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Four Colorado officers cleared in fatal December shooting

DENVER – Four police officers from three different Colorado departments will not be charged after firing their weapons during a fatal confrontation with a robbery suspect in December, prosec...

DATE: May 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver Health retirees ordered to repay $11M after mistake

DENVER – About 40 retirees from the city of Denver have been ordered to pay back $11 million in retirement benefits after they were erroneously receiving the money because of a mistake by a ...

DATE: May 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP U.S. House primary in New Mexico gets personal, nasty

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – A candidate in a contentious Republican U.S. House primary in southern New Mexico is calling for one of her opponents to withdraw amid an increasingly personal and nasty c...

DATE: May 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Air patrol makes quick work of transporting COVID-19 tests

ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico wing of the Civil Air Patrol is flying dozens of coronavirus tests from a meatpacking plant in southern New Mexico to a state lab so they can be processed quickl...

DATE: May 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Absentee ballot push begins for New Mexico’s June 2 primary

SANTA FE – Election authorities are starting to distribute absentee ballots in a concerted effort to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission at polling places in New Mexico’s June 2 prim...

DATE: May 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Brother of man facing murder charge in Farmington woman’s death is arrested in Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The brother of a man charged in the death of a Sunday school teacher has been arrested after he flew to Arizona to pick up what he thought was a rifle used in the killing,...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado offices open at half capacity as coronavirus eases

DENVER – Offices in Colorado were allowed to reopen Monday with half the usual staff, and Denver’s mayor will let his stay-at-home order expire as the outbreak of the coronavirus eases in th...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribes have yet to get share of $8B in virus relief money

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The U.S. Treasury Department has not sent any payments to tribal governments from a coronavirus relief package approved in late March. The agency said it has no...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Test shows a rabid skunk attacked a person in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Rabies has been confirmed in a skunk that attacked a person last week in De Baca County, state health officials said Monday. It’s the second skunk that has tested posit...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico utility starts work on major pipeline project

SANTA FE – A New Mexico utility has started work on a major infrastructure project that will stretch from Bernalillo to Santa Fe. New Mexico Gas Co. announced Monday that the ne...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo leader urges unity after mayor’s alcoholism comment

PAGE, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called on elected officials in reservation border towns to work with the tribe to combat the coronavirus after one mayor made a comment he ...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado to face heavy fines over mental health violations

COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado is on course for millions in fines as mentally ill people accused of crimes languish in jails awaiting services, an official said. Colorado Department ...

DATE: May 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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