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Ex-sheriff wants road rage sentence tossed, blames lawyer

ALBUQUERQUE – A former sheriff convicted of abusing a driver in an off-duty traffic stop that prosecutors described as a fit of road rage is seeking to get his 10-year prison sentence tossed...

DATE: Apr 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado exemption allows industry to pollute without permit

DENVER – Colorado public health officials routinely allow oil and gas companies to begin drilling and fracking without obtaining federally required permits that limit the amount of pollution...

DATE: Apr 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Study aims at better evaporation estimates at reservoirs

LAS VEGAS – Researchers are working to better measure how much water is lost to evaporation at the nation’s two largest reservoirs as part of effort they say could lead to new water manageme...

DATE: Apr 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico AG says sheriffs must enforce gun control law

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s attorney general says law enforcement agencies must enforce a new law expanding background checks to nearly all private gun sales and that they could be liable for da...

DATE: Apr 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ted Bundy’s Colorado file includes crowbar, ski guide

ASPEN – For a guy who never lived here, Ted Bundy certainly made a mark on Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. He kidnapped and brutally murdered a Michigan nurse from a Snowmass V...

DATE: Apr 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Deal could move crude oil capacity to the Delaware Basin

CARLSBAD, N.M. – A deal between oil companies and a Texas firm could move almost a million barrels per day of crude oil capacity to the Delaware Basin in New Mexico and Texas. ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Autopsy: Migrant boy who died in U.S. had flu infection

ALBUQUERQUE – An autopsy report confirmed that an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died while in custody of the U.S. Border Patrol on Christmas Eve succumbed to a flu infection – one of two dea...

DATE: Apr 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildfire on Colorado’s plains 50 percent contained

LAS ANIMAS – Fire crews have been able make progress against a fire burning on 500 acres on Colorado’s southeastern plains. The fire in a rural area east of Las Animas was 50 perc...

DATE: Apr 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque police shoot stolen-car suspect during chase

ALBUQUERQUE – The Albuquerque Police Department says an officer shot a stolen car suspect after a car crash and short foot chase in the southeast part of the city. The Albuquer...

DATE: Apr 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Firefighters battle fire burning on Colorado’s plains

LAS ANIMAS – Fire crews are fighting a wildfire estimated to be burning on about 400 acres on Colorado’s plains. The Gazette reported that the fire started Thursday night in a ...

DATE: Apr 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor signs more than 250 bills, vetoes 28

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham embraced a nearly $1 billion infrastructure spending package and enacted a variety of modest tax increases designed to insulate schools and ...

DATE: Apr 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

TSA agent arrested at Denver airport on child sex charges

DENVER – A Transportation Security Administration agent has been arrested at Denver International Airport on charges of sexual assault on a child. The Denver Post reports 33-year-...

DATE: Apr 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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