Las Animas County News

It took an act of vandalism, followed by a six-year crusade, to have the Ludlow Massacre site designated a National Historic Landmark.

Prosecutors won't file charges in the death of a Trinidad man after a fight two months ago.

Ritter signed into law House Bill 1317, effectively eliminating access to approximately 20 percent of the 100,000 acres the Army had targeted for acquisition.

Doctors at the state mental hospital have found a Trinidad man competent to stand trial in last year's beating death of an acquaintance.

MODEL There are lonelier parts of Colorado, but the desert east of Trinidad is high on the list.

Those against the Army's Pinon Canyon maneuver site expansion in Southeast Colorado now have a bill in the state legislature that would keep the Army from buying or leasing state trust land in that area.

Trinidad and Walsenburg ranchers find dead cow, calf. Two more Southern Colorado ranchers say they have discovered cows mutilated under strange circumstances.

ANIMAS COUNTY: A rancher in Las Animas County, Colorado made a shocking and gruesome discovery over the weekend.

The rancher said he thinks aliens abducted the cow, carved it up and then dropped it back by the river.

A rancher in Las Animas County, Colorado made a shocking and gruesome discovery over the weekend.

A rancher in Las Animas County made a shocking and gruesome discovery over the weekend.

Residents of this Northern Colorado town were giving no love to their homegrown member of Congress on Sunday.

The Las Animas County undersheriff says Sheriff James Casias is responding well to treatment, after being flown to a Denver hospital with an undisclosed illness.

Colorado International 4-H Youth Exchange delegate Jared Shelden of Branson, Colo., shares information about Norway and Sweden with youths in the Childrena s Center at the 4-H after-school program at Sherman ...

Las Animas County Commissioners will reaffirm their opposition to the Pentagon's proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon training site.

Published January 13, 2009 at 12:09 p.m. Updated January 13, 2009 at 11:56 p.m. WASHINGTON - The Army's estimated cost of buying land to expand Fort Carson's Pinon Canyon training area in southeast Colorado is ...

From the Trinidad Times : "The City of Trinidad has received correspondence from the U.S. Army voicing tentative and unofficial support for the Las Animas County government's desire to tap into a water line ...

One year, one month and eight days after it happened, the shooting death that stunned but didn't surprise a small Colorado town was quietly laid to rest by a prosecutor who called the case "difficult," ...

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Denver historian Thomas Andrews paints a new, broader landscape of a familiar Southern Colorado scene.