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State education funding verdict due Tues

DENVER - The Colorado Supreme Court will issue a decision May 28 on whether the state's public schools are adequately funded.The landmark Lobato v State of Colorado Board of Education case was argued before the court last March and challenged the adequacy of public education funding in Colorado.In 2005, ...
Drug charges for convenience store owner

DENVER - A convenience store owner was arrested Friday on drug charges after an investigation that police say lasted several months and involved several undercover operations.Detectives arrested Bisrat Haile, 45, the owner of Jerry’s Market at 601 N. Knox Ct. Police say that arrest was made without incident around 8:30 a.m.In a search that followed the arrest, detectives say they found ...
Suspects in Denver bar slayings plead not guilty

DENVER -; Three men accused of fatally stabbing five people at a Denver bar that authorities say was set on fire to cover up the killings have pleaded not ...
Man pleads guilty in Sterling cellmates death

STERLING, Colo. (AP) -- An inmate accused of killing his cellmate at the Sterling Correctional Facility has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the heat of ...
Nuggets seek crowd boost as series returns to Pepsi Center

Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO - For two nights in Oakland, the Golden State Warriors were treated like rock gods by a crowd that started screaming an hour before tipoff and rarely sat down once the game started. Riding the euphoria, the Warriors passed, dunked and bombed away with abandon in seizing a 3-1 lead against the Denver Nuggets in their best-of-7 first-round series. ...

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Persepolis [Blu-Ray]

One of the best things I can say about Persepolis--which, in my opinion, is one of the best things I can say about any film--is that I cannot imagine it being in any style other than the one in which it is told. The film borrows its simple, yet exceedingly elegant visual look from i ... ...

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Pueblo man organizes donation drive for Oklahoma

A local business owner in Pueblo is organizing a donation drive for the community of Moore, Oklahoma. Brian Mater owns a transport company and is using one of his semi truck trailers to take to these goods to Moore and Shawnee, OK. Drop off locations are in Pueblo at All Star Exteriors 4 Avis Ave., Spradley Chevrolet at 2146 Highway 50 West, and Maurices at 5797 N Elizabeth St. Among the ...
Todays MLB starting lineups May 24

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. ...
Firefighters battle a wildfire in La Veta Colorado

Firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire west of La Veta, Colorado. Several fire departments are on the scene working to contain the wildfire located near 9200 W. U.S. Hwy. 160. The fire started around 2:30 p.m. Friday. According to the La Veta Fire Chief David Tray, the winds are presenting a problem in trying to fight the 20 to 50 acre fire. Only one person was evacuated. No reported ...
Low river flows affecting reservoir releases

Under a voluntary program, when mountain snowpack is above average, the operators of Dillon, Green Mountain, Williams Fork, Wolford and Ruedi reservoirs release water to enhance spring peak Colorado River flows for the Colorado pikeminnow and the razorback sucker. The Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that this year, river flows won't be high enough to trigger the ...
RTD touts 2012 bus safety record

Regional Transportation District officials says new attention to detail and refresher courses for drivers led to a huge drop in bus accidents in 2012.RTD's annual Bus Accident Report categorizes bus accidents by division, type of collision, the direction the bus was moving, if it was bus stop incident, hours on duty and time of day.In nearly every category, there was a decrease in ...

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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.

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The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.

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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". ...