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On Wednesday, Alec Larson, a Rifle resident and local carpet cleaner was given a “Life Saving Award” for his life-saving actions on April 11 from the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department.  Larson was heading to work...

Multiple defendants appeared in District Court on Thursday, ranging from allegations of burglary and kidnapping to drug distribution and tragic child endangerment.  Janvier Pinkard Janvier Pinkard  faced the court on Thursday regarding his December 2020...

'I am proud of what this pilot program achieved right out of the gate as a first of its-kind program,' Mayor Jim Kenney said.

"Hopefully [we'll] be able to save someone's life whether it's a child or adult maybe it will open someone's eyes to the reality of what this drug does" Larson told KREX he's helping a production team make a documentary about Sophia's story. "Hopefully [we'll] be able to save someone's life whether it's a child or adult maybe it will open someone's eyes to the reality of what this drug does," Larson said. In our interview Lars...

News about educational achievements among students from west central Minnesota.

Several questions emerged in Garfield County District Court on Thursday over whether Daniel Alvarado felt remorseful in his association with the death of a small child.

Stephanie Alvarado is now convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 32 years in prison for the 2019 death of her 5-year-old daughter, the result of her accidentally ingesting methamphetamine while her mother and two others were using. But the cases against the co-defendants in the case, Stephanie’s cousin Daniel Alvarado and friend Bertha Karina Ceballos-Romo, continue to drag on. Ceballos-Romo, 29, hasn’t appeared in court for months and was deported last fall, but the case agains...

Stephanie Alvarado. Sobbing as she took the stand before Garfield County District Judge Denise Lynch Friday morning, Stephanie Alvarado took full responsibility for her young daughter’s death. “The day I laid my child to rest, I wanted to go into the ground next to her,” she said in a prepared statement. “I didn’t want to leave her alone in the dirt.” Alvarado, accused in 2019 of not seeking medical attention for her 5-year-old daughter, Sophia Larson, after she fatally ingested bon...