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New Mexico ruling abolishes privilege on spousal testimony

The New Mexico Supreme Court has barred the state’s court system from continued use of a longstanding legal privilege that disallows testimony by a defendant’s spouse, saying it is based in ...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 New Mexico school boards to review medical pot policies

ALBUQUERQUE – Public school boards for two of the state’s largest districts are preparing to review policy changes for students who have prescriptions for medical marijuana. KOAT-...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico to bolster health services, Medicaid payments

SANTA FE – New Mexico is moving forward with efforts to bolster access to a variety of health care and dental services by increasing rates for Medicaid payments to physicians and other provi...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico justices lift ban on spousal testimony

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s highest court has lifted a ban on testimony that stems from private conversations between spouses. The state Supreme Court’s ruling came in its decision to...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Balloon pilot grounded for dipping into tainted lake

COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado Springs balloon festival has grounded a pilot for briefly touching down in a lake that was off-limits because of a harmful algae. The Gazette repo...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado school says database was hacked but damage was limited

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – A western Colorado school district says hackers breached a database of special education students and teachers but didn’t obtain any social security numbers or financial i...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fugitive leaps twice from buildings but police still nab him

COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado Springs police say a man who was trying to elude officers jumped from a second-story window, ran to the roof of another building and leaped again before he was ar...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Key shaft at nuclear waste dump in N.M. may be built by 2020

CARLSBAD, N.M. – A major part of a multimillion-dollar effort to rebuild a ventilation system at the U.S. government’s only underground nuclear waste repository is expected to be done by nex...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmaker unblocks constituent on social media

DENVER – A state lawmaker from Colorado has agreed to no longer block constituents from social media accounts linked to his state Senate office. The ACLU filed the lawsuit against...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Plutonium test results slow plans for Denver-area toll road

BROOMFIELD – Broomfield city officials are suspending their search for investors to help build a toll road after a soil test found elevated levels of plutonium in the highway’s planned path....

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man gets 9 years for assaulting police officer

VAIL – A Colorado man who was shot by an officer responding to a domestic dispute has been sentenced to nine years in prison for assaulting the officer. The Vail Daily reports ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Retired New Mexico Chief Justice Charles Daniels dies at 76

ALBUQUERQUE – Authorities say former New Mexico Chief Justice Charles Daniels has died. Chief Justice Judith K. Nakamura issued a statement Sunday on behalf of the state Supreme C...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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