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Tempers flare at Mesa County protest as judge prepares to decide Tina Peters’ role in upcoming election

At least one person hurt when a counter-demonstrator showed up

DATE: Oct 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Experts: Colorado supermarket shooting suspect not competent

DENVER – State experts concluded that the man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket is not competent to stand trial but a judge granted prosecutors’ request for his mental...

DATE: Oct 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Weekly planner for Oct. 11-15

Information and agendas about local meetings: City of Durango: www.durangogov.org or call 375-5000. La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us or call 382-6210. Town of Bayfield...

DATE: Oct 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

West Nile virus cases climbing in Colorado

COLORADO SPRINGS – West Nile virus infections and deaths are both up in Colorado from last year, and there have been more cases so far than at any point since 2016, according to data from th...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Salmonella outbreak tied to seafood sickens 82 in Colorado

DENVER – A salmonella outbreak tied to seafood that Denver-based Northeast Seafood Products Inc. processed or manufactured has sickened at least 82 Coloradans in 14 counties. Of 102 people i...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Fate of the northwest Colorado wolf pack remains a mystery

DENVER (AP) — On a hazy July afternoon, wolf expert Karin Vardaman returned to a spring-fed pond in Colorado’s northwestern-most corner. Enough rain had fallen to wet the ground around the w...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation reports 51 more COVID-19 cases, 1 new deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Friday reported 51 more COVID-19 cases and one additional death. It was the third consecutive day that the tribe reported at least one coronavirus-r...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Biden restores Bears Ears, other monuments cut by Trump

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Friday restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hund...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona murder case against US Air Force airman goes to jury

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – No one saw Sasha Krause being taken from a Mennonite community in northwestern New Mexico where she worked in the publishing ministry, dominated in card games and pingpon...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado woman who won’t get vaccinated denied transplant

COLORADO SPRINGS – When a Colorado woman found out her hospital wouldn’t approve her kidney transplant surgery until she got the COVID-19 vaccine, she was left with a difficult decision pit...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation reports 49 more COVID-19 cases, 5 more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation on Thursday reported 49 more COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths. It was the second consecutive day that the tribe reported at least one coronavi...

DATE: Oct 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News