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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...

Utah police say body of slain college student recovered

SALT LAKE CITY – The body of a slain college student has been recovered in a Utah canyon about 85 miles away from a backyard in Salt Lake City where other remains were found last week, polic...

Colorado town honors Army sergeant, rallies around widow

FLORISSANT – It was in the middle of the night, a time that seemed like the sun would never rise on Independence Day, when Vickie Robbins came home to this outpost of Teller County, as good ...

FBI: Shiprock-area man arrested in homicide of woman

FARMINGTON – The FBI says an 18-year-old Shiprock-area man has been arrested in the killing of a woman on the Navajo Nation’s reservation in northwestern New Mexico. According to ...

9 rescued from Poudre River

Raft overturns on Roaring Fork

Walmart plans to cease gun sales at New Mexico stores

SANTA FE – Walmarts in New Mexico plan to stop selling guns later this month after a new state law expanded background checks to nearly all gun purchases. The law that took effe...

Firework blamed for sparking fire near homes in Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION – Authorities in western Colorado say an illegal firework set off by a juvenile started a brush fire that briefly led to the evacuation of seven homes. The Daily Se...

High-elevation avalanche debris could fuel bark-beetle threat

ASPEN – Avalanche debris in Colorado’s high country could provide fresh breeding grounds for the forest-destroying bark beetle, but a U.S. Forest Service supervisor says there’s little the a...

Colorado’s Arapahoe Basin Ski Area wraps up ski season

FRISCO – Officials with the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in central Colorado say the resort’s ski season ended with an Independence Day celebration. Spokeswoman Katherine Fuller said t...

Shrinking rural New Mexico villages putting churches at risk

SANTA FE – Shrinking populations in rural New Mexico villages are putting aging churches at risk because the buildings aren’t receiving the same upkeep as previous generations. Th...

BYU helping NASA prepare for human mission to Mars

PROVO, Utah – Researchers at Brigham Young University are helping with a NASA-sponsored project measuring the electrical charge and size of dust particles on Mars. The BYU group i...