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  • Nuggets-Warriors Game 6 Gameday

    Posted May 3, 2013 05:40 OAKLAND, Calif. - Handed the toughest early season schedule imaginable, the Denver Nuggets banded together and persevered. After losing their best outside shooter to a knee injury in the first week of April, they went on to set a team NBA record with 57 victories and secured the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. Conceding defeat wasn't part of Denver's ...

  • Denver Business Journal wins 33 awards in 4-state Society of Professional Journalists news competition

    The DBJ's award-winning coverage of the 2012 election. The Denver Business Journal staff has won 33 awards, including 13 first-place honors, in a four-state Society of Professional Journalists competition. The SPJ's "Top of the Rockies" awards for excellence in newspaper, digital and broadcast news were presented Friday night at the Denver Press Club. The Journal won nearly twice ...

  • Colorado sheriffs sue the state over new gun control laws

    filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state Friday in an effort to overturn two new gun control bills that are set to go into effect on July 1. The plaintiffs have in their sights one law that effectively bans all firearm magazines, and one that requires a background check for every gun transfer when the gun will be in the possession of someone other than the owner for more than 72 ...

  • No. 3 Nuggets set to face No. 6 Golden State in playoffs

    Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images After setting NBA team records with 57 wins and 38 home victories, the Denver Nuggets are ready for the postseason. The Nuggets captured the No. 3 seed in the West with their 23rd consecutive home win Wednesday night and will open the Western Conference playoffs Saturday at Pepsi Center against the Golden State Warriors. Denver (57-25) and the Warriors ...

  • FIGHTING BACKColorado Sheriffs Sue Over New State Gun Restrictions

    May 17 2013: Weld County, Colo., Sheriff John Cooke, left, with El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, center right, and other sheriffs standing behind him, speaks during a news conference at which he announced that 54 Colorado sheriffs are filing a federal civil lawsuit against two gun control bills passed by the Colorado Legislature, in ...

Movie Review

Spy Kids

Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids is a high-octane children's fantasy in which a couple of kids find out that their parents are not only retired secret agents, but they have been kidnapped by an arch-villain and it is up to the two kids to save the day. It's the ultimate kid's dream come true in the way everything about reality is inverted to their liking. Adults become the victims in need of he ... ...

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  • Rapids Game Day preview Colorado at San Jose Earthquakes

    San Jose forward Chris Wondolowski SANTA CLARA, CA - MAY 02: Chris Wondolowski #8 of the San Jose Earthquakes in action against the D.C. United at Buck Shaw Stadium on May 2, 2012 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) --> (Ezra Shaw, Getty ...

  • Cooler stormier by Sunday

    DENVER - Things heated-up across Colorado to wrap up the work week! Most locations along and east of I-25 topped out well into the 80s Friday afternoon -- well above the average high of 72. Cooler days are ahead, along with some rain.Although clouds have increased over the last few hours, the storm/rain chance remains very low at this time. There will be an occasional breeze overnight, along ...

  • IRS scandal Colorado group awaits tax-exempt status

    WASHINGTON - A Colorado conservative group believed to be targeted by the Internal Revenue Service is operating without any tax-exempt status and spent more than $1 million last year against Democrats, public records show.The Citizen Awareness Project is chaired by Charlie Smith. He applied for 501(c)(4) status last year, which means he was applying to be a social welfare, tax-exempt ...

  • Chatwood ready to take on Lincecum Giants

    With Colorado starter Jeff Francis moving to the disabled list on Thursday with a left groin strain, the Rockies called up right-hander Tyler Chatwood to start Saturday's game against the Giants. In Chatwood's last outing on April 29, he threw six scoreless innings in a 12-2 victory over the Dodgers before he was sent down to Triple-A Colorado Springs to clear room for the return of ...

  • Big man battle getting physical in Nuggets-Warriors series

    JaVale McGee refused to comply with the unusual request. Locked in an a tight playoff game, the Denver Nuggets center found himself face-to-face with Andrew Bogut, who pointed to his chin and shouted over the din of the sellout crowd at Oracle Arena. "He told me to punch him in the chin," McGee said. "I don't know why you'd want somebody to punch you in your ...

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