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  • Lightning causes two wildfires off Highway 9

    The Fremont County Sheriff's Office is reporting lightning strikes started two small wildfires off Highway 9 Saturday evening, approximately 4 miles north of US 50. Twenty personnel from the Fremont County Sheriff's Office, Tallahassee, and Deer Mountain fire departments worked a quarter-acre fire northeast of SH 9 while twenty-two firefighters from the Bureau of Land Management and ...

  • Colorado Springs man shoots his finger while cleaning gun and drinking

    A man accidently shot his left index finger while cleaning his gun, and apparently drinking, Colorado Springs police said. Joshua Crabtree was cleaning the gun in a residence in the 500 block of South Hancock Avenue at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday when the gun went off. He was taken to Memorial Hospital and treated for the injury.Tom McGhee: ...

  • Montrose considers retail marijuana ban

    Daily Press reports the council previously passed a six-month moratorium on the consideration of applications by businesses that want to sell pot, and it will meet Tuesday night for a first reading on an ordinance that would make that prohibition permanent.Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 in November, allowing for the recreational use and sale of small amounts of marijuana by those 21 and ...

  • WWIIs Memphis Belle to visit Colorado

    BROOMFIELD, Colo. - The Memphis Belle, a restored World War II B-17 bomber, is due to arrive at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport next weekend for public flights and tours.The B-17, nicknamed the "Flying Fortress," was the workhorse heavy bomber used against the Axis powers. It featured several heavy-caliber machine guns and could strike deep within enemy territory.The Memphis ...

  • Neb. woman helped hide Denver mans body

    ALLIANCE, Neb. - A Nebraska woman admitted helping hide the body of a Denver man months before her boyfriend, who told police he killed the man, died in an armed standoff.Rose Siefke, 20, pleaded guilty Friday to being an accessory to a felony in the death of 38-year-old Joshua Bullock of Denver.Siefke's trial was scheduled to begin Monday, but she agreed to plead to the reduced charge ...

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J.J. Abramss ambitious reinvention of the more than 40-year-old science fiction flagship Star Trek, which hasnt boldly gone across a silver screen since 2002s dark and poorly received Star Trek: Nemesis, works in just about every way you could hope. Against the od ... ...

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  • Denver police investigate Sunday morning shooting

    Denver police are investigating a non-fatal shooting early Sunday at 32nd Avenue and Quebec Street. The victim, who was shot at about 1 a.m. either walked or drove to Martin Luther King Boulevard and Olive Street and "someone he knew" called 911 at 1:17 a.m., said Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez. The man was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are ...

  • 3 hurt in Colorado Springs knife fight

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Three men were injured when a knife fight broke out on a Colorado Springs trail Saturday night.Officers in the area of I-25 at Cimarron Bridge arrived at the scene and found that two people had been stabbed and another sustained cuts on the trail area that runs south of Cimarron Street.Investigators found that a man and a woman had been involved in a physical domestic ...

  • Neb. gunmans girlfriend admits helping hide body

    ALLIANCE, Neb. (AP) -- A 20-year-old Hemingford woman has admitted helping hide the body of a Denver man in northwest Nebraska months before her boyfriend died in an armed ...

  • Coyote attacks 2 children at Colo. Springs park

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Wildlife officials are looking for a coyote they say attacked two small children at a Colorado Springs park this ...

  • Montrose City Council mulls ban on retail pot

    http://bit.ly/16A944s ) the council previously passed a six-month moratorium on the consideration of applications by businesses that want to sell pot, and it will meet Tuesday night for a first reading on an ordinance that would make that prohibition ...

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