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Colorado to use Volkswagen settlement to purchase new buses

DENVER â€“ Colorado will use part of an emissions scandal settlement to replace 28 diesel buses with electric or cleaner-burning vehicles. The Denver Post reports the state will p...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man charged in death of Colorado trooper during blizzard

GREELEY – A 58-year-old man has been charged in the death of a Colorado State Patrol trooper who was struck and killed by a car during last month’s blizzard. The Weld County Distr...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Woman suspected of stabbing girls before crash arrested

PUEBLO – Authorities have arrested a woman suspected of stabbing her young daughters before plunging her car into a river in southeast Colorado with the children inside. The Color...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado schools reopen as FBI examines teen suspect’s past

LITTLETON – The death of a Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and may have planned to carry out her own attack in Colorado did not end an in...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Deaths of Colorado men highlight trench construction dangers

WINDSOR – The deaths of two Colorado workers have highlighted one of the most hazardous construction industry accidents. The Coloradan reports the men died inside a collapsed t...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Top New Mexico emergency official assesses asylum influx

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico’s top emergency management official is scheduled to tour shelters for the homeless in the south of the state that are overflowing with international asylum-seek...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Asylum-seekers who show credible fear not eligible for bond

PHOENIX – Detained asylum-seekers who have shown they have a credible fear of returning to their country will no longer be able to ask a judge to grant them bond. U.S. Attorney Ge...

DATE: Apr 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Body of 10-year-old boy found after apartment complex fire in N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque authorities say a child found dead after a fire in an Albuquerque apartment complex was put out was a 10-year-old boy whose two siblings ages 2 and 13 were hospital...

DATE: Apr 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Florida teenager obsessed with Columbine takes her own life

LITTLETON – A Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and may have been planning an attack in Colorado just ahead of the 20th anniversary was fou...

DATE: Apr 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico seeks energy savings in state building upgrades

SANTA FE â€“ New Mexico is pushing forward with energy-saving upgrades to its portfolio of agency buildings in the state capital. The General Services Department that oversees mor...

DATE: Apr 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Indigenous leaders want less drilling near sacred sites

SANTA FE – Leaders of the Navajo Nation and Pueblo tribes expressed frustration Monday with federal oversight of oil and gas leases on public holdings near ancient Native American cultural s...

DATE: Apr 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sheriff: Columbine lockdown linked to FBI probe

LITTLETON – Authorities say tightened security at Columbine High School and about a dozen other Denver-area schools is related to an FBI investigation. A spokesman for the Jeffers...

DATE: Apr 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News