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  • Former Boulder DUI cop sentenced for DUI

    BOULDER, Colo. - A former Boulder Police Department DUI-enforcement officer will serve home detention and pay a fine for driving with a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit.Elizabeth Ward, 46, was arrested on Dec. 4 in Thornton after an off-duty officer from Arvada saw her weaving through traffic and fluctuating speeds on Interstate 25. Eventually, Ward stopped the car on ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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Somewhere

Somewhere

Somewhere, Sofia Coppolas fourth feature, is a continuation of her cinematic exploration of personal isolation, and while it has much about it that is admirable, it will undoubtedly be experienced most directly as an inferior variation on Lost in Translation (2003), her Oscar-w ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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