KEENESBURG – Authorities have arrested two more students in connection with an alleged threat against a northern Colorado high school.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office says the students, whose names and ages have not been released, were arrested Friday after investigators learned they planned to carry through with a violent plot that was discovered earlier in the week.

Two students were arrested Monday after sheriff’s deputies and detectives were made aware of a potential threat involving weapons at Weld Central High School in Keenesburg. A third student was arrested Tuesday.

Authorities say the students who were arrested Friday were not part of the original plan but were trying to pick up where their friends left off.

Details of the alleged plot have not been released.

New Mexico wildfire containment at 50%

SILVER CITY, N.M. – Crews have containment lines around 50 percent of a southwestern New Mexico wildfire but say weather conditions could spark smaller fires.

Fire managers said crews were working Saturday along the edge of the 9-square-mile Signal Fire burning in the Gila National Forest.

They said high winds and dryness make the ignition of spot fires within the blaze’s perimeters extremely likely.

Authorities said the rising temperatures will make the next five days a critical period for fire activity.

Nearly 700 firefighters and other personnel are assigned to the fire. Aircraft also are on hand to drop retardant and water on the fire.

The human-caused fire started burning in timber and grass in rugged terrain about 10 miles north of Silver City on Sunday.

New charges filed in Aspen murder case

ASPEN – Prosecutors have filed additional charges against three people accused of killing a prominent Aspen woman.

The Aspen Daily News reports William Styler and his wife, Nancy Styler, along with Katherine Carpenter, each were charged May 7 with being an accessory to first-degree murder. The charges, unsealed by a judge Friday, join the initial counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Authorities say 57-year-old Nancy Pfister was found bludgeoned to death in her home Feb. 26.

District Attorney Sherry Caloia says the accessory charges mean the Stylers and/or Carpenter helped one another cover up the murder, helped the culprits get away, or both.

The Stylers had rented Pfister’s home while she was in Australia. Carpenter was an assistant to Pfister, whose parents co-founded the Buttermilk ski area.

Online map shows gas-, oil-spill locations

CARLSBAD, N.M. – A new website is mapping where oil- and gas-related spills take place in New Mexico and Colorado to increase public awareness about such incidents.

The Carlsbad Current-Argus reported Saturday that the Center for Western Priorities has been gathering data on spills in New Mexico and Colorado for an interactive map.

The Denver-based, nonpartisan organization monitors spills caused by crude oil, produced water and methane and condensate releases and then shows their locations on an online map.

The state’s Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Oil Conservation Division says oil- and gas-related spills occur about twice a day.

Officials say while the oil and gas industry has grown in recent years, so have the number of spills.

The state says more than 900 spills were reported in New Mexico in 2013.

Hash oil blamed for explosion

COLORADO SPRINGS – Police say two people have been arrested for causing an explosion while making hash oil in a Manitou Springs apartment.

The Gazette reported that 23-year-old Audrey Horowitz and 18-year-old Michael Austin were arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson, reckless endangerment and child abuse after the explosion early Friday morning. Horowitz’s 3-year-old daughter was in the apartment at the time.

No one was injured in the blast, which blew out the windows of the apartment.

Hash oil typically is made by packing the castoff leaves and stems of pot plants into a pipe and pouring highly flammable butane through it. The concoction is heated to make the potent oil for far cheaper than it can be bought in stores.

‘Easy Rider’ festival honors Dennis Hopper

TAOS, N.M. – To celebrate the legacy of Dennis Hopper and his iconic counterculture film “Easy Rider,” motorcyclists and movie fanatics from as far away as Canada traveled to northern New Mexico this weekend.

They gathered Saturday in the dusty, adobe-encircled plaza at Ranchos de Taos to kick off what town officials hope will be an annual event – Dennis Hopper Day.

Saturday would have been the late actor’s 78th birthday.

Hopper first came to New Mexico in the late 1960s to scout locations for “Easy Rider.” Shot on a shoestring budget, the independent film summed up the ’60s, romanticized the open road and ended up revolutionizing Hollywood.

The motorcyclists rode past some of Hopper’s old haunts, from the bridge that spans the Rio Grande Gorge to the historic Taos Pueblo.

‘Breaking Bad’ car wash in Albuquerque sold

ALBUQUERQUE – The Albuquerque car wash made famous in the hit TV series “Breaking Bad” has been sold.

Tucson, Ariz.-based Mister Car Wash announced last week it was buying all six Albuquerque locations of Octopus Car Wash, including the one that regularly appeared in the hit AMC show.

Octopus CEO Joel Jurkens said signs will change in a few months.

His father, John Jurkens, opened his first Octopus Car Wash in 1953 in Illinois. The family purchased the Albuquerque locations in 1967.

“Breaking Bad,” which ended last year and was filmed in Albuquerque, followed former high school teacher Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston. White produced methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul.

The car wash, named A1A in the series, was used to launder drug money.

Associated Press