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Lawsuit: Kansas Highway Patrol targets out-of-state drivers

WICHITA, Kan. – The Kansas Highway Patrol has a practice of unlawfully targeting motorists based on their out-of-state license plates or Colorado travel plans because of that state’s legaliz...

New Mexico district: Teacher shortage a ‘health emergency’

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. – A northern New Mexico school board is calling a statewide teacher shortage that is hitting the region especially hard a “public health emergency.” Española Public...

New Mexico city OKs money for Vietnam War-era cannon

The Associated Press GALLUP, N.M. – A western New Mexico city is acquiring a Vietnam War-era cannon from the U.S. Army for display in its downtown near the historic Route 66. ...

Presidential task force on missing Native Americans charts path

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A presidential task force charged with coming up with ways to address cases of missing and slain Native Americans met for the first time Wednesday. The task f...

New Mexico State to halt student trips to China amid virus

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico State University said its study abroad office will not be sending students to China amid a new virus that has sickened thousands and killed more than 100. ...

New Mexico recreational pot legalization passes first test

SANTA FE – A Democrat-backed bill to legalize recreational marijuana businesses in all towns and counties across New Mexico passed its first test late Tuesday amid heighten interested from b...

Colorado city settles police shooting lawsuit for nearly $9M

DENVER – A Colorado city agreed to pay nearly $9 million to settle claims from an officer-involved shooting that left one person dead and another paralyzed, officials said. The ag...

Murder conviction overturned in Navajo reservation killing

GALLUP, N.M. – A federal appeals court has overturned a Gallup man’s first-degree murder conviction in a 2016 homicide, ruling that the defendant should have been allowed to present evidence...

Woman gets 3 years for role in fiancée killing case

CRIPPLE CREEK – A woman who was having an affair with a Colorado man convicted of beating his fiancée to death with a baseball bat and burning the body was sentenced Tuesday to three years i...

Regis University in Denver paid ransom in cyberattack

DENVER – A ransom was paid to the hackers responsible for a cyberattack on a Denver college with hopes to restore their incapacitated systems, university officials said. Campus le...

New Mexico considers cannabis subsidies, crime expungement

SANTA FE – A Democrat-backed bill to legalize recreational marijuana businesses in all towns and counties across New Mexico is getting its first public vetting by lawmakers. A leg...

Autopsy shows mother, son died in murder-suicide in park

FORT COLLINS – Autopsy results indicate that a woman shot and killed her 17-month-old son in Rocky Mountain National Park before killing herself, the Larimer County Coroner’s Office said Mon...