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Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:37:21 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINArrests
Richard Joseph Baca, 53, of the 100 block of Colorado Avenue, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of identity theft. He was being held at jail in lieu of $12,895 bail.
Melanie Corona, 27, of the 1600 block of Englewood Drive, was arrested Su...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:38:04 GMTBY ANTHONY A. MESTAS
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINEarlier this month, the Pueblo Charter Lions Club roared into its regular meeting on the first floor of the grandiose Vail Hotel in the heart of Pueblo’s Union Street Historic District.
The group’s president, Corry Higbee, called the meeting to order...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:52:07 GMTBY TAMMY WEBBER AND JOHN FLESHER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSCHICAGO — The night before Donald Trump’s inauguration, five environmental lawyers filed a federal court brief defending an Obama administration clean-water rule that the new president and his Republican allies have targeted for elimination, consider...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:24:03 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINTerminally ill patients in Pueblo County who seek medical assistance to end their lives with dignity will likely have to go elsewhere to find it.
Both St. Mary Corwin and Parkview Medical Centers have opted out of providing aid-in-dying services desp...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:30:08 GMTBY PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTANPresident Donald Trump’s intent to round up undocumented immigrants by deputizing state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws can’t be done without consent of those agencies.
That’s one reason Trump’s executive order this week threaten...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:57:39 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINIt is Germany’s biggest bash, a time for Mardi Gras-style merry making and political mockery that leads up to the season of Lent.
And on a much smaller, but no less outlandish scale, it was held in Pueblo for the fifth time.
Saturday’s Fasching Winte...

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:57:39 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINAn article Friday on the Pueblo City Schools (D60) amended budget process noted that in comparison to last year, district enrollment is down about 1,000 students.
That number was derived by comparing this year’s “actual pupil count” (16,629) with 201...

Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:02:04 GMTDue to print production issues, some deliveries of The Pueblo Chieftain's Sunday edition will be delayed.
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Sun, 29 Jan 2017 06:08:02 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINApproximately 80 Puebloans of all ages and demographics converged on the Robert H. Rawlings Public Library on Saturday to watch a screening of a National Geographic film and engage in a moderated discussion about the critical environmental issue of c...

Sun, 29 Jan 2017 06:08:03 GMTBY PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe soil under Black Hills Energy’s property Downtown is not laced with contamination and could have a wide array of uses for redevelopment, utility officials told The Pueblo Chieftain’s editorial board last week.
While there has been a broad communi...