Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:15 PM EST
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a federal law making it illegal to lie about being a war hero is constitutional and making false statements is not always protected free speech.
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Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:14 PM EST
Can Tim Tebow's blessing inspire Colorado lawmakers? One state representative thinks so.
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Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:04 PM EDT
An off-year tax vote in Colorado this week likely sent a powerful message to policymakers nationwide who are wondering if voters will consider paying more for services they say they want.
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Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:00 PM EDT
Post-Columbine school disciplinary policies that Colorado lawmakers say lead to mandatory expulsions for things like inadvertently having a butter knife in a backpack are facing an overhaul, under a proposal given preliminary approval Tuesday.
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Mon Oct 3, 2011 3:33 PM EDT
Former employees at a western Colorado hotel said they were fired and replaced with Latino workers because the business owners thought white and non-Hispanic workers were lazy, according to a federal lawsuit announced Monday.
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Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:27 PM EDT
Colorado lawmakers and police said Monday that strict disciplinary policies at schools created after the Columbine High School shootings should be scaled back or scrapped and that administrators should have more control over student punishment.
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:58 AM EDT
Young students in Colorado schools can face ticketing or charges for scrawling doodles on a desk, accidentally hitting a teacher with a beanbag chair, or swiping a stick of gum from a teacher's purse.
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Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:09 PM EDT
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a potential Republican presidential candidate, said Friday he supports state rights so much that he's fine with New York's approval of gay marriage but still called himself an "unapologetic social conservative."
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Tue Jun 7, 2011 11:03 PM EDT
Denver Councilman Michael Hancock has won a runoff election and will become the city's new mayor.
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Thu Jun 2, 2011 10:05 PM EDT
New Mexico authorities are making a stink after an odor wafting from a New Mexico property lead them to a foul discovery — dozens of dead animals, including the remains of a rhino named Sally.
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Wed Jun 1, 2011 7:25 PM EDT
A man accused of killing a New Mexico nun has been found competent to stand trial.
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Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
Dominic McGee was born to a mother addicted to drugs and taken away from her to live in a series of five foster homes where authorities assumed he'd be safe. Instead, he says he was subjected to physical and sexual abuse and even threatened with castration as a form of discipline.
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Sat Apr 9, 2011 3:35 PM EDT
A $100 million budget deficit, a police department under scrutiny, an over-budget mass transportation project and the chance to work in the long shadow of one of the city's most popular politicians.
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Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:13 PM EDT
Jake Bryant played hockey for seven years and was the goalie in an advanced youth hockey with the Colorado Rampage. He suffered five concussions in less than two years, which forced him to retire from the sport at age 16.
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Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:34 PM EST
The surge of medical marijuana use in Colorado has started another debate in the state Legislature: What constitutes driving while high?
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Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:18 AM EST
As a child, Guillermo "Bill" Vidal shook Fidel Castro's hand shortly after he seized power in Cuba in 1959. It was, Vidal jokingly says, his first "Forrest Gump" moment, referring to the movie character who crosses paths with iconic figures throughout his life.
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Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:15 AM EST
Belinda Ellis' farewell went as she wanted. One by one, her family placed juniper boughs and logs about her body, covered in red cloth atop a rectangular steel grate inside a brick-lined hearth. With a torch, her husband lit the fire that consumed her, sending billows of smoke into the blue-gray sky of dawn.
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Tue Dec 7, 2010 6:13 PM EST
U.S. diplomats accuse Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government of taking bribes from drug traffickers and receiving "suitcases full of cash" from Venezuelan officials, according to confidential documents released this week by WikiLeaks.
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Wed Dec 1, 2010 6:06 PM EST
Residents of Ciudad Mier, the colonial town near the U.S. border that was nearly emptied by warring drug cartels a month ago, are slowly returning and tentatively putting their faith in new military patrols, a town official said Wednesday.
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Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:52 PM EST
Mexico has done little over the past decade to improve the squalid living conditions of mentally disabled adults and children who are in institutions, an international advocacy group charged Tuesday.
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Thu Oct 7, 2010 7:22 PM EDT
Businessmen gather at an empty Denver Broncos stadium, with an ominous warning: The more than 70,000 vacant seats around them represent the number of state jobs that would be lost if three tax-slashing and debt-cutting measures are approved in next month's election.
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Wed Sep 8, 2010 5:59 PM EDT
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is shrugging off the suggestion that a national GOP group won't help finance his campaign anymore and said Wednesday he will continue to fight for votes.
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 3:19 AM EDT
The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry.
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Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:12 PM EDT
A Colorado hospital said Friday that it has temporarily suspended live donor liver transplants while it investigates the death of a South Dakota man who donated part of his liver to his brother.
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Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:07 PM EDT
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Friday that Senate Republicans could be prolonging the recession by opposing a spending bill that would have extended unemployment benefits.
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