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  • District wide phone outage reported for Pueblo City Schools

    PUEBLO - Pueblo City Schools reports a telephone outage due to a line being severed by a local utility contractor. Communications Director Scott Jones says the outage is effecting incoming and outgoing calls from all district buildings. Jones says parents and teachers are encouraged to comminicate via email until the phone service is restored. The school district ...

  • Denver Startup Street Faire

    Denver Startup Street Faire on September 20 & 21 to be held in conjunction with Denver Startup Week. The event will feature dozens of exhibits of powerful products, cool gadgets, and innovative offerings from Denver technology, science, and manufacturing startups. It will be held at the Wellington Webb Building at 201 West Colfax Avenue in Denver, ...

  • Utah Gov. Herbert rails against US Land management

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says his state does a better job than federal managers and has a bigger stake than the bureaucrats in protecting the natural resources and rugged beauty that drives Utah's outdoor recreation and tourism ...

  • Denver Nuggets honor team doctor for 25 years of service

    Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images It took only a few seconds for 25 years of memories to come flooding back for Dr. Steve Traina. From Andre Miller's shoulder to Chris Andersen's knees to Todd Lichti's shattered foot, Traina remembered the numerous players he has helped recover from injury and resume their NBA career during his tenure as team doctor for the Denver Nuggets. ...

  • Atty Ebel forced woman to give him gun

    An attorney for a woman accused of providing the weapon used to kill Colorado's prisons chief says Evan Ebel forced her to turn over the gun.Stevie Marie Anne Vigil pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of buying a handgun and giving it to Ebel, the sole suspect in the shooting death of state corrections chief Tom Clements in March.Ebel died days later in a shootout with officers in ...

Movie Review

I, The Jury

I, The Jury

In the 1982 updating of Mickey Spillane's 1947 novel "I, The Jury," hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer is a Vietnam vet who drives a shiny bronze Trans Am, dresses like Don Johnson in "Miami Vice" with less pastels, and has sworn off alcohol. However, he still smokes his Lucky Strikes, detests a ... ...

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  • Families in need get needed childcare

    DENVER - For those seeking a new beginning in life, support is key to their success. 7Everyday Hero Emma Miller is using her retirement years to nurture families looking to improve their lives. She volunteers in the pre-school at Denver's Warren Village."Warren Village is a unique program for homeless single parents and their children. It provides an opportunity for parents to get back ...

  • Former RI man to run for Colo. governor

    DENVER - A onetime Republican Senate candidate from Rhode Island says he's going to run for governor of Colorado.Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey took on then-incumbent U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee in the Republican primary in 2006. Laffey had the backing of conservative groups, but lost the primary. Chafee lost in the general election.Laffey, a former investment banker with six children, ...

  • Parole officer Coloradans at risk

    DENVER - Expired bullet proof vests, lack of gear and safety issues are just some of the concerns for a parole officer, who said, the Colorado Department of Corrections leaders are lying to taxpayers to hide their mistakes. The officer, who we are not identifying because he fears retribution from his bosses, decided to come forward after the CALL7 Investigators began asking questions about Even ...

  • Tornado devastated Windsor 5 years ago

    WINDSOR, Oklahoma - 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 officially touched down just northeast of Platteville at approximately 11:26 a.m. and lifted just northeast of Ft. Collins at 12:16 p.m. The ...

  • CSPD arrests kidnapping suspect

    Colorado Springs, CO - On May 20, 2013 at about 11:00pm, the Colorado Springs Police received a call regarding a kidnapping situation. Police responded to an apartment in the Parkridge Apartments, located in the 2600 block of E. Serendipity Circle, where they contacted the victim. The victim reported that he was taken from his apartment against his will, at gunpoint, about an hour earlier by an ...

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