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Checkerboard complicates effort to protect sacred sites

The battle over oil and gas development across the high desert that surrounds Chaco Culture National Historical Park has been brewing for years. The campaign to curb drilling in o...

DATE: Apr 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers send $30.5 billion state budget to Polis

DENVER – Colorado’s Legislature has approved a $30.5 billion state budget for the next fiscal year. The Colorado Sun reports that the document includes $300 million for transporta...

DATE: Apr 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Former Navajo Nation official sentenced in theft case

TUBA CITY, Ariz. – A former manager of the Navajo Nation’s Tuba City Chapter has been sentenced to jail time and probation in a theft case. Priscilla Littlefoot had pleaded no con...

DATE: Apr 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Passenger jumps out of jet at Phoenix airport

PHOENIX – Authorities say a man on a flight that had just landed in Phoenix sprayed other passengers with a liquid from a bottle and then opened one of the jet’s doors and jumped to the tarm...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Students at Mormon-owned BYU urge honor code compassion

PROVO, Utah – Several hundred students at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University chanted “If God forgives me, why can’t you?” during a protest Friday aimed at pushing college officials to be ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. lab addresses seismic concerns, resumes waste shipments

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Officials at one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratories say a special indoor facility for shipping radioactive waste is back in operation after five years. ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Law extends Colorado open records to internal police probes

DENVER – Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation Friday designed to shed light on the conclusions of internal police investigations into alleged officer misconduct by making ...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

N.M. election official rejects push to get gun control on ballot

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s top election official has again rejected an attempt to challenge a new gun control law by getting it on the ballot for voters to decide. Democratic Secreta...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Spurned bills included state dance, tinted windshields

SANTA FE – Bills that would make it simpler for the elderly to avoid jury duty and allow tinted auto windshields have been shunned by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The D...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Growing number of states move to shield lottery winners

PHOENIX – A growing number of states are moving to allow the winners of big lottery jackpots to stay anonymous as privacy concerns are increasingly trumping lottery groups’ wishes to publici...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man who pretended to be blind sentenced for defrauding VA

DENVER – A Colorado man has been sentenced to a year in prison for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $1.3 million by pretending to be blind. Mike Blea, o...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Hunting bans for poachers who killed bear at landfill

ASPEN – A father and son who pleaded guilty to poaching a bear at a landfill in western Colorado have been banned from hunting and fishing in most of the United States. The Asp...

DATE: Apr 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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