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A whole town's police department just quit in one day
A town in the US state of Colorado has been left without any police after the entire department quit in one day. The resignation of police marshal Tim Bradley prompted the town’s three other volunteer officers to do the same – leaving nearby El Paso County and Teller County sheriff’s offices to look after the town of Green Mountain Falls. Residents were apparently offered no explanation for the sudden departure of their police force...
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Colorado Court: Ruling Stands That Baker Can't Cite Religion
The Colorado Supreme Court refused Monday to take up the case of a suburban Denver baker who would not make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, letting stand a lower court's ruling that the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner cannot cite his Christian beliefs in refusing service. The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the development.
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468 Sq. Ft. Off-Grid Tiny Cabin in Colorado
This is a 468 sq. ft. off-grid tiny cabin (for sale) in Colorado on 40 acres. From the outside, you’ll notice it has a wonderful, large covered porch. When you go inside, you’ll find a living area, kitchen, dining table, downstairs bedroom with bunk beds, and an upstairs sleeping loft.
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The Train That Saved Denver
decade ago, travelers arriving at Denver’s sprawling new airport would look out over a vast expanse of flat, prairie dog-infested grassland and wonder if their plane had somehow fallen short of its destination. The $4.9 billion airport—at 53 square miles, larger than Manhattan—was derided as being “halfway to Kansas,” and given the emptiness of the 23-mile drive to the city, it felt that way. Last month, arriving visitors boarded the first trains headed for downtown...
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Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows
Despite claims of an increase in "drugged drivers," Colorado's roads have gotten safer.
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Crews battle fire at Arapahoe County apartment complex
Multiple Denver-area fire crews battled large flames at an apartment complex near Yale and Ulster in Arapahoe County Monday afternoon.
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Colorado combats a new breed of drug traffickers
Three packages were mailed one after another, each shipped from the same Colorado post office to the same Houston business in the name of the same fictitious person. And each held 23 pounds of pricey, potent pot. As Colorado is increasingly seen as the Napa Valley of cannabis, authorities say they are squaring off against a new breed of drug traffickers. They aren’t part of Mexican cartels, aren’t wielding military-style rifles and many don’t even have previous criminal records.
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The Planned Parenthood Shooting Survivors Finally Speak Out
The workers who survived the 2015 shooting can't tell you their names - but they want you to know their story. By Jim Rendon.
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Report: Colorado weed is now a behemoth with a $2.4 billion economic impact
Colorado’s burgeoning legal marijuana industry has quickly made gains on the state’s largest industries — including the mighty oil-and-gas sector — and contributed an economic impact of $2.39 billion in 2015, according to research released Tuesday. The cannabis industry, the fastest-growing business sector in the state, also is credited with funding 18,005 direct and ancillary full-time jobs in 2015, according to the report from the Marijuana Policy Group, a Denver-based economic and market research firm that consults with businesses and governments on marijuana policy.
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Daylight saving a dim idea whose time should end | GJSentinel.com
Grand Junction - This “daylight saving” they talk about every winter and spring doesn’t save any daylight at all. It’s a shell game
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Could Colorado’s proposed health care plan be a model for the rest of us?
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it? By Anders Fremstad.
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Medical marijuana and new hope for Florida family
Rich and Kim Muszynski know when their 5-year-old daughter, Abby, is about to have a grand mal seizure because her pupils enlarge, and she'll seem to fixate at something in the distance that only she can see. Then it starts. Abby's extremities shake. She gasps for air. By the time she turned 3, Abby had tried about eight different anti-seizure medications. None of them worked very well. Panicked to see their daughter getting worse and worse, the Muszynskis drove three hours to Orlando to see Dr. Ngoc Minh Le, a board certified pediatric neurologist and epileptologist.
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Lightning over Colorado
Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, nobody knows exactly how lightning is produced. What is known is that charges slowly separate in some clouds causing rapid electrical discharges (lightning), but how electrical charges get separated in clouds remains a topic of much research. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder.
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Awake in the Night
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. Half a decade later, the single mother of five is still working to build the better life she was promised. By Robert Sanchez.
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Colorado To Kill Some Mountain Lions, Bears To Boost Mule Deer Numbers
The state plans to kill up to 15 mountain lions and 25 black bears beginning in the spring. Some biologists worry the plan ignores the threats of habitat destruction and energy development.
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Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: A Sober Utopia
In a remote corner of Colorado, a radical experiment is underway to rehabilitate the state’s most downtrodden residents. By Will McGrath.
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Controversy erupts after Colorado animal sanctuary kills all its animals
The owners of an animal sanctuary in Colorado that recently euthanized all of its animals claim they were forced to do so by the government. Owners of the Lion’s Gate Sanctuary said they had to humanely euthanize three lions, three tigers and five bears in April after the Elbert County Board of Commissioners denied their request to move to a new location. Dr. Joan Laub and her partner Peter Winney wanted to build a sanctuary on a 45-acre property near Elizabeth instead, according to The Coloradoan.
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Colorado Adds PTSD As A Medical Marijuana Condition
On Monday Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 17 into law. This new bill allows patients suffering from PTSD to receive a doctor’s OK to use medical marijuana to treat their symptoms. Colorado doctors could begin recommending medical marijuana for treatment of PTSD in as soon as a week.
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Police searches drop dramatically in states that legalized marijuana
Traffic searches by highway patrols in Colorado and Washington dropped by nearly half after the two states legalized marijuana in 2012. That also reduced the racial disparities in the stops, according to a new analysis of police data, but not by much. Blacks and Hispanics are still searched at higher rates than whites.
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Camping teen awakens to 'crunching sound' as bear bites his head
A camp staffer at a Christian summer camp in Colorado received medical care after he was made awake early Sunday by a bear chewing on his head. The 19-year-old said that he thought he was dreaming as he heard a "crunching sound," only to wake up in "immense pain" as the black bear attempted to drag him away from the Glacier View Ranch campsite, Colorado Parks & Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill told CNN.
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