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Teen bit in head by bear wakes up to ‘crunching sound’
A teen staffer at a Colorado camp fought off a bear after waking up Sunday to find the animal biting his head and trying to drag him away.
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Gordon Klingenschmitt: Americans Won’t Need Healthcare If We Stop Funding Planned Parenthood Because God Will Heal All Disease
Religious Right activist and former Colorado state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt declared on his “Pray In Jesus Name” program last week that Americans would not need healthcare if this nation would simply stop funding Planned Parenthood because, if we do so, “God will heal your diseases.”
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Marijuana taxes are giving Colorado a pot of money to rebuild its crumbling schools
The K-12 school in Deer Trail, Colorado, is in rot. The swimming pool is in such grave shape that students can’t use it anymore. People in wheelchairs have to be lifted up stairs. A sewage leak has closed the coach’s locker room. Even basic security is a problem, as the doors are so out of shape that they can be difficult to close and lock.
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How Trump Is Transforming Rural America
In Colorado, the President’s tone has started rubbing off on residents. By Peter Hessler.
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Colorado bear drives car after getting stuck inside
A bear that got stuck in a car in the US state of Colorado took a short joyride before crashing, police say. Durango resident Ron Cornelius awoke to find a Subaru SUV crashed at the bottom of the hill at the end of his driveway. "Usually, I don't get up at 5 o'clock unless there is a bear driving a car down the street," he joked to the Durango Herald newspaper.
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US man who said he was stabbed for looking like neo-Nazi actually stabbed himself
A Colorado man who claimed that someone had stabbed him because he looked like a “neo-Nazi” fabricated the story after he accidentally cut his hand with a knife, according to police. Joshua Witt, who has been arrested on false reporting charges, admitted to law enforcement in Sheridan, Colorado, that he lied to officers when he alleged that a black man had attacked him for having a haircut associated with white supremacists, police officials said Monday.
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Colorado GOP weighs whether to cancel its 2018 primary election, a move that would shut out unaffiliated voters
The decision about whether to opt-out of Proposition 108 and cancel the June 2018 primaries for Congress, the governor’s office and other positions is reminiscent of when the Colorado GOP vot…
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The water under Colorado’s Eastern Plains is running dry as farmers keep irrigating “great American desert”
Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead in the face of worsening environmental fallout: Overpumping of groundwater has drained the High Plains Aquifer to the point that streams are drying up at the rate of 6 miles a year.
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Legal marijuana is saving lives in Colorado, study finds
Researchers say the trend is worth watching in other states.
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A Cub Scout questioned a Colorado state senator at a meeting. Now he’s been kicked out of his den
A Cub Scout in Broomfield has been kicked out of his den, allegedly for asking pointed questions of a Colorado state senator at meeting organized by the Boy Scouts. By Kieran Nicholson. [Autoplay]
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Sorry, Comcast: Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado
Municipal broadband wins "David vs. Goliath battle" in Fort Collins, Colorado. By Jon Brodkin.
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Colorado girl suing U.S. attorney general to legalize medical marijuana nationwide
Alexis Bortell is hardly the first child whose family moved to Colorado for access to medical marijuana. But the 12-year-old is the first Colorado kid to sue U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions over the nation's official marijuana policy. "As the seizures got worse, we had to move to Colorado to get cannabis because it's illegal in Texas," said Bortell, who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a young child.
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Multiple officers shot, suspect at large, bomb squad, SWAT on scene in Douglas County
A so far undisclosed number of Sheriff’s deputies were shot this morning and a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is at the scene, a home near the 3400 block of County Line Road, according…
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After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband
The city council in Fort Collins, Colorado, last night voted to move ahead with a municipal fiber broadband network providing gigabit speeds, two months after the cable industry failed to stop the project. Last night's city council vote came after residents of Fort Collins approved a ballot question that authorized the city to build a broadband network. The ballot question, passed in November, didn't guarantee that the network would be built because city council approval was still required, but that hurdle is now cleared.
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Marijuana Tax: How Colorado is spending it's cannabis tax revenue
ive years ago, in November 2012, the American state of Colorado made headlines worldwide for legalizing recreational marijuana through Constitutional Amendment 64 (State Constitution). Colorado had already legalized medical marijuana 12 years before that in 2000 through Constitutional Amendment 20. Despite initial (and still-existing) fears and strong opposition, the legalization of marijuana has created another massive source of tax revenue for the state, securing over $100 million annually. So how does Colorado spend all this “drug money”?
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Mother of 4 stabbed to death by homeless man she tried to help, family says
A mother of four was stabbed to death in her downtown Denver loft by a man she was trying to help, according to a family member, reports CBS Denver. Jeanna Leslie, 49, had moved to Denver in November to be close to her two teenage children after their recent move from San Antonio. Police arrested the suspect, Terry Dunford, 40, around 11 p.m. Friday after a tip led them to his whereabouts. Arrest records show officers booked Dunford into a Denver detention center early Saturday morning on a charge of first degree murder.
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Attorneys: Thousands of Colorado DUI convictions could be in doubt amid forgery allegations
Colorado lawyers specializing in drunken-driving cases are questioning the validity of thousands of convictions after a technician who certified the state’s breath-test machines said his signature was forged on more than 100 records in 2013. In addition, a former laboratory director’s signature is still being used on some certificates more than a year after she left the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in July 2015. Those certificates are being used in DUI trials to prove machines were recording accurate blood-alcohol content.
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Case of rare, mouse-borne hantavirus confirmed in Denver for the first time since 1993
A Denver resident has been diagnosed with hantavirus, a rare but potentially fatal respiratory disease that has been diagnosed in the city only one other time since 1993. The disease is typically only found in rural and suburban areas but this individual contracted the virus in Denver, said Kerra Jones, spokeswoman for Denver’s Department of Public Health and Environment.
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Colorado Serenade
Millions of visitors come to Grand Canyon National Park, one of the seven natural wonders of the world and the most visited national park in the western United States. However, very few ever get to experience the Grand Canyon by way of the Colorado River.
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Colorado bump stock ban is rejected by Republicans in a party-line vote
Republican state senators on Monday afternoon rejected a bill from Democrats that would have banned bump stocks in Colorado. Senate Bill 51 failed on a 3-2, party-line vote in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. The measure would have created a ban on the devices, which can increase a semi-automatic rifle’s rate of fire to near what an automatic firearm can discharge. Bump stocks were used by a gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in October at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
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