Las Animas County

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are searching for a bear that swatted a woman sometime early Friday as she, her husband and their child were sleeping in a tent.

Thomas Richard Goodrich

April 13, 1937 - September 13, 2021

Thomas Richard Goodrich was born April 13, 1937, to Loyd and Lenora Norris Goodrich in Trinidad. Tommy and his twin brother, Bobby, were welcomed home by two older siblings, Donna and Leland.

Fire danger returns to eastern Colorado Monday as a surge of warm temperatures continues in the United States

An oil and gas lease sale on federal lands in Kiowa, Las Animas, LIncoln, Rio Blanco and Weld counties totaled more than $1.6 million.

Obituary for Colorado State Representative Kimmii Clark Lewis.

Colorado State Representative Kimmi Clark Lewis died Friday morning following a battle with cancer. She represented Colorado district 64 in the House of Representatives.

Small quakes are common in the southern Colorado area.

Billie Jean Gooden

May 30, 1934 - August 13, 2019

Billie Gooden, 85, of La Junta, passed away unexpectedly August 13, 2019, in Aurora. Billie was born on May 30, 1934, to Bill and Ruby Whitman, and was the second born of six daughters. She married her high school sweetheart, Tom Gooden, June 6, 1952, in Raton, New Mexico. He preceded her in death March 18, 2007. They had four children.

Billie Jean Gooden

May 30, 1934 - August 13, 2019

Funeral services are pending. 

Mrs. Gooden went to be with her Lord following a brief illness in the University Hospital in Denver.

Arrangements are under the direction of Brown Funeral Home.

Second earthquake in two days along the Colorado-New Mexico border.