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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...

DATE: Oct 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Faith

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...

DATE: Oct 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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...

DATE: Oct 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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...

DATE: Sep 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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...

DATE: Sep 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: Sep 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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...

DATE: Sep 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

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...

DATE: Sep 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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...

DATE: Sep 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Elderly woman dies after pit bull attack at Denver-area home

GOLDEN – An 89-year-old woman who, along with her 12-year-old grandson, was attacked by two pit bulls at a home west of Denver has died. Golden police say the two were attacked Wednesday aft...

DATE: Sep 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man, 71, convicted in 1982 slayings of 2 women

DENVER – A 71-year-old Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town o...

DATE: Sep 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Moth outbreak stresses trees in New Mexico forests

ALBUQUERQUE – An insect outbreak is believed to be causing conifer stands in some central New Mexico forests to lose their needles, further stressing trees amid an ongoing drought. Officials...

DATE: Sep 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico