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Former VA worker gets 18 months in prison for taking bribes

DENVER – A former Veterans Affairs employee in Colorado who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for rigging federal contracts has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison. ...

Dad gets 72 years in death of boy found encased in concrete

DENVER – The father of a 7-year-old boy whose body was found encased in concrete in a storage unit in 2018 was sentenced to 72 years in prison on Friday in his death. Leland Panke...

Convicted New Mexico sect leader seeks new trial

GRANT, N.M. – A leader in a rural New Mexico paramilitary religious sect convicted of kidnapping and sexual abuse is seeking a new trial. Lawyers for Deborah Green, leader of the ...

New Mexico man accused of using website to solicit two murders

ROSWELL, N.M. – Authorities said a former Roswell high school student is accused of using a website to try to hire someone to kill two fellow students. Roswell police say 18-year-...

Lab in New Mexico could begin testing for new virus

SANTA FE – Health officials in New Mexico send off samples from people suspected of having the new coronavirus to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the state epidemiologist...

Police: Man who claimed to have gun killed in drive-through

COLORADO SPRINGS – An off-duty police officer waiting at a fast food drive-thru Thursday shot and killed a man who came up to his car and claimed he had a gun, police said. The of...

U.S. forest chief: ‘Tough choices’ to fund wildfire prevention

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. Forest Service has been working with states and other partners to treat more acres every year in hopes of reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire, but Forest Chie...

New Mexico homeowner ordered to remove pro-Palestinian mural

SANTA FE – A New Mexico homeowner has been ordered to remove pro-Palestinian murals from an adobe wall outside his Santa Fe home. The Santa Fe Historic Districts Review Board affi...

Lawsuit: Black officer who was fired faced harassment

ALBUQUERQUE – A black corrections officer in southeastern New Mexico faced constant harassment and was eventually fired after he called in sick and was later spotted at a high school basketb...

New Mexico jury convicts an Arizona man of human smuggling

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A federal jury in New Mexico has convicted an Arizona man on a human smuggling charge. Prosecutors say 39-year-old Francisco Armando Martinez of Tucson was foun...

Two found dead in Utah crash were missing Colorado couple

SALT LAKE CITY – Authorities said the remains of two people found in a wrecked car in a ravine in eastern Utah are those of a Colorado couple missing since October. The Deseret...

Men killed in Colorado avalanche were trying to leave area

VAIL – An avalanche in Colorado took the lives of two people who had turned back to avoid a dangerous area, a report said. The Feb. 15 avalanche north of Vail killed Dillon Block ...