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Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:11:29 GMTBY ANTHONY A. MESTAS
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINThe national search for Colorado State University-Pueblo’s next president continues.
The allotted time for people to send in nominations and recommendations for candidates ended Monday, although there is a possibility further materials may arrive in ...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 22:26:08 GMTTwo adult males were reportedly stabbed by each other during a fight Thursday afternoon at a park on the West Side.
A pair of men went to the area of Graham Park near the intersection of West 13th Street and Graham Avenue to fight each other just aft...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:50:19 GMTBY SUDHIN THANAWALA
ASSOCIATED PRESSSAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court in San Francisco has refused to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday wouldn’t block a lower-court rulin...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:54:06 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINAt Avondale Elementary School, an especially ambitious group of English Language Learner students is getting down to business.
Literally.
The Pueblo County School District 70 school is home to the Apache Store, a cute little commissary in which stude...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:54:19 GMTBY PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINPueblo Sen. Leroy Garcia cast the lone vote against Wendy Moser being on the Colorado Public Utilities Commission after sharply questioning the former Black Hills Energy lawyer in the Senate agriculture committee Thursday.
The panel voted 10-1 to con...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:26:19 GMTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says top adviser Kellyanne Conway has been “counseled” after she urged people to buy Ivanka Trump products during an interview on Fox News.
Sean Spicer says: “She’s been counseled, and that’s all we’re going to s...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:24:23 GMTBY TRACY HARMON
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINCANON CITY — A 44-year-old male Canon City High School teacher was arrested Wednesday for investigation of felony sexual assault on a child and sexual exploitation of a child.
Robert Davidson is being held without bail at the Fremont County jail afte...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:42:03 GMTBY VIVIAN SALAMA AND KEN THOMAS
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that comments by his Supreme Court nominee criticizing his attacks on the judiciary were “misrepresented,” even as Republican and Democratic lawmakers vouched for the veracity of the remarks.
Tru...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:42:03 GMTBY ANDREW TAYLOR
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at Republican Sen. John McCain, who has disputed the Trump administration’s insistence that the deadly U.S. military mission in Yemen was “absolutely a success.”
Trump took to Twitter to ass...

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:44:04 GMTTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions has been sworn in as President Donald Trump’s attorney general.
During an Oval Office ceremony, Trump called Sessions a man of integrity and principal, and someone who has devoted his life to the cause of just...