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  • Frontier threat suspect at Denver Health

    A fellow passenger took this photo of a man arrested for allegedly making a bomb threat on a Denver-bound Frontier Airlines flight on 6/14/2013. 7NEWS blurred the man's face because authorities have not confirmed he is the ...

  • A couple brief tornadoes sighted

    DENVER - Severe thunderstorms erupted across eastern Colorado Monday afternoon, spawning a couple of tornadoes and dropping some large hail.The tornadoes were reported near Stratton in Kit Carson County and near La Junta. There was some wind damage in the La Junta area, along with some local flooding from very heavy rains.The largest hail was golfball sized near Sugar City in Crowley County. ...

  • Connelly New Boss at Nuggets

    (Reuters) - The Denver Nuggets named Tim Connelly as their new general manager on Monday after Masai Ujiri joined the Toronto Raptors last month. The first task for 36-year-old Connelly, who spent the last three years as the assistant general manager in New Orleans, will be finding a new head coach to replace George Karl, who was sacked at the end of the season. "We have a lot to do," ...

  • Tornado spotted near La Junta

    La Junta Fire Chief Aaron Eveatt tweeted this photo of a tornado passing near La Junta Industrial Park on 6/17/2013. (Photo by La Junta Fire Chief Aaron ...

  • Nuggets name Hornets exec Connelly as new GM

    New Nuggets GM Tim Connelly (right) puts a Russian player through a workout. (Catherine Steenkeste/Getty Images) The Nuggets announced Monday the hiring of Pelicans assistant GM Tim Connelly as their new executive vice president of basketball operations. "We are extremely excited to have Tim join the Denver Nuggets organization," Nuggets CEO Josh ...

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Sling Blade [Blu-Ray]

Sling Blade [Blu-Ray]

As written and performed by Billy Bob Thornton, Karl Childers, the central character of Sling Blade, is one of the most fascinating, moving, and complex characters to come across a movie screen. A drawling, slow-moving and slow-thinking, but deeply felt man from Arkansas, Karl bear ... ...

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  • De La Rosa on short end of pitchers duel in loss

    COL@TOR: De La Rosa tosses seven scoreless frames TORONTO -- Rockies left-handed pitcher Jorge De La Rosa's form returned in a big way Monday night, but Matt Belisle's consistency left him at a bad time. De La Rosa held the streaking Blue Jays to one hit in seven spectacular innings, but Belisle couldn't hold the tie, as the Rockies lost, 2-0, at Rogers Centre in front of ...

  • Denver committee offers compromise in naming of west library

    The new library on Denver's west side should be named after former library commissioner Lena Archuleta and the late Chicano activist Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, a library committee on Monday recommended before a Thursday vote by the library commissioners."I propose that the library be named the Archuleta-Gonzales library," said Commissioner Gloria Rubio-Cortez.The ...

  • Rockies Waste De La Rosa’s Great Start In Loss To Toronto

    Jorge De La Rosa of the Colorado Rockies delivers a pitch during inter-league MLB game action against the Toronto Blue Jays June 17, 2013 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Brad White/Getty ...

  • Denver Nuggets begin predraft workouts with 12 prospects

    By Aaron J. Lopez, Nuggets.com, 6-1-13 Colorado State center Colton Iverson and Missouri point guard Phil Pressey are among 12 players scheduled to take part in a predraft workout for the Nuggets at Pepsi Center on Monday. Iverson, 7-0, 255, was named the 2012-13 Mountain West Newcomer of the Year and landed a spot on the All-MWC First Team after averaging 14.2 points and 9.8 rebounds for the ...

  • Rockies extoll virtues of learning quirks of each park

    TORONTO -- Prior to Monday's game against the Blue Jays, Rockies advance scout Chris Warren and catching instructor Jerry Weinstein walked to the right-field corner of Rogers Centre, throwing baseballs against the fence and observing. Every few feet, they'd repeat. They noted how the ball deadened when it hit the unmarked padded parts of the wall, and how it rebounded a little better ...

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