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New Mexico health officials urge flu vaccinations

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Health Secretary Kathy Kunkel will be getting her flu shot as the state kicks off its campaign to get more people vaccinated this season. Kunkel and Deput...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Body found in suitcase identified as mother of suspect

PUEBLO – Colorado authorities have identified a woman whose body was found in a suitcase in a large trash bin as the mother of the man suspected of killing her. Pueblo County Coro...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado mom charged with murder in death of young daughter

DENVER – A Colorado mother has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of her 7-year-old daughter, whose death had been attributed to terminal diseases after she fulfilled a bucket lis...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Report details use of solitary confinement in New Mexico

SANTA FE – The first-ever quarterly report from the New Mexico Corrections Department on its use of solitary confinement shows about 4% of inmates are held alone in a cell for at least 22 ho...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Classes resume in Colorado district despite strike

FAIRPLAY – Classes are resuming in a rural Colorado school district despite a teachers’ strike now in its second week. The president of Park County School District RE-2, Kim Bundg...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

University of New Mexico law student sues school over dust

ALBUQUERQUE â€“ A University of New Mexico law student is suing the school and a construction company for kicking up dust. KRQE-TV reports Zacary Wilson-Fetrow this month filed a ...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man in custody in case of body found in suitcase in trash

PUEBLO – Police in southern Colorado have taken into custody a 36-year-old man as they investigate the death of a woman whose body was found in a suitcase in the trash. Pueblo pol...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Kansas couple killed in New Mexico plane crash

ANGEL FIRE, N.M. – Authorities say a Kansas couple has been killed in a plane crash in New Mexico. Fire officials in the town of Angel Fire said in a Facebook post that the plane ...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico utility touts energy efficiency, job creation

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Executives with New Mexico’s largest electric utility are touting energy efficiency, pointing to a recent report from a clean energy group that shows more than a quarter ...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

After courts martial dropped, Air Force Academy cadets fight expulsions

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Two years after what Air Force Academy leaders call a hazing incident on the school’s swimming team, three cadets are still fighting to become officers after administ...

DATE: Oct 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Aztec looks to the Philippines amid teacher shortage

AZTEC (AP) – It was a cold Monday morning at C.V. Koogler Middle School in Aztec. Students stumbled into Shannon Albores’ history class and take off their rumpled jackets. After reciting the...

DATE: Oct 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge orders New Mexico compound suspect hospitalized

ALBUQUERQUE – A federal judge has ordered a woman charged with firearms and terrorism-related counts to be hospitalized for mental health treatment more than a year after authorities arreste...

DATE: Oct 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News