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Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:22:03 GMTBY MATTHEW LEE AND JOSH LEDERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — A number of senior career diplomats are leaving the State Department after the Trump administration accepted their resignations from presidentially appointed positions.
The State Department said Thursday that several senior management o...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:16:03 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINA man who acted as an accessory to Timothy Trujillo in the killing of Devin Clark and the wounding of two bouncers outside a Downtown tavern last February accepted a plea deal in that incident on Wednesday.
He also accepted a plea in a separate crim...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 05:16:04 GMTBY TRACY HARMON
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINCANON CITY — The Fremont County coroner has released an autopsy report in connection with the 10-year-old homicide of Candace Hiltz, 17, who suffered seven gunshot wounds, any of which could have been fatal.
The unsolved homicide, which occurred at t...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:30:06 GMTThe city of Pueblo is the recipient of a Great Outdoors Colorado Inspire Grant and has a local program called Get Outdoors Pueblo.
The GO Pueblo program is being supported by a number of organizations in the area, including the U.S. Forest Service, P...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:11:13 GMTBY PETER STRESCINO
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINAfter President Donald Trump signed an executive order to build a border wall along the Mexico-U.S. divide, people on both sides of the issue spoke with The Pueblo Chieftain about his action, which fulfilled one of his most oft-repeated campaign prom...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:31:50 GMTThe Colorado State Patrol closed southbound Interstate 25 at mile marker 35 near Aguilar due to a crash that occurred at about 4:50 p.m. The road, about 14 miles south of Walsenburg, was opened at 5:25 p.m. following crash cleanup.
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Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:34:21 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe library at Pueblo Community College got a boost to its resources Wednesday, as a recent partnership with the Pueblo City-County Library District turned PCC’s campus library into a mini-branch of the public library.
While PCC students long have us...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:46:02 GMTAustin Anthony Aragon, 19, of the 1900 block of East Fifth Street, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of second-degree burglary. He was being held at Pueblo County jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Patrick Ismeal Cifredo, 24, of the 1300 block of West Str...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:46:03 GMTClose to $2,500 worth of items were reportedly stolen from the garage of a home on the 2400 block of Crestwood Lane either late Monday or sometime early Tuesday morning.
The victim told police an unknown person entered the garage of his residence som...

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:52:03 GMTColorado Senate Assistant Minority Leader Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, is sponsoring a bill to launch a regional pilot program to provide grants to medical professionals to increase access to life-saving treatment and care for patients battling opioid add...