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Sun, 08 Jan 2017 05:58:02 GMTBY ZACH HILLSTROM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINSnow lovers across Pueblo weren’t the only ones to enjoy the lingering winter weather this weekend, as animals at the Pueblo Zoo enjoyed a snow day of their own on Saturday.
Lions, camels, zebras, red pandas and more, romped around their snow-blanke...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 06:30:03 GMTBY STEVE HENSON
MANAGING EDITORA reader wrote a letter to Tell It to The Chieftain recently to criticize the Associated Press’ bias and to encourage The Chieftain to make sure such bias is eliminated.
Another reader wrote to urge The Chieftain to challenge and fact-check every sta...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 04:26:10 GMTBY RACHEL LA CORTE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOLYMPIA, Wash. — As Washington state prepares to swear in its first blind lieutenant governor, the Senate has undergone a makeover that incorporates Braille into that chamber’s floor sessions.
On a recent day just weeks before the start of the legis...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 04:46:32 GMTBY JILL COLVIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that “only ‘stupid’ people or fools” would dismiss closer ties with Russia, and he seemed unswayed after his classified briefing on an intelligence report that accused Moscow of meddling on his be...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 05:02:04 GMTBY JONATHAN DREW AND BEN FINLEY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDURHAM, N.C. — Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes. Thousands of people lost power and forecasters warned of blizzard-like conditions from Virginia to parts o...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 05:04:02 GMTGabriel Donovan Belarde, 25, of the 2200 block of E. 12th Street, was arrested Friday on suspicion of second degree burglary. He was being held at the Pueblo County jail without bail pending a court appearance.

Craig Daniel Hoyt, 31, of the 30100 ...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 01:28:10 GMTBY KELLI KENNEDY AND CURT ANDERSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida was charged Saturday and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Esteban Santiago, 26, told investiga...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 02:30:03 GMTBY MARK STEVENSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors said Saturday they are searching for a gunman who opened fire on an official of the U.S. consulate in the western city of Guadalajara.
The Attorney General’s Office said the official was wounded in the attack Friday...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 02:30:03 GMTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSMEXICO CITY — Looting largely subsided in Mexico following a 20-percent hike in gasoline prices, but protests continued on Saturday
Official in Veracruz, one of the states hardest-hit by the looting on Wednesday and Thursday, said some neighborhood ...

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 02:32:01 GMTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSMINNEAPOLIS — An inventory of Prince’s estate submitted to a probate court in Minnesota shows he had acquired tens of millions of dollars’ worth of real estate and other personal property before he died last year.
Much of the value of his estate has...