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Sun, 05 Feb 2017 04:57:55 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations/Narcotics Unit was among the groups, deputies and citizens recently honored for their outstanding service at the annual sheriff’s office awards banquet, held this year at Pueblo Union Depot.
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Sun, 05 Feb 2017 04:57:55 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINExcited nature lovers of all ages flocked to Lake Pueblo State Park on Saturday, hoping to catch a birds-eye view of Pueblo’s favorite winter guests: bald eagles.
Raptor enthusiasts from across Southern Colorado made the annual migration to experienc...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:12:33 GMTTRIBUNE NEWSWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has brushed off a description of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as a “killer,” saying, “What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”
In an interview with Fox News to be broadcast today, interviewer Bill O...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:12:33 GMTBY CATHERINE LUCEY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — Even without an official White House title, Ivanka Trump is proving to be a power player.
Just this past week, the first daughter joined President Donald Trump at a policy meeting with business executives and accompanied him on a trip t...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:13:26 GMTBY PETER STRESCINO
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINWith the state Legislature just passing its first three weeks in session, the hunger for information expressed by the 110 people gathered at the season’s first Legislative Breakfast was perhaps sated by the first course Saturday morning. The full men...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:13:26 GMTBY ERIC TUCKER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — The government on Saturday suspended enforcement of President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban and filed notice it would appeal a judge’s order, plunging the new administration into a crisis that has challenged Trump’s authorit...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 05:13:26 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINOn Saturday, the four-year anniversary of her daughter Kelsie Schellings’s disappearance, Laura Saxton again made the 115-mile drive from her home in Denver to an unassuming Walmart on Pueblo’s South Side with the same question on her mind as she’s h...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 02:14:04 GMTBY SEANNA ADCOX
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSGREENVILLE, S.C. — South Carolina’s first openly gay legislator hails from the unlikeliest of places: an ultra-conservative part of the state that is home to the Christian fundamentalist school Bob Jones University.
Republican Rep. Jason Elliott, a ...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 02:14:04 GMTBY DARLENE SUPERVILLE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPALM BEACH, Fla. — Vice President Mike Pence pledged Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will join the nation’s highest court “one way or the other.”
Pence made the pledge during a speech in Philadelphia to the Federalist Society, a con...

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 02:50:04 GMTBY MICHAEL BALSAMO
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSLOS ANGELES — When Anne Kirkpatrick took the helm at the scandal-ridden Oakland Police Department, she inherited an agency that the city’s mayor likened to a frat house.
The veteran police officer knew she inevitably would be asked what it’s like to...