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Flagler, for free Sofia Jeremias © Marc Piscotty, for the Deseret News A billboards promoting “Free Land” off of I-70 greet passing motorists in Flagler, Colorado, on Friday Dec. 4, 2020. Flagler is a rarity in the West — it’s offering land without a price tag to someone willing to stake a future in the town and open a business that will provide a much needed infusion of jobs in the small Colorado Plains town of 620 people. Flagler is near Exit 395 on I-70 and about 120 miles east of Denver. For the past 15 years, two billboards have stood on the city limits of Flag...

For the past 15 years, two billboards have stood on the city limits of Flagler, Colorado, waiting to greet those who may be looking for a place to land. From 10 feet in the air overlooking I-70 and Flagler, the two signs deliver their proclamatory message: “Got Land! Got Water! All we need is you.” Flagler is a rarity in the West — it’s offering land without a price tag to someone willing to stake a future in the town. Situated in eastern Colorado, this small town is an agricultural community — akin more to the tilled-and-planted Midwest than the Rocky Mountain reveries most envisi...

DPS arrest woman after finding over $1.3 million of drugs during traffic stop VIDEO: DPS arrest woman after finding over $1.3 million of drugs during traffic stop By Tamlyn Cochran | January 15, 2021 at 5:59 PM CST - Updated January 15 at 10:18 PM AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The Texas Department of Public Safety seized five pounds of heroin and more than 14 pounds of cocaine Wednesday, after a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle in Carson County, according to DPS. At approximately, 1:45 p.m., a DPS Trooper stopped a 2007 Ford Expedition traveling east on I-40 near Conway, for a t...

5 Amarillo residents arrested for online solicitation of a minor during multi-agency operation VIDEO: 5 Amarillo residents arrested for online solicitation of a minor during multi-agency operation By Kaitlin Johnson and Vania Patino | December 16, 2020 at 12:19 PM CST - Updated December 16 at 10:21 PM AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Law enforcement arrested five Amarillo residents for soliciting sex online of a minor during a multi-agency operation. On December 10 and 11, DPS Special Agents, the Amarillo Police Department, Hutchinson County and Carson County Sheriff’s Offices and the Randal...

For the third consecutive week, the overwhelming majority of counties in the state are at Level Red (Severe) on the COVID-19 dial dashboard maintained by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. And while some data is improving, if only marginally, in many counties, others are on the cusp of moving to Level Purple (Extreme), a designation that would trigger a return to stay-at-home orders, because they're in a region — in this case, Colorado's extreme southeast corner — that has no intensive-care unit beds available as of December 16. Counties land at Level Red if their t...