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Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:30:02 GMTBY MARIA DANILOVA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed school choice advocate Betsy DeVos as Education secretary by the narrowest of margins, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie in a historic vote.
Two Republicans joined Democrats in the unsuc...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:54:04 GMTBY LOLITA C. BALDOR
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — The Afghanistan war is getting little attention so far from the Trump administration despite the protracted struggle to rein in the Taliban and battle a stubborn Islamic State affiliate there.
America’s longest military fight is now in ...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:58:05 GMTBY ERIC TUCKER AND SUDHIN THANAWALA
ASSOCIATED PRESSSAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump’s travel ban faced its biggest legal test yet Tuesday as a panel of federal judges prepared to hear arguments from the administration and its opponents about two fundamentally divergent views of the executive br...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:42:48 GMTBY LISA LERER
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — A House committee voted on Tuesday to eliminate an independent election commission charged with helping states improve their voting systems as President Donald Trump erroneously claims widespread voter fraud cost him the popular vote.
Th...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:45:10 GMTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSBISMARCK, N.D. — The Army said Tuesday that it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed four-state project.
However, construction...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:51:58 GMTBY TRACY HARMON
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINCANON CITY — A 37-year-old Penrose man was sentenced to three years probation as part of a plea agreement reached Tuesday in connection with an illegal hash oil extraction lab and the death of a 2-month-old baby.
Claxton Wilson, who faced a total of ...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:12:03 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe recently approved amended budget for Pueblo County School District 70 reveals an increase of $4 million from last fall’s adopted budget.
The district’s student count is 9,648, with the funded full-time equivalent count at 9,246. As the district ...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:30:44 GMTBY TRACY HARMON
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINCANON CITY — A 24-year-old Brighton man arrested Monday for sexual assault on a child was working as an assistant coach during a brief student-teaching stint here last year.
Austin Trahern is being investigated for sexual assault on a child by a pers...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:31:35 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe Pueblo City Schools’ (D60) decision to deny a charter application for Pueblo Expeditionary School has left the applicant feeling he got a raw deal.
Logan Gogarty’s bid to obtain a D60 charter was nixed by the board of education during the same me...

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:31:38 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe second of three people who were arrested on suspicion of being accessories to Timothy Trujillo in the Devin Clark homicide accepted a plea agreement Monday.
Tina Apodaca, 38, pleaded guilty to the count of accessory to a crime, a Class 4 felony, ...