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Local church taking donations to Okla.
THORNTON, Colo. - A church in Thornton is sending a relief team to Oklahoma next week and they are willing to take certain donations with them.ThornCreek Church says it plans to send volunteers with water, Gatorade, crisis care kits and other items to Moore, Oklahoma, the town devastated by a EF5 tornado on Monday afternoon.ThornCreek Church said it is coordinating its relief and clean-up effort ...
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Investigators searched Holmes bank records iPod
Polygraph expert Warren Holmes helped free wrongly convicted men from death row, and was working on a report about the man long believed to have killed a candy ...
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Plans for office building near Denver Union Station unveiled
The rendering for East West Partners' newest office building at the Denver Union Station redevelopment. East West Partners Wednesday unveiled plans for its newest building in the Denver Union Station redevelopment project, its third overall in the area. The 10-story office structure, dubbed The Triangle Building, will be at 1550 Wewatta St. Construction is expected to begin in October, ...
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Denver and Aurora cops FBI seek bank robbers dubbed Trick or Treat bandits
Surveillance cameras captured this image of a robber at Wells Fargo Bank, 1001 S. Monaco St. in Denver on March 14 at 4:00 p.m. (Provided by FBI) Local police and the FBI are after a group of busy bank robbers known as "The Trick or Treat Bandits." Investigators believe the group is responsible for at least nine recent bank robberies in Denver and Aurora, according to a Rocky Mountain ...
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Colorado settles with Penguin to resolve e-book price-fixing dispute
Colorado has reached an agreement with Penguin Group (USA) to settle the state's allegations that Penguin colluded with other major publishers and Apple Inc. to manipulate prices in the e-book market.The agreement with Penguin must be approved by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.The Colorado attorney general's office said that when finalized, the agreement ...
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Denvers Postmodern named to Inner City 100 of fast-growing businesses or 5th year
A screen shot of the Postmodern Co. website. Denver's Postmodern Co. has been named to the 2013 "Inner City 100" list of fast-growing businesses in economically distressed urban areas nationwide. Its the media production firm's fifth straight year on the list. The list, in its 15th year, is produced by the Boston-based nonprofit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and ...
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Widow Leon was loved and he counted
DENVER - From anger to sadness, the family of Nathan Leon experiences a roller coaster of emotions each day. The father of three was gunned down on March 17, while working his part-time job. Many know Leon as a pizza delivery driver, but his wife says there was much more to the man than the job he did one day a week to earn extra money for his family."He had a name. He was a good person. He ...
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Dangerous Denver streets for cyclists
DENVER - Some of the most accident-prone areas in Denver for bicycles are designated as bike routes, CALL7 computer-assisted investigation found.The bike route on 12th Avenue in the Capitol Hill and downtown areas was among the highest for accidents.Cyclists say a few simple improvements could make the route safer and the city's Department of Public Works is reviewing conditions on 12th in ...
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You could be living in a former meth lab and not even know it
You could be living in a former meth lab right now and not even know it. A News 5 investigation recently uncovered a Colorado Springs family who unknowingly rented out a former meth lab that was never cleaned up. News 5's Jacqui Heinrich stayed on top of that story and discovered hundreds of families could be in the same situation. Three hundred and nine: that's how many meth labs ...
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12-year-old Mass. boy wins National Geographic Bee
David Lyle, CEO of the National Geographic Channel, has seen enough of the letters to know how they go. The writer is typically a longtime reader of the magazine, who perhaps recalls the times he leafed through its glossy pages while perched on grandpa’s ...
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Larimer Associates announces restaurant and hotel plans for Denver Union Station
Denver's culinary scene has continued to skyrocket over the last few years. From James Beard winners to cozy culinary hideaways within the Mile High City, the new Denver Union Station will be home to three new spaces that have foodies in a frenzy ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Driver in fatal Halloween crash in Arvada enters guilty pleas
crash on Halloween night has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. Shaini Elizabeth Davenport, 21, entered guilty pleas this week to vehicular homicide plus four additional counts for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to a Jefferson County District Attorney's Office media release. Michelle Adams, 29, died in the crash, which injured four others. On Halloween, Davenport ...
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Maroon Bells visitors will see different fee structure
ASPEN - The U.S. Forest Service is making a simple, seemingly insignificant change to its fee-collection system at the Maroon Bells this summer, but the move is tied to a national fight that will end up in the lap of Congress next year.The Aspen-Sopris Ranger District announced Tuesday that it won't charge a fee for vehicles that drive to an inconspicuous spot called the Stein Meadow ...
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Technical problems plague launch of Colorado health insurance website
State insurance officials wanted to offer the public an easy way to check new health policy prices in preparation for "Obamacare," but their site wasn't working after launch early Wednesday.The glitch was an ominous sign for those critical of health-care reform as too complex and bound to lose consumers in glitch-prone computer systems. The exchange will start signing up the ...
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Colorado craft breweries land in close-in Denver suburbs
The space on 56th Avenue in Arvada was vacant when Odyssey Beerwerks leased it. (Eric Gorski, The Denver Post) Colorado's craft beer renaissance knows no geographic boundaries. Breweries have taken root in small towns and urban neighborhoods, in industrial parks and on farms. With fewer and fewer blanks to fill on the state's beer map, one underrepresented area is now getting its due: ...
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Attempted abduction near Loveland school
LOVELAND, Colo. - Larimer County sheriff's deputies are investigating the attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl near a Loveland school on Tuesday afternoon.Deputies were called at 3:30 p.m. to Carrie Martin Elementary School at 4129 Joni Lane on the report of a male driver trying to pick up a young girl. A 13-year-old Loveland girl told investigators a man driving a maroon car followed ...
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Judge Hollister Abercrombie clothing unfriendly to disabled
A federal judge in Denver is contemplating an injunction against Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC after ruling earlier that nearly 250 of their clothing stores that cater to a hip, young clientele are unfriendly to the disabled.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several Colorado customers who said they had trouble getting into the retailers and that the sales countertops are ...
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Phone lines repaired at Pueblo City Schools
PUEBLO - A district wide phone outage for all of Pueblo City Schools has been restored. Spokesman Scott Jones says the service was restored as of 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. A local utility contractor reportedly severed the main line for the school district sometime just before ...
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Girls killing prompts new computer application
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- The killing of a 10-year-old Westminster girl prompted development of a new computer application to track children and issue a warning when they are off ...
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Federal judge rejects proposed plea bargain for drug dealer
Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane has rejected a plea agreement that would have reduced a drug dealer's sentence by almost four years, calling it an attempt by both prosecutors and defense lawyers to "circumvent justice."Kane attracted attention from the national legal community when he rejected an earlier plea bargain in a child pornography case because it required the ...
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Gasoline tanker crashes on Western Slope shuts down U.S. 50
A semi-tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed on U.S. Highway 50 between Montrose and Gunnison, shutting down the road. The crash happened about 1 a.m. when the driver failed to negotiate a curve and the semi did a one-quarter roll onto its side, said Trooper Nate Reid, a Colorado State Patrol spokesman. The driver was not injured. The truck caught fire and the fire spread to a grassy hill. The ...
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Fatal crash shuts down I-70 near Glenwood Springs
A long stretch of I-70 in the mountains has been shut down by a fatal accident involving a vehicle and a semi-truck. The crash happened at 4:36 a.m. near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in the Glenwood Canyon section of the highway, said Trooper Nate Reid, a Colorado State Patrol spokesman. The crash happened in a construction zone, Reid said. The driver of a Mazda, a woman, died in the accident. An ...
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Boulder County wont extend drilling moratorium
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- Some northern Colorado communities are looking to strictly regulate oil and gas drilling rather than stopping it all ...
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Windsor Colorado remembers deadly tornado on five year anniversary
Colorado during the spring with sunny skies and mild temperatures. Soon though Mother Nature began cooking a dangerous concoction of conditions that would spawn a deadly, ...
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