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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 ...

  • Judge in Denver Hollister clothing unfriendly to disabled

    DENVER-A federal judge in Denver is considering an injunction after ruling that nearly 250 Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC clothing stores are unfriendly to the disabled. Judge Wiley Daniel agreed in March with the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition that the retailers that cater to a hip, young clientele limited access for customers in wheelchairs. Daniel says the only remedy ...

  • 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, ...

  • War Battle For Legacy this Friday night in Denver

    In the light welterweight main event, Raul El Chino' Carrillo (11-1, 6 KO's) takes on Corey 'Wolf Dawg' Alarcon (17-18-1, 4 KO's) in what should be an exciting battle between two tough Colorado competitors. With just 12 professional bouts under his belt 'The Pride of Longmont, Colorado' Raul Carrillo has established himself as one tough hombre and with recent ...

  • Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest NRA seeks to recall Colorado lawmaker who passed gun safety laws

    Sign up here . Leading Off: o CO Recall: There are some new recall efforts underway that you may not yet know about, but you'll want to. Last fall, Democrats succeeded in winning the Colorado state House back from Republicans, giving them full control of the legislature and the governorship. That's allowed Democrats to pass a number of progressive pieces of legislation, including ...

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The Lords of Discipline [DVD]

The Lords of Discipline [DVD]

The Lords of Discipline was one of the last in a string of youth-oriented military movies that appeared in the early 1980s, including Taps (1981) and An Officer and a Gentleman (1983). However, it has neither the idealism of the former (even with it ... ...

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  • Aurora teen in Geography Bee finals

    AURORA, Colo. - A seventh-grader from Aurora is representing Colorado in the final round of the National Geographic Bee.Pranit Nanda is one of 10 students from across the country competing in Wednesday's finals in Washington, D.C. The 13-year-old attends Aurora Quest K-8 School and is competing for prizes including a $25,000 college scholarship and a trip to the Galapagos Islands.Nanda ...

  • Man with rifle shot by Longmont police officer

    LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- Longmont police say a 28-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot three times by a police officer after the man opened fire with a ...

  • Fate of Colo. death row inmate in governors hands

    The 38-year-old Dunlap is on death row for the 1993 ambush slayings of four people in a Denver-area pizza restaurant. He was convicted and sentenced to die in 1996, and the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his last guaranteed appeal this ...

  • Girls murder prompts new computer application

    LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- The murder of a 10-year-old girl is prompting development of a new computer application to track children and issue a warning when they are off ...

  • Cop shoots armed man in gun battle

    LONGMONT, Colo. - A Longmont Police officer pulling over a man driving without his headlights Wednesday morning suddenly ended up in a shootout.Longmont Police said the officer pulled the driver over at the Harvest Junction North Shopping Center on Ken Pratt Boulevard around 2:15 a.m."Immediately after stopping, the suspect exited his vehicle, advanced on the officer and began firing ...

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