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Colorado jury awards $3.6M to man assaulted in nursing home

DENVER – A Colorado jury has awarded $3.6 million to a 76-year-old retired school teacher with dementia who was assaulted by another resident at a senior living center in a Denver suburb. ...

Border officials alarmed by migrants abandoned in desert

PHOENIX – Smugglers in recent weeks have been abandoning large groups of Guatemalan and other Central American migrants in Arizona’s harsh cactus-studded Sonoran Desert near the border with ...

Colorado homeowner shoots, kills apparent burglar

COLORADO SPRINGS – Police in Colorado Springs say a homeowner shot and killed an apparent burglar over the weekend. Investigators determine 30-year-old Houston Malachai Cookson wa...

Records: N.M. authorities raid ex-pageant director’s home

ALBUQUERQUE – Court documents show the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office has raided the home of the New Mexico beauty pageant’s former executive director. KOB-TV reports that i...

Things to know: The plan to save the ailing Colorado River

DENVER – The Colorado River is ailing, afflicted by a prolonged drought and increasing demand from seven Southwestern U.S. states that depend on the waterway. Those states tentati...

Colorado lawmakers urge colleague to resign over old arrests

DENVER – Colorado’s state House leaders called Wednesday for the resignation of a fellow Democrat after a report that he had been arrested years ago for investigation of domestic violence. ...

450 drones detected flying illegally near Balloon Fiesta

ALBUQUERQUE – Hundreds of Balloon Fiesta attendees have been caught flying their drones in restricted areas at Albuquerque’s hot air balloon festival. KRQE-TV reported Tuesday tha...

2 teen girls faces charges stemming from New Mexico shooting

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) – State police have arrested two more suspects – both teenage girls – in connection with a fatal shooting that mistakenly targeted a vehicle traveling along a busy New Me...

Man pleads guilty to three counts of murder in Walmart shooting

BRIGHTON – A Colorado man pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder Wednesday as part of a plea agreement that calls for him to serve life in prison without the possibility of pa...

Search for missing climber suspended because of weather

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – The search for a New Jersey man reported missing in Rocky Mountain National Park in north-central Colorado has been temporarily suspended because of weather. ...

Fire that destroyed 3 homes in western Colorado contained

ASPEN – A wildfire that destroyed three homes and scorched nearly 20 square miles in western Colorado is fully contained. The Aspen Daily News reported Tuesday that recent co...

Los Alamos lab marks milestone with shipment of waste

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have completed the first shipment of waste from a key area at the lab to the federal government’s underground nuclear ...