Shane Benjamin
Position: Herald Staff Writer
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Durango art thief sentenced in ‘Afghan Girl’ heist

Gallery owner: Restitution ‘a drop in the bucket’

Formal charges filed against men arrested in child sex sting

One lawyer says client ‘entrapped’

Hesperus man sentenced for child sex assault

Jury convicted Edmund Marx on six felony counts

Judge delays decision in Cortez man’s stabbing case

District Judge Jeffrey Wilson is having a tough time deciding whether to accept a plea agreement that would grant a probationary sentence to a Cortez man who stabbed another man with a knife...

More suspects arrested in Four Corners sex sting

Six men face charges for soliciting a minor

Three Four Corners men arrested in child sex sting

Operation targeted people seeking minors

Former Mancos marshal John Cox gets probation for DUI

John Cox ordered to give community service, abstain from alcohol

Black students unite at Fort Lewis College

FLC group supports minorities, promotes diversity

Hospital releases kids injured in deadly Colorado crash

The final two children involved in a fatal car crash Monday in La Plata County have been released from an Albuquerque hospital, a spokesman said Thursday. Arianna Aguilar, 1, and ...

Tourism at Mesa Verde posts sizable increase

More than a half-million people visited the park in 2015

Kids in deadly Colorado crash didn’t wear seat belts

Driver cited, and 3 people remain hospitalized

Unknowns remain about marijuana’s impact on public health

Colorado is more than two years into its social experiment allowing the sale and use of marijuana for recreational purposes, yet much remains unknown about the drug’s effect on public health...