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Colorado city adopts 6-month delay for scooter, e-bike firms

ASPEN – A Colorado city has enacted a waiting period for companies that provide scooter and e-bike services. The Aspen Times reports that Aspen City Council approved a six-mo...

Parents of New Mexico teen charged for not locking up gun

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Authorities say the parents of a teenager accused of firing a gun at a New Mexico high school failed to lock up their firearm despite knowing their son had made threats to...

Some contract workers at DIA strike over work conditions

DENVER – A small group of baggage handlers and wheelchair assistants at Denver International Airport have walked off the job to protest what they call unsafe working conditions. A...

Report: Childhood poverty persists in fast-growing Southwest

SANTA FE – The number of children living in poverty has swelled over the past three decades in fast-growing, ethnically diverse states such as Texas, Arizona and Nevada as the nation’s popul...

Colorado man gets life for killing 3 at illegal pot grow

BOULDER – A 26-year-old Colorado man will serve life in prison after being convicted of felony first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three people at an illegal marijuana grow opera...

Man gets 32 years in prison for shooting father to death

BRIGHTON – A 28-year-old man who shot his father to death at an apartment north of Denver has been sentenced to 32 years in prison. Waylon Robitaille pleaded guilty in April to se...

Money from oil, gas revenues gushing into state coffers

SANTA FE, N.M. – State Senate Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith says if the price of oil doesn’t drastically change, the state could receive more than $1 billion in additional tax...

Watchdog to investigate Interior moves on Utah monument

SALT LAKE CITY – A government watchdog will investigate whether the U.S. Interior Department broke the law by making plans to open lands cut from a Utah national monument by President Donald...

Report: Childhood poverty persists in fast-growing Southwest

SANTA FE – The number of children living in poverty has swelled over the past three decades in fast-growing, ethnically diverse states such as Texas, Arizona and Nevada as the nation’s popul...

3 men escape from immigrant detention center in Colorado

AURORA – Authorities are searching for three men who escaped from an immigrant detention center in Colorado. The Aurora Sentinel reports the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfo...

Nassar judge, Olympians, members of Colorado delegation back USOC oversight

DENVER – The judge who sentenced former sports doctor Larry Nassar to prison and a group of Olympians are backing an effort to create a committee to look into the operations of the U.S. Olym...

Deadline arrives for clergy abuse claims in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Monday marks the deadline for filing sexual abuse claims as New Mexico’s largest Roman Catholic diocese wades through bankruptcy proceedings. Lawyers for the hundred...