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Colorado Indonesia Schools Win Schlumberger Scholarships

Schlumberger Ltd. announced Tuesday its contribution of five scholarships to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' (AAPG) Outstanding Student Chapter Awards. Two universities were selected as the 2013 chapter winners and four additional universities were awarded honorable mention student chapter scholarships. Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado was the top award ...
Denver International Airport named No. 3 airport in North America

Denver International Airport was recently named among the top 10 airports in the world, based on passenger numbers, and No. 3 among the best airports in North ...
Weld County marks 5th anniversary of tornado

GREELEY, Colo.-Weld County residents are marking the fifth anniversary of a tornado that devastated the town of Windsor. The May 22, 2008 tornado killed one man, destroyed 78 homes and damaged as many as 3,000 along its 39-mile path. The Windsor tornado had winds over 165 mph, making it an EF3 on a five-point scale. The Moore, Okla. tornado has been tentatively classified as an EF4. Windsor ...
Ascent Solar launches retail stores in Denver metro area

Ascent Solar Technologies announced Tuesday that it has opened a series of retail stores in the Denver metropolitan area to sell the company's new EnerPlex TM series of consumer products.Less than a year ago, Ascent announced that it had received an order for 50,000 of its EnerPlex solar chargers for the Apple iPhone.The product takes advantage of Ascent's ultra-light, thin and ...
Colorado stoned-driving bill attracts lawsuit

After the marijuana bill passed, Hickenlooper issued a statement lauding the driving standard as "a much-needed new tool to keep our highways safe from impaired ...

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Just My Luck [DVD]

Just My Luck is a riff on body-switch comedies, except this time it's not entire souls that swap corporeality--just one's luck. The movie skates along on the brittle-thin premise that some people are lucky and others are not, and if those people happen to kiss, they can swap fortu ... ...

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Officials clear way for I-70 traffic plan

FRISCO, Colo. (AP) -- Colorado Department of Transportation officials are now working on their next move to maximize the capacity of the Interstate-70 mountain ...
Ex-Girl Scouts leader sentenced for thefts

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- A former Girl Scouts leader who stole more than $4,000 from her troop's annual cookie fundraiser has been sentenced to six months in Mesa County's work release ...
Will you pay for Colo. education change

DENVER - Colorado's governor will sign a bill Tuesday overhauling the state's education system.However, the changes will only take effect if Colorado voters approve about $1 billion a year in higher taxes.The tax question will be petitioned onto ballots by advocacy groups, so it's too soon to say what exactly the proposed tax would be. Governor John Hickenlooper has said ...
787 Dreamliner to land in Colorado today

DENVER - The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is set to land at Denver International Airport after a delay caused by battery failures.The first flight Tuesday is a United Airlines flight from Houston.The first international flight between DIA and Tokyo is scheduled for June 10.Battery problems on planes owned by other airlines prompted the grounding. Federal authorities cleared the planes to fly again ...
Elbert Co. putting officers in schools

The move to have police in schools comes after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., where gunman Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary ...

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James Holmes to enter insanity plea for 'Batman' massacre

CENTENNIAL, Colorado - The man accused of the July 2012 massacre at a Batman film premier in Colarado will plead not guilty because of "insanity", his lawyers have said.

The lawyers said that the 25-year-old James Holmes will ask for the change at a May 13 hearing related to the case of the murder of 12 dead people in a shooting that also injured 70 last year.

A judge previously entered a not guilty plea after the defence said Holmes was not ready to plead. That was a standard not guilty plea.

If the judge accepts the insanity plea, Holmes would be sent to the state mental hospital, where doctors would determine whether he was insane at the time of the shootings on July 20, 2012.

Holmes can still be found guilty despite a medical finding of insanity as he faces more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder and could be executed if he is convicted.

Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to distinguish right from wrong, caused by a diseased or defective mind.

Prosecutors have indicated they will seek the death penalty for the former graduate student as they described the slayings at the showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" as "especially heinous, cruel or depraved". ...