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Mom pleads guilty to leaving boy in frigid car overnight

THORNTON – A Colorado woman has pleaded guilty to leaving her 2-year-old son alone in a car overnight during a snowstorm when the temperature reached minus 8 degrees. The Adams Co...

Polygamous group is slowly losing its power in remote town

Upcoming election pivotal in community’s future

Public banks offer hope for marijuana businesses

DENVER – With most private institutions and credit unions still avoiding the legal cannabis industry, many marijuana businesses remain without bank accounts. But one idea is gaini...

New Mexico looks for opioid solutions amid tributes to dead

SANTA FE – A Day of the Dead altar with family photos of orphaned children in the arms of the departed stood as silent testimony to New Mexico’s struggle to reduce the toll of opioid addicti...

Suspect in student’s death strolled library during manhunt

SALT LAKE CITY – An ex-con accused of killing a University of Utah student from China casually strolled multiple floors of a downtown Salt Lake City library about 15 hours after the fatal sh...

Thornton Walmart shooting victims: Grandparents, young dad

DENVER – The three people who died in the shooting at a suburban Denver Walmart were identified Thursday after police took suspect Scott Ostrem, 47, into custody. One was a grandfather, anot...

University of New Mexico names 1st woman president

ALBUQUERQUE – The University of New Mexico Board of Regents made history Thursday as it named Garnett Stokes the first woman president to lead the state’s flagship school. Stokes,...

Suspect walked off job hours before Colorado Walmart attack

THORNTON – A man accused of opening fire inside a suburban Denver Walmart, killing three people, abruptly walked away from his roofing company job hours before the attack, his former boss sa...

The Latest: 2 killed, 1 hurt in Colorado Walmart shooting

THORNTON – The Latest on a shooting at a suburban Denver Walmart (all times local): 8:10 p.m. Police say two men were killed and a woman was injured in a shooting insid...

Education, pensions top priorities in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s 2018-19 budget

Proposal is nearly 4% larger than last fiscal year

Denver settlement: Family of suffocated inmate getting $4.6M

DENVER – The family of a man who suffocated in jail as Colorado sheriff’s deputies restrained him during a psychotic episode has reached a $4.6 million settlement that also requires changes ...

Route 66 brewery in New Mexico sued by Europeans over name

ALBUQUERQUE – A New Mexico brewery that uses the Route 66 in its name faces a lawsuit from a European company that says it owns the beer sales and marketing trademark for the famed American ...