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Santa Fe Archdiocese files plan for $121M abuse settlement

Agreement comes four years after archdiocese filed for bankruptcy reorganization

Video shows officer didn’t know police car was on tracks

DENVER – A police officer in Colorado who arrested a woman who was seriously injured when the parked patrol car she was in was struck by a freight train said he did not realize he had stoppe...

New Mexico AG wants state's anti-corruption law strengthened

Court removed ‘necessary tool to prosecute public officials,’ Balderas says

Rare 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript returned to Greece from U.S.

ATHENS, Greece — A U.S. museum has returned a valuable 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript to a monastery in northern Greece it was looted from by Bulgarian forces more than a century ago to...

Some New Mexico lawmakers debate higher tax rate for alcohol

SANTA FE – New Mexico has the worst rate in the nation for alcohol-related deaths at nearly 2,000 people per year and some lawmakers are debating whether the state tax on booze should be hig...

FBI: Jetliner evacuated in Albuquerque after security threat

ALBUQUERQUE — An American Airlines flight from Texas to New Mexico was evacuated Sunday after landing at the Albuquerque airport because of a security threat, authorities said. All 179 peopl...

Albuquerque Starbucks votes to unionize, 1st store in state

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico is poised to have its first unionized Starbucks store, organizers say. A majority of rank-and-file workers at an Albuquerque location of the Seattle coffee giant vot...

Body of famed U.S. extreme skier from Telluride recovered in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal – The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepal's...

Classic movie has Colorado town scrambling to revise lewdness law

DENVER – A Denver suburb’s plan to show a nearly 50-year-old movie at its arts center has officials scrambling to revamp the town’s indecency laws. The Denver Post reports the city of Pa...

New Mexico allows funds for prosecutions in ‘Rust’ shooting

SANTA FE – New Mexico has granted funds to pay for possible prosecutions connected to last year’s fatal film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin, the Santa Fe New Mexican...

Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies at 81

LOS ANGELES – Pharoah Sanders, the influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced. He was 81. Sanders, also kn...

Colorado parents charged for toddler’s fentanyl poisoning, death

BRIGHTON – A grand jury in Colorado has indicted two parents on charges of first-degree murder after their toddler died from fentanyl poisoning earlier this year. The indictment released on...