana. He was 72. Scott died Wednesday, The Denver...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation reports 17 virus cases, one additional death

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Friday reported 17 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death related to the disease. The Navajo Department of Health said that since th...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico reports 218 more COVID-19 cases, seven more deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico health officials reported 218 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and seven additional deaths. The state’s has reported a total of 192,152 known COVID-19 cases a...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Southern Colorado firefighter dies in work-related accident

COLORADO SPRINGS – A firefighter for the small southern Colorado town of Penrose has died in a work-related accident. Greg Gatzke died while working at Fort Carson for a contracte...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge dismisses environmentalists’ Gross Reservoir lawsuit

BOULDER – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2018 by a coalition of environmental advocacy groups challenging a permit for the expansion of Gross Reservoir in western Boulder C...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico group offers $10K reward in case of dead horses

CLOUDCROFT, N.M. – An animal advocacy group is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the deaths of five horses found in sou...

DATE: Apr 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News