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New Mexico ghost town saloon uses civility to draw crowd

WHITE OAKS, N.M. – A saloon in a New Mexico ghost town attracts regulars with diverse backgrounds and opinions with a promise to “have dialogue.” The No Scum Allowed Saloon in the...

Environmentalists push for changes in New Mexico on beavers

SANTA FE – Environmental advocates in New Mexico are pushing for the state to change its policies about beavers. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that WildEarth Guardians and o...

Jet skier, tuber dead in separate incidents in Colorado

FORT MORGAN – A jet ski rider and a tuber are dead in separate incidents in eastern Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the body of a woman missing since falling off a jet ...

Search for suspected SUV thief locks down crowded Vail hotel

VAIL – A man is under arrest for allegedly stealing an SUV from a valet at knifepoint at a hotel in Vail, keeping hotels guests and partygoers in place while officers searched for him during...

Phoenix trails most big police forces in use of body cams

PHOENIX – A Phoenix police officer yelled obscenities and forced an unarmed black man suspected of shoplifting up against a patrol car. Another aimed his gun at the man’s pregnant fiancee, o...

Guard at women’s prison arrested in attempted pimping case

DENVER – A guard at a Colorado prison for women has been arrested on suspicion of attempted pimping involving a woman who previously served time at the facility, authorities said Friday. ...

N.M. man accused in abuse death of young son surrenders to police

RUIDOSO, N.M. – A southern New Mexico man awaiting trial in the 2018 death of his 2-year-old son and more recently charged with perjury has surrendered to authorities. Prosecutors...

Missing hiker found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – Searchers have found what are thought to be the remains of a 20-year-old Las Vegas man who went missing in November while climbing Rocky Mountain National Park...

Man dies in rafting accident on Arkansas River

SALIDA – Authorities say a man died after the raft he was in flipped on the Arkansas River in southern Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say five people were throw...

National lab to study water in San Juan Basin

FARMINGTON – Federal land managers are partnering with researchers from Sandia National Laboratories to study how oil and gas development could affect water supplies in northwestern New Mexi...

Armed Utah teachers practice responding to school shootings

SPANISH FORK, Utah – Nancy Miramontes had 30 seconds to find the gunman. The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a c...

Taking a look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...