Las Animas County News

Norton opposes condemning additional Pinon Canyon land Senate candidate Jane Norton said Wednesday that she doesn't want the federal government to condemn land to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.

State Troopers are investigating a deadly chard that happened in Las Animas County early Sunday morning.

One man is dead after troopers say he rolled his truck. The Colorado State Patrol is investigating the accident in Las Animas County.

McInnis says Ritter 'in over his head'; Disses Not 1 More Acre Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis on Thursday stopped in Pueblo to tout his campaign plank of job creation and to criticize incumbent Gov.

Connect Colorado is collecting data needed to build maps of broadband service availability in the state and Weld County has been selected as one of three counties to serve as a pilot study area for the Connect Colorado Project.

IN PARTICULAR...THE AREA RECEIVING THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AT 510 PM MDT...WAS THE TECOLOTE CREEK BASIN...JUST SOUTHEAST OF KIM.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD ADVISORY FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... WEST CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THE MAURICIO CANYON BURN SCAR...BETWEEN THE SPANISH PEAKS AND AGUILAR... * UNTIL 915 PM MDT * AT 612 PM MDT...PUEBLO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF ...

When she was first found - seen through the cracked opening of a Trinidad motel room door - she was lying on the floor naked, bleeding and bound at the hands and feet with telephone cords.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BACA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SOUTHEASTERN BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... SOUTHWESTERN PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THIS INCLUDES LAMAR... * UNTIL 1245 AM ...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED AN * URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... THIS INCLUDES TRINIDAD... * UNTIL 715 PM MDT * AT 425 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL BETWEEN HOEHNE AND TRINCHERA MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH.

COMBINED WITH EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW AND THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...THIS WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS AND ALONG NORTHERN SLOPES OF THE RATON RIDGE THIS AFTERNOON.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING is in effect for western Baca and eastern Las Animas counties until 9:45 PM Storms have move in from northern New Mexico, and continue to move northward at 5 mph.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL FREMONT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... EAST CENTRAL SAGUACHE COUNTY IN CENTRAL COLORADO... CUSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL HUERFANO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 445 PM MDT... AT 419 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE ...

A tornado watch continues in effect until 9 p.m. for far southeastern Colorado, including Baca, Brent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas and Otero counties.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS are in effect for southeastern Huerfano and west central Las Animas counties until 7:15 PM, and for central Bent county until 7:30 PM.

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.