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  • 14 Fort Carson soldiers return from Afghanistan

    The soldiers of the 52nd Engineer Battalion's 40th Engineer Detachment told The Gazette they traveled the country, expanding forward operating bases, improving living conditions and creating helicopter landing zones ...

  • Wilson Chandler eyes opportunity for postseason redemption

    Wilson Chandler has been waiting for his shot at redemption for two years. The journey included a brief, but eye-opening, experience in China and a strenuous recovery from hip surgery. At long last, the opportunity is finally here. "It's going to be fun," the even-keeled Nuggets forward said after Denver wrapped up the regular season Wednesday night. "It's going to be ...

  • Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee cancels Denver Comic Con appearance Kirk beams down

    Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee cancelled his appearance at the 2013 Denver Comic Con, news that will leave most fans feeling like they were punched in the gut by one of Doctor Octopus' tentacles.But all is not lost, true believers.When one door closes, another opens. And in this case, James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, has walked in. Hollywood icon William Shatner, ...

  • Hearing set for Saudi man convicted of slavery

    DENVER (AP) -- A Saudi national serving eight years to life in prison in Colorado after being convicted in 2006 of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years has been ordered to attend a parole hearing on ...

  • Wildfire bills get Colorado governors signature

    CORTEZ, Colo.-Wildfire prevention measures passed after Colorado's tragic wildfire season last year have been signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper. The governor signed the bills at Mesa Verde National Park in Cortez. One of the bills puts new curbs on prescribed burns on state forest land. The safeguards include a new requirement that people tend the fire as long as it's burning, ...

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From Hell

Some 114 years after he murdered at least five women in London's East End, we still do not know for sure who Jack the Ripper was. He remains a shadowy figure of both history and myth, and although he was not the first serial killer, he remains the "prototype" for thinking about serial killing. As Mark Seltzer noted in his book Serial Killers, "That nothing reliable is known about the ident ... ...

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  • DOC buys travel for official on leave

    DENVER - After a series of CALL7 investigations exposing catastrophic failures in the Department of Corrections parole division, the head of parole was placed on administrative leave Wednesday while an internal audit is conducted.Yet even as Tim Hand was being shown the door, DOC was booking him a plane ticket to an out-of-state national parole commission meeting.CALL7 Investigator Theresa ...

  • Bloomberg adds 2 Hamptons properties info shows

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg has added to his roster of high-end real estate, buying a house and a vacant parcel last year next to a 35-acre estate he already owns in tony Southampton, information released Thursday ...

  • Doctor pleads guilty to distributing painkillers

    Kevin Clemmer pleaded guilty Thursday to distributing Oxycodone for nonmedical purposes and money laundering. Sentencing is set for Sept. 19. The Denver Post reports ...

  • Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate

    DENVER (AP) -- In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after ...

  • Colorado highway flush with coins after door opens on armored truck

    U.S. coins. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) A Brink's armored truck lost some of its valuable cargo Thursday after a rear door opened, allowing coins to be spread across Colorado Highway 66 just south of Mead.Weld County Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to a report of the armored truck parked in a lane of traffic on the highway near Weld County Road 7. Upon arrival they found ...

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