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New Mexico counties partner to house juvenile defendants

AZTEC – The San Juan County Juvenile Detention Center will soon house youths from two more New Mexico counties as options for some counties shrink. The county commission this week...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Authorities suspend search for missing Colorado boy

DENVER – Authorities have suspended their search in southern Douglas County for an 11-year-old boy who has been missing for more than three weeks. Jacqueline Kirby, a spokeswoman ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ex-deputy gets seven years for drug trafficking in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – A judge sentenced a former Colfax County sheriff’s deputy to seven years in prison for drug trafficking and theft in New Mexico while in uniform, wearing a badge and driving a ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Florida truck driver pleads guilty to 1980 Colorado killing

CASTLE ROCK – A Florida truck driver who was arrested after DNA tied him the killing of a Denver radio station intern nearly 40 years ago pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder. ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Uncounted 2019 ballots found in western Colorado county

GRAND JUNCTION – An elections clerk in a western Colorado county found nearly 600 ballots for the November 2019 election that went uncollected – and uncounted, she reported this week. ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arvada police shoot and kill man who fatally stabbed woman

ARVADA – Law enforcement officers in suburban Denver shot and killed a man early Friday after he apparently fatally stabbed a woman and tried to prevent officers from entering an apartment t...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation, San Juan County to pursue freight railroad

FARMINGTON – The Navajo Nation and New Mexico’s San Juan County have entered into an agreement to pursue a freight railroad to serve the Four Corners. Thursday’s agreement means c...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Mormon-owned BYU eases rules on ‘homosexual behavior’

SALT LAKE CITY – Brigham Young University in Utah has revised its strict code of conduct to strip a rule that banned any behavior that reflected “homosexual feelings,” which LGBTQ students a...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildlife managers investigate deaths of 3 Mexican wolves

ALBUQUERQUE – State and federal wildlife managers are investigating the death of three endangered Mexican gray wolves found last month in Arizona. Officials with the wolf recovery...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Woman in court, man arrested in shooting in Colorado store

BROOMFIELD – A 21-year-old woman appeared in court Wednesday and a man has been arrested in connection with a shooting incident inside a Walmart in Broomfield. Alyssa Borquez was ...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

30 people indicted for drug trafficking in Colorado

DENVER – Thirty people from two different suspected drug rings have been indicted for drug trafficking in Colorado, including a woman accused of being the leader of a Mexican ring based in D...

DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 arrested after exchange of gunfire in Colorado Walmart

BROOMFIELD – A man and a woman exchanged gunfire Tuesday inside a suburban Denver Walmart, panicking shoppers and triggering a swarming police response, police said. No one was hu...

DATE: Feb 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News