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Mon, 09 Jan 2017 22:48:04 GMTA 37-year-old Canon City man accused of vehicular eluding in separate chases involving both Florence and Canon City police during which one officer was nearly struck, was arrested Sunday in Teller County.
According to Canon City police Sgt. Clint Rob...

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:12:02 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINA structure fire in Walsenburg that started late Sunday night and was battled in high winds caused evacuations and a street closure, and kept fire crews on scene overnight and into Monday afternoon.
The Huerfano County Fire Protection District was di...

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:08:03 GMTA woman who police said is a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that left a bicyclist injured in July has been arrested.
Mariah Apodaca, 21, was wanted on a warrant for hit-and-run involving injury, hit-and-run — failed to notify police, tampering with p...

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:10:02 GMTMonica Rae Hernandez, 49, of Colorado Springs, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of unlawful possession of a controlled substance. She was being held at Pueblo County jail in lieu of $5,000 bail....

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:24:02 GMTBY ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINDENVER — A Southern Colorado inmate who said six months ago that prison medical staff deliberately denied him proper treatment for two years for a serious medical issue has died.
Dennis Choquette was in prisons in Las Animas and Canon City from 2014 ...

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:25:24 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINTRINIDAD — Law enforcement officials are on the hunt for an armed robber who hit a downtown Trinidad bank shortly before closing time Thursday.
With several inches of snow on the ground, a gunman entered the Bank of the West on the 200 block of North...

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:27:19 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINFirst the snow, then the wind.
With remnants of a 6-inch snowfall still on the ground, gusts as high as 97 miles per hour rocked Southern Colorado on Monday, causing damage that included felled trees and power lines and vehicles blown off the highway...

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:27:19 GMTBY JONATHAN LEMIRE
AND JULIE PACE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump’s influential son-in-law Jared Kushner will join him in the White House as a senior adviser, transition officials said Monday, putting the young real estate executive in position to exert broad sway over both d...

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:28:16 GMTBY DEB RIECHMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — The U.S. is economically blacklisting five more Russians, including a senior law enforcement official in President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Under the sanctions, their assets are blocked and people in the United States are generally ...

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:32:06 GMTBY ALAN FRAM
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — Democrats planned hours of Senate speeches Monday to condemn the Republican push to obliterate President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, as the chamber’s GOP leader stood by his party’s plans to void the law and replace it later.
W...