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Gold King mine spill left linger troubles on Navajo Nation

SHIPROCK, N.M. – Duane “Chili” Yazzie wears a “Water is Life” shirt as he walks the rows of his farm. He speaks of the river and earth as sacred entities for the Navajo people. Bu...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Families create ‘learning pods’ amid uncertain school year

DENVER (AP) – The unprecedented uncertainty whipped up by COVID-19 just weeks before the start of the school year is prompting an increasing number of parents to pursue what amounts to an ac...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cowboys for Trump resists reveal of financial contributors

SANTA FE – The support group Cowboys for Trump and its founder Couy Griffin are resisting pressure to disclose financial contributors in what could be a test case of a 2019 New Mexico state ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man sentenced threatening to kill official, lawyer

ALBUQUERQUE –A Colorado man has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for threatening to kill a New Mexico state official and an attorney with a law firm in connection with a fraud c...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Agency reports first plague death in New Mexico since 2015

SANTA FE – A Rio Arriba County man has died of the plague in what the state Department of Health says is the first such death in New Mexico since 2015. The man was in his 20s and ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

6 injured after boat catches fire on Horsetooth Reservoir

FORT COLLINS – Six people suffered injuries after a boat caught fire in the Horsetooth Reservoir on Saturday morning in Larimer County. The Denver Post reports four people were...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

DA won’t prosecute New Mexico park ranger in fatal shooting

ALBUQUERQUE – The attorney for the family of a Colorado man fatally shot by a U.S. National Park Service ranger in New Mexico said she was disappointed with a district attorney decision to n...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver officer suspended for hitting man with patrol car

DENVER – A Denver police officer was suspended for about a month after she struck a pedestrian with her patrol vehicle last year while using her cellphone, authorities said. Offic...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Reward offered in Denver fire that killed 5 from Senegal

DENVER – A $14,000 reward was offered Friday for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for setting a house fire that killed five people with ties to Senegal. The ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado trucker sentenced in Kansas crash that killed 5

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – A truck driver from Colorado was sentenced Friday to five years in jail for causing a crash that killed five people when his semi-trailer truck plowed into three cars on ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man in child porn case that closed observatory indicted

ALBUQUERQUE – A man linked to a child pornography investigation that sparked a mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico two years ago has been indicted. Court docum...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pandemic tests boundaries of remote work in New Mexico

SANTA FE – State Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart has returned to New Mexico and is self-quarantining as a precaution against coronavirus transmission after working remotely for sever...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News