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Infections among inmates boost New Mexico’s COVID case total

SANTA FE – New Mexico health officials confirmed an additional 659 COVID-19 infections Friday – marking the highest daily case total in more than three weeks. The New Mexico Depar...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado vaccine distribution expands as production ramps up

DENVER – Anyone 60 and older will be eligible to receive a vaccine for the coronavirus beginning March 5 followed by those 50 and older toward the end of the month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man gets nearly 20 years for Colorado synagogue bomb plot

DENVER – A man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison on Friday for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue last year by a judge who described the case as “dripping with Nazism an...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation reports 23 new coronavirus cases, four deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation has continued on a downward trend in the number of daily coronavirus cases. Tribal health officials on Friday reported 23 new cases of COVID...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Tribes in legal limbo over federal virus relief funding

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Nearly a year after Congress passed a coronavirus relief bill, some Native American tribes remain in legal limbo over what’s been distributed. The issue didn’t ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado changes vaccine plan again, moving down most essential workers

Polis moves up Coloradans between ages of 60 and 64

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico governor signs bill to preserve abortion rights

SANTA FE – Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed a bill to shore up abortion rights in New Mexico, saying a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body. ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Skier dies after accident at Colorado mountain resort

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – A 48-year-old skier died this week from an accident at Colorado’s Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort. Job Henning, 48, suffered head injuries and was found unresponsi...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police officer pleads for Capitol riot suspect’s release

DENVER – A person identifying himself as a Denver police officer is among a group of people hoping to persuade a judge to release a Colorado geophysicist accused of assaulting police during ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Las Cruces school official struck, killed while walking dogs

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Karen Trujillo, school superintendent for New Mexico’s second largest city of Las Cruces and a former leader of the state Public Education Department, was hit and killed b...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

High court rejects ‘warrior gene’ defense as unreliable

SANTA FE – The state Supreme Court upheld a murder conviction Friday against a man who claimed a “warrior gene” made him predisposed to impulsive acts of violence. In a unanimous ...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man arrested in Nebraska in Colorado cold case slaying

DENVER – A man tied to the killing of Colorado woman nearly 40 years ago through DNA evidence was arrested earlier this month in Nebraska, authorities announced Thursday. David Dw...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News