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  • People with disabilities in Durango protest access

    DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- People in wheelchairs protested a lack of access to buildings in Durango. And to prove their point, they rolled up and down stairs, banged into doors and waited for emergency responders to pull them out of tight ...

  • Fitch Rates Colorado Hsg Fin Auth VRBs Ser 2004A A+F1

    Money Market Funds Explore Callable Commercial Paper in Value Search Money market funds (MMFs) are slowly increasing exposure to a relatively new short-term instrument - callable commercial paper (CP), according to Fitch Ratings. MMFs are exploring callable CP as a way to add additional yield and diversification to portfolios, as well as in response to banks' reduced appetite for providing ...

  • Colorado wildfire leaves landscape of destruction

    (Image: Reuters/Rick Wilking) These burned-out cars bear witness to the deadly power of a wildfire burning out of control in the Black Forest area of Colorado, one of the ...

  • Family Sues Over Colorado Woman’s Death In Reality TV Project

    The survivors of a woman killed during the production of a reality TV show pilot have filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Discovery Communications Inc. and Anthropic Productions Corp. Terry Flanell’s husband and daughter filed the lawsuit last week in federal court in Denver. It says the companies were producing a pilot focusing on the family’s Colorado Springs ...

  • Colorado Wildfire Burns More Than 500 Homes New Blazes in West

    The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, as other threatening blazes grew in Alaska and elsewhere in the West. The Black Forest Fire, which has killed at least two people and has burned outside Colorado Springs for the past week, was 85 percent contained by ...

Movie Review

Kingpin

It has always been said that funny is a matter of taste. "Kingpin" is a matter of being funny by being tasteless. "Kingpin" is a gross, screwball comedy sprinkled with social and cultural satire, then loaded with bathroom humor and a whole heaping of cinema in-jokes and movie spoofs, plus one good sheep joke. If anything, "Kingpin" features a great competition between two characters for the worst ... ...

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  • Columbine survivor electrocuted at work

    CARLSBAD, New Mexico - A man who survived the Columbine High School massacre as a teenager was electrocuted.Matthew Depew, 30, now of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was working on some power lines Saturday when he was shocked. He did not survive."Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the friends, family and co-workers affected by this tragic accident," Xcel Energy said in a statement sent to ...

  • Fire stopped at one evacuees driveway

    Scott said he was standing about 50 feet from the flames when his neighbor's home caught fire. "The fire was huge, unbelievably powerful," Scott ...

  • Larimer DA rules stabbing was self-defense

    FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- The Larimer County District Attorney's office has decided not to file charges in the April stabbing death of Kenneth ...

  • Black Forest fire crews focus on mop up cost to fight fire hits $8.5 million

    James Gonzales of Wildfire Support Team from Santa Fe, New Mexico, takes his team to another home where the crew scours the properties for any kind of hotspots inside of the Black Fire fire zone on June 17, 2013. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver ...

  • NBA Fan Code of Conduct

    The National Basketball Association, the Denver Nuggets and Pepsi Center are committed to creating a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable sports & entertainment experience. NBA fans have a right to expect an environment where: Players will respect and appreciate each and every fan. Guests will be treated in a consistent, professional and courteous manner by all arena and team ...

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