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  • 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 ...

  • Larimer Associates announces restaurant and hotel plans for Denver Union Station

    Denver's culinary scene has continued to skyrocket over the last few years. From James Beard winners to cozy culinary hideaways within the Mile High City, the new Denver Union Station will be home to three new spaces that have foodies in a frenzy ...

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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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  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 22

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

  • Driver in fatal Halloween crash in Arvada enters guilty pleas

    crash on Halloween night has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. Shaini Elizabeth Davenport, 21, entered guilty pleas this week to vehicular homicide plus four additional counts for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to a Jefferson County District Attorney's Office media release. Michelle Adams, 29, died in the crash, which injured four others. On Halloween, Davenport ...

  • Maroon Bells visitors will see different fee structure

    ASPEN - The U.S. Forest Service is making a simple, seemingly insignificant change to its fee-collection system at the Maroon Bells this summer, but the move is tied to a national fight that will end up in the lap of Congress next year.The Aspen-Sopris Ranger District announced Tuesday that it won't charge a fee for vehicles that drive to an inconspicuous spot called the Stein Meadow ...

  • Technical problems plague launch of Colorado health insurance website

    State insurance officials wanted to offer the public an easy way to check new health policy prices in preparation for "Obamacare," but their site wasn't working after launch early Wednesday.The glitch was an ominous sign for those critical of health-care reform as too complex and bound to lose consumers in glitch-prone computer systems. The exchange will start signing up the ...

  • Colorado craft breweries land in close-in Denver suburbs

    The space on 56th Avenue in Arvada was vacant when Odyssey Beerwerks leased it. (Eric Gorski, The Denver Post) Colorado's craft beer renaissance knows no geographic boundaries. Breweries have taken root in small towns and urban neighborhoods, in industrial parks and on farms. With fewer and fewer blanks to fill on the state's beer map, one underrepresented area is now getting its due: ...

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