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New Mexico judge delays trial over attorney’s virus exposure

SANTA FE – A New Mexico judge postponed a murder trial after learning a defense attorney was in contact with people who contracted COVID-19. District Judge Maria Sanchez-Gagne cal...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado town running on generator after lightning strike

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – A Colorado town is using a generator to operate its power grid after lightning hit a transformer and caused what an official called a perfect storm of mechanical failure....

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Troubled New Mexico hospital near Navajo Nation eyes regroup

GALLUP, N.M. – A New Mexico hospital on the edge of the Navajo Nation that became overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic is trying to regroup with new leadership. The incoming leade...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Cooler weather could help crews fight fire west of Denver

DENVER – Firefighters are hoping to take advantage of cooler weather on Tuesday to stop the spread of a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in the foothills west of...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pilot successfully ejects when F-16 crashes while landing

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. – The pilot of an F-16C jet fighter successfully ejected and suffered minor injuries when the single-engine aircraft crashed while landing at Holloman Air Force Base in sout...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico man facing new charge related to protest melee

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico prosecutors on Monday amended a complaint against a man who opened fire after a fight broke out as protesters tried to tear down a statue of a Spanish conquistador, ...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildfire forces hundreds of evacuations west of Denver

EVERGREEN – A wildfire burning in the foothills west of Denver has prompted authorities to tell hundreds of residents to leave their homes. The fire started Monday afternoon and i...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man hit with Taser in daughter’s hospital room sues

A Colorado man who was hit with a Taser and then arrested in his daughter’s hospital room last year after refusing to give law enforcement officers a cellphone filed a federal lawsuit agains...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man drowns after falling from boat in Lake Pueblo

PUEBLO – Authorities say a man drowned after falling out of a small fishing boat in southern Colorado’s Lake Pueblo. KOAA-TV reports 68-year-old Robert Charles Taylor fell into th...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Opposition to imported Estonian uranium grows in Four Corners

Navajos and San Juan County, Utah, object

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Freedom Conference moves 2020 location to Beaver Creek

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – The Steamboat Institute’s Freedom Conference will take place outside of Steamboat Springs for the first time in its history, the conservative think tank announced Sunday....

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver area to casts votes to rename neighborhood with KKK ties

DENVER – A Denver neighborhood will vote on a list of nine names to replace its current association with a former mayor known for his Ku Klux Klan connection. The available option...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News