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The person who made the original 911 call was also injured but declined medical treatment. Several nearby agencies were called in to help find the suspect. A manhunt was launched, but officials were hampered by the night sky and low fog in the morning, Yowell said. The suspect was later found about 1,000 yards from the shooting scene with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was dead. The name and age of the suspect were not released. A 62-mile stretch of Highway 40/287 was closed from Limon to K...

PHOTO: Lincoln County Deputy Michael Hutton, Who Was Shot Multiple Times In Ambush, Gives Thumbs Up At Hospital CBS Denver 2 hrs ago Syndicated Local – CBS Denver (CBS4) – A deputy who was shot several times in an ambush in eastern Colorado early Thursday morning is in serious condition at the hospital. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office shared a photo of Deputy Michael Hutton giving a thumbs up from his hospital bed. The sheriff’s office called him a “hero” in th...

Norman Lloyd was not too impressed with director Peter Weir when Weir asked him to audition for the role of the headmaster in Dead Poets Society in 1988. After all, he had been working in showbusiness for around 65 years by then and was one of the stars of hit series St Elsewhere. But Weir was Australian and had never seen the US hospital drama. Lloyd, who was in his seventies, did audition and he got the part of the stern principal at the stuffy private school, alongside Robin Williams’s lib...

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Actor Norman Lloyd has died at the age of 106. Lloyds son, Michael Lloyd, said his father died Tuesday at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Lloyd was known for playing Mr. Nolan in "Dead Poets Society" and was nominated for two Emmy awards for producing the TV series "The Name of the Game" in 1970 and the made-for-television movie "Steambath" in 1974. His acting days date clear back to Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre troupe and was part of its very first production: a Bro...

All Coloradans are now eligible for a vaccine All Coloradans 12 and older are eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine, and all Coloradans 18 and older are eligible to receive the Moderna or Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine. We are coordinating with local public health agencies, health care providers, pharmacies, and diverse community partners to distribute the vaccine as equitably and efficiently as possible.  We continue to update this page with additional vaccine locations as they become a...

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal PUERTOCITO DE LA PIEDRA LUMBRE – That’s a lot of name for a next-to-nothing place on N.M. 283 just west of I-25 and south of Las Vegas. But according to the historical markers here, there’s more to it than is apparent. This is where the storied Santa Fe Trail, a major commercial road running about 900 miles from Missouri to New Mexico, was born nearly 200 years ago. Visitors to Fort Union National Monument, near Watrous, see the remnants of fort walls...

True West Magazine Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State’s colorful Carbon County Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in Wyoming (maybe the West) is the pair of shoes at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins. They might appear to be just simple leather shoes, and they are…except that the leather is the skin of Big Nose George Parrott.  When on a history tour of Carbon County, Wyoming, a key stop is Encampment’s Grand Encampment Museum, a superior co...

True West Magazine Al Sieber & U.S. Troops vs. Na-ti-o-tish’s Apaches One of the scouts spots the Apaches waiting in ambush on the north side of the canyon.  July 17, 1882 Apache leader Na-ti-o-tish (center) positions his warriors along a narrow gorge eight miles north of the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona. They have built rifle pits and stacked  rock wings adjacent to large pine trees, awaiting a small troop of soldiers (55 men) who will pass, single file on horseback, directly below...

Pixabay The new wind farm is located 20 miles south of Seibert, Colo., within Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties, and is within the service territory of Tri-State member K.C. Electric Association. Crossing Trails, which was developed and constructed, and is owned and operated by EDPR NA, consists of 20 Vestas V150 4.3 MW and five Vestas V136 3.6 MW wind turbines . Crossing Trails will produce enough electricity to annually power the equivalent of approximately 45,000 average Colorado homes. Wit...