A New Mexico woman who became ill with flu-like symptoms after returning home from West Africa earlier this month is now under quarantine at an Albuquerque hospital where she is being tested for the Ebola virus.
When I was just a kid—long before the internet existed to either kill off old irrational fears in avalanches of pedantic data or germinate brand new ones in its' rich and fertile fields of bullshit—I had a morbid fear of tornadoes.
You would think that a mayoral election in a town with only 61 registered voters would be a fairly straightforward affair. But the picturesque mountain town of Montezuma, Colorado, somehow managed to turn it into a shit-show, and now everyone is headed to court.
We've all had moments of insatiable curiosity about one dangerous or at least highly-unadvisable thing or another in our lifetimes, mostly in our childhood.
Cowboys can't really afford to be stupid.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is having a hell of a time keeping her satanic groups straight, and the mix-up may require her to make a rather awkward apology.
Lea Olivier says she smokes legally-prescribed medical marijuana to ease her arthritis pain–and thanks to some downright spiteful federal regulations, it's about to leave the elderly southwest Colorado woman homeless.
A Utah teenager is dead after after being accidentally crushed by a pickup truck while she was sunbathing in the driveway of her suburban Salt Lake City-area home.
In the pantheon of things human beings do to alter their state of mind, enjoying a hash brownie honestly ranks somewhere around "standing up too quickly" in terms of the overall danger to society at large.
Officials in Utah say that there was nothing they could do to help a hiker who's dog was injured after attacking a mountain goat because their policy is to spend their resources rescuing people, not pets.
Health officials in Colorado are warning people to stay away from sick or dead rabbits over fears of "rabbit fever," a potentially life-threatening disease. In even more troubling news, there's apparently a need for official reminders not to play with sick or dead rabbits.
The American West has a long and colorful history of men killing each other over the some of the stupidest reasons imaginable.
A week later, the summer monsoons are still pouring down across the Rio Grande Valley, as my wife, Kirbi, and I wait here at Goat Farm for the birth of our son.
A Seattle Police officer has been removed from patrol duty and is under internal investigation after a study showed that he alone was responsible for 80 percent of the city's marijuana citations.
An 8-week-old kitten will be short a leg—if he manages to survive at all—after some shit-sucking knuckle-dragging dickhead decided to toss him against a brick wall from a moving truck.
Like a lot of tourists, Scott Carmitchel of Kansas had himself a helluva time in Las Vegas last weekend, with a $400 hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel, a Caesars Palace shopping spree, a bag of weed and a quartet of hookers helping to keep his spirits high.
Respected neuroscientist Dr. Peter Steinmetz, MD, PhD, didn't really have any specific business at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix last Friday—he says he was just looking for some coffee.
It appears that the gods aren't libertarians, as the first and only bitcoin ATM in the state of Arizona has been seriously damaged by a lightning strike.
A New Mexico man faces felony animal cruelty charges—and a possible federal parole violation—after he allegedly killed the family puppy with a screwdriver and tried to have it served up for dinner.
