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Utah town gives in, to allow smorgasbord of eateries

SALT LAKE CITY – A small Utah town outside Zion National Park has repealed a ban on chain restaurants, clearing the way for one of the country’s biggest fast-food chains to open amid Springd...

Trump’s deportation idea was tried in the 1930s

ALBUQUERQUE – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for mass deportation of millions of immigrants living in the United States illegally, as well as their American-born child...

School dedicated for ‘forgotten’ Mexican-American scholar

ALBUQUERQUE – Decades after leaving New Mexico in disgrace, a noted Mexican-American scholar and key figure in school desegregation got a school dedicated in his honor in his hometown of Alb...

Flight from Vegas to Germany diverted to Denver

DENVER – An international flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt, Germany, made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport escorted by two F-16 fighter jets Friday night after what off...

As killers get life, death penalty debated

DENVER – A Denver jury’s refusal to give the death penalty to a man who stabbed five people to death in a bar, coming on the heels of theater shooter James Holmes’ life sentence, has many wo...

Secretary of state charged with theft, money laundering

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s Democratic attorney general on Friday charged Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran with embezzlement, fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations, f...

Officers remove activists’ tent after clash at Denver courthouse

A group of activist shouted profanities at Denver police officers as they removed a tent that had been set-up in front of a Denver courthouse Wednesday morning. The clash between ...

Pueblo County mulls pot tax for scholarships

A Pueblo County commissioner is proposing a ballot measure for a program to fund college scholarships through a marijuana excise tax. Commissioner Sal Pace says he hopes the new m...

Judge sentences Holmes to life, orders him out of courtroom

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – The man who unleashed a murderous attack on a packed Colorado movie theater was ordered Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years – the maximum al...

Drought done, but N.M. utilities push for conservation

ALBUQUERQUE – Water managers across New Mexico aren’t giving up on their push for residents to conserve water even though severe drought has disappeared. For the first time in mor...

Judge gives spirited defense of theater shooter’s trial

CENTENNIAL – The judge who oversaw Aurora theater shooter James Holmes’ trial gave an impassioned defense of the jury and the process Monday after the mother of one of the wounded said Holme...

Navajo farmers reject use of water

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – One of the largest communities of Navajo farmers along the San Juan River has voted to keep irrigation canals closed for at least a year following a spill of toxic sludge ...