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  • Pachecos slam helps Rockies solve Giants

    Pacheco crushes a go-ahead grand slam to left DENVER -- A Rockies team that almost never delivers the big hit against the Giants finally came up with one on Friday night. Jordan Pacheco, who hadn't homered this season, drove a first-pitch slider from Giants starter Madison Bumgarner into the left-field seats with two out in the fifth inning for his first-career grand slam. ...

  • Colorado Springs police Teen found naked in squalid home

    COLORADO SPRINGS -- A former Colorado Springs city councilman and his wife have been cited for child neglect after police found their 13-year-old son naked and living in a home littered with human waste. Charles Wingate and his wife, Sharon Starkey, were reported to police by a neighbor. According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, the boy was living with live and dead rodents. "The boy ...

  • 54 of 64 Colorado county sheriffs sue over gun restrictions

    DENVER -- Colorado sheriffs upset with new state gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings are trying to invalidate the regulations with a federal lawsuit filed Friday that argues the measures violate the Second Amendment. At issue are two laws passed this spring that are set to take effect July 1, limiting the size of the of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds ...

  • Tight series between Nuggets and Warriors is no surprise

    Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO - In retrospect, two nights in November simply foreshadowed the future. Playing one another for the first time during the regular season, the Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors staged an entertaining duel that ended ...

  • Elite Eight Nuggets set for sprint to the finish line

    Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Eight games, 15 days, big implications. Locked in a battle with the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies for the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference, the Denver Nuggets are poised for a frenetic finish over the next two weeks. Rather than worry about how things will shake out, the Nuggets are keeping the strategy simple. "We just have to go out ...

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Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, long before DVDs and Blu-Rays and certainly before Netflix and DVR and downloadable movie files, there were these things called videocassettes. They were rectangular and plastic and slightly bulky, and they made a rattling sound when you sh ... ...

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  • MLB Colorado 10 San Francisco 9

    Jordan Pacheco hit a grand slam homer and drove in five runs Friday, giving Colorado enough of a cushion to pull out a 10-9 win over San Francisco. Pacheco's home run came during a five-run fifth and he also drove in a run with a ground out in the second. Colorado took a 10-4 led through six innings and fought off a Giants' rally that ran out of steam ...

  • Escaped prisoner apprehended in Denver

    DENVER - A convict who walked away from a minimum security facility a month age has been apprehended in Denver.The Colorado Department of Corrections says 30-year-old Kenneth Gomez was arrested without incident Friday at 51st and Sheridan in Denver by the Fugitive Location and Apprehension Group (FLAG) Unit. He was alone and was detained without incident. Gomez was working as a mechanic at the ...

  • Toddlers wheelchair stolen from SUV

    DENVER - For the past 2 1/2 weeks, life just hasn't been the same for little Heidi Palacios."She's scared to walk," her mother, Kiara Palacios told 7NEWS.On May 2nd, bad news showed up outside their home in northwest Denver, stealing the family's Chevy Trailblazer and another set of wheels worth a lot more."My daughter's chair was in there," Palacios ...

  • Colorado Springs ministry claims they were targeted by the IRS

    A local Christian ministry is claiming they were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service which is under fire after allegations that applications for tax exempt status from conservative organizations were purposefully delayed starting in 2010. Family Talk Action is headquarted in Colorado Springs, it was founded by Dr. James Dobson but has no connection to Focus on the Family. The ministry ...

  • Future Habitat Metro Denver Homeowners Meet Denver Broncos

    On Wednesday the 15th of May, 2013, a few of the Denver Broncos Football Players, Cheerleaders and staff made a trip to the Globeville Neighborhood to visit with some future owners of Habitat Metro Denver ...

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