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In a pandemic, Navajo community steps up for its vulnerable

TEESTO, Ariz. – For as long as Raymond Clark has lived alone on this quiet stretch of the Navajo Nation under the watch of the “Praying Mountain,” he has depended on everyone yet no one. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Airline passenger accused of refusing mask, then urinating

DENVER – A Colorado man accused of disrupting an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Denver by refusing to wear a mask and then standing up and urinating in the cabin faces a federal char...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado reports most killings in 2020 in 25 years

DENVER – There were more people per capita in Colorado who were killed last year than there have been in 25 years, according to state data. The state Bureau of Investigation repor...

DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

FBI offers reward in probe of October death in Shiprock

FARMINGTON– The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward as it continues to investigate the suspicious death of a Navajo Nation man whose body was found in October along a highway in Shiprock. ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado reaches $10.2 billion in marijuana sales since 2014

DENVER – Colorado marijuana sales have surpassed $10 billion since the state’s recreational market began in 2014 – thanks in large part to a record-setting 2020 in which businesses sold $2.2...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. says ranger tried to diffuse run-in before using Taser

ALBUQUERQUE – A National Park Service ranger used a stun gun on a man who identifies as Native American after trying repeatedly to diffuse a confrontation on federal land in New Mexico, acco...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Governor eyes mid-April to open vaccines for all in Colorado

DENVER – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said he expects every resident to be eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine by mid-April, a faster timeline than what President Joe Biden previously annou...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Two found alive, one dead after stranded in Colorado wilderness

CRAIG – A woman and her two children were found Thursday by aircraft after they spent two nights in the northwestern Colorado wilderness, authorities said. The Moffat County sheri...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico state Senate passes hair discrimination bill

SANTA FE – The New Mexico state Senate has passed a bill that would prohibit discrimination based on traditional hairstyles and head coverings. If signed into law, hair-based disc...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man charged in N.J. slaying, questioned in four deaths in N.M. extradited

WOODSTOWN, N.J. – A man who is a person of interest in the death of his ex-wife and three others in New Mexico has been extradited to New Jersey for a separate murder investigation. ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico House endorses ban of demonstrations at homes

SANTA FE – A proposal to make it illegal to demonstrate at any specific private residence in New Mexico has been endorsed by the state House by a narrow margin. The House voted 33...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Polis activates National Guard ahead of weekend winter storm

DENVER – Gov. Jared Polis said Thursday he is activating about 50 National Guard troops to help first responders conduct any search and rescues required during a winter storm expected to hit...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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