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  • Attempted abduction near Loveland school

    LOVELAND, Colo. - Larimer County sheriff's deputies are investigating the attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl near a Loveland school on Tuesday afternoon.Deputies were called at 3:30 p.m. to Carrie Martin Elementary School at 4129 Joni Lane on the report of a male driver trying to pick up a young girl. A 13-year-old Loveland girl told investigators a man driving a maroon car followed ...

  • Sathwik Karnik wins National Geographic Bee

    To clinch the title, Sathwik correctly named Chimborazo as the mountain in Ecuador that represents the farthest point from the Earth's center. Thirteen-year-old Conrad Oberhaus of Lincolnshire, Ill., finished ...

  • Judge Hollister Abercrombie clothing unfriendly to disabled

    A federal judge in Denver is contemplating an injunction against Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC after ruling earlier that nearly 250 of their clothing stores that cater to a hip, young clientele are unfriendly to the disabled.The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several Colorado customers who said they had trouble getting into the retailers and that the sales countertops are ...

  • Phone lines repaired at Pueblo City Schools

    PUEBLO - A district wide phone outage for all of Pueblo City Schools has been restored. Spokesman Scott Jones says the service was restored as of 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. A local utility contractor reportedly severed the main line for the school district sometime just before ...

  • Girls killing prompts new computer application

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

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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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  • Federal judge rejects proposed plea bargain for drug dealer

    Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane has rejected a plea agreement that would have reduced a drug dealer's sentence by almost four years, calling it an attempt by both prosecutors and defense lawyers to "circumvent justice."Kane attracted attention from the national legal community when he rejected an earlier plea bargain in a child pornography case because it required the ...

  • Gasoline tanker crashes on Western Slope shuts down U.S. 50

    A semi-tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed on U.S. Highway 50 between Montrose and Gunnison, shutting down the road. The crash happened about 1 a.m. when the driver failed to negotiate a curve and the semi did a one-quarter roll onto its side, said Trooper Nate Reid, a Colorado State Patrol spokesman. The driver was not injured. The truck caught fire and the fire spread to a grassy hill. The ...

  • Fatal crash shuts down I-70 near Glenwood Springs

    A long stretch of I-70 in the mountains has been shut down by a fatal accident involving a vehicle and a semi-truck. The crash happened at 4:36 a.m. near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in the Glenwood Canyon section of the highway, said Trooper Nate Reid, a Colorado State Patrol spokesman. The crash happened in a construction zone, Reid said. The driver of a Mazda, a woman, died in the accident. An ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

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