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  • Authorities identify casualties in Colorado fire as blazes in Calif. Ariz. prompt evacuations

    People stand near one of the hundreds of homes considered a total loss in the wildfires near Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday, June, 17, 2013. Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, ...

  • Senators recall petition called invalid

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A recall petition against a Colorado lawmaker who supported gun rights was deemed sufficient Tuesday, setting up the first potential recall of a state lawmaker in Colorado history.But a lawyer for Democratic State Senate President John Morse immediately vowed to challenge the recall effort. Morse's attorney, Mark Grueskin, said the recall petition has a fatal law ...

  • Julyan Stone prepared to join Denvers line of defense

    Julyan Stone was a long way from Des Moines. Three months after reporting for an NBA Development League assignment with the Iowa Energy, Stone checked into a playoff game with the assignment of slowing the hottest shooter on Earth. Stone only spent 82 seconds defending Golden State guard Stephen Curry, but he helped the Nuggets trim a 20-point deficit to 13 when Curry went off the court in the ...

  • Video Armed robbery at rail station

    The suspect in the green T-shirt points what appears to be a black hangun (highlighted circle) as he robs a man at the Nine Mile light rail station on ...

  • Sudanese mans family wins right to bring lawsuit against 911 operator

    had earlier recommended that U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn dismiss civil rights claims in the lawsuit, which would have resulted in it being heard in a state court. Instead, the lawsuit is now headed for trial in federal court.The family of Jimma Reat, a Sudanese refugee, has sued the former 911 operator, Juan Jesus Rodriguez, and the city and county of Denver, over his death in April ...

Movie Review

Crossroads [DVD]

Crossroads [DVD]

Crossroads, Britney Spears' feature-film debut in which she plays a recent high-school graduate searching for her true self, is simply too bizarre in too many ways to be pawned off as a bad movie or a forgettable vanity project, as many have done. It's not a particularly good movie, but it is interesting in many ways. ...

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  • 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. ...

  • Civic Center EATS assembles Denvers food trucks for foodie nirvana

    events or outside the city's many microbreweries. However, throughout the summer, Denver "foodies" can find a majority of the food trucks gathered together ...

  • Rockies face tall task in bid for first win in Toronto

    The Rockies will continue their quest for the franchise's first win in Toronto in the series finale against the Blue Jays Wednesday night at Rogers Centre. But the opportunity to break an 0-8 all-time record arrives at a difficult moment, with the Blue Jays riding a seven-game winning streak, the longest active streak in the American League. Mark Buehrle, fresh off his best start of the ...

  • Dad of Longmont kidnapping suspect held in Colo.

    BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- The father of a man accused of fleeing to Canada with his son after attacking the boy's mother with pepper spray and a stun gun has been transferred to the Boulder County jail in ...

  • Accused Colorado theater gunmans lawyers seek psychiatric hospital video

    DENVER (Reuters) - Attorneys for the former graduate student charged with shooting 12 moviegoers to death in a Denver-area theater last summer have renewed their bid for access to a videotape of their client at the hospital where he was undergoing psychiatric ...

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