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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, ...
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 ...
Denver Comic Con loses Stan Lee and gains William Shatner

The Denver Post , Lee apologized by saying ""Just want you to know I'm disappointed as hell that I can't make your Con in Denver this year. Something came up in regards to one of my next cameos, and I can't face the fury of all of Marveldom Assembled by not being available for the ...
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 ...

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The River [DVD]

Jean Renoir's The River is one of the most fascinating multinational productions of its era. An independently financed American film directed by a French expatriate about British colonists shot entirely in India (then a strangely exotic and relatively unknown country in the West), The Ri ... ...

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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 ...
No charges in Highlands Ranch shooting

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has determined no crime was committed when a Highlands Ranch man was accidentally shot with a gun belonging to a Boulder police officer earlier this month.The incident happened in the driveway of a home in the 400 block of Spring Grove Avenue on May 3 as three friends were working on a car. One of the friends owned the home where ...
Dave Noren missing since May 19

LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Lakewood Police are asking for help finding David "Dave" Noren, who was last seen on May 19.The 49-year-old has no known medical conditions, prompting Lakewood police to call his disappearance "very unusual."Police say Noren is known to frequent the Pub on Colfax.Anyone who knows where to find Noren, or who knows information that would help to find him, is ...

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James Holmes to enter insanity plea for 'Batman' massacre

CENTENNIAL, Colorado - The man accused of the July 2012 massacre at a Batman film premier in Colarado will plead not guilty because of "insanity", his lawyers have said.

The lawyers said that the 25-year-old James Holmes will ask for the change at a May 13 hearing related to the case of the murder of 12 dead people in a shooting that also injured 70 last year.

A judge previously entered a not guilty plea after the defence said Holmes was not ready to plead. That was a standard not guilty plea.

If the judge accepts the insanity plea, Holmes would be sent to the state mental hospital, where doctors would determine whether he was insane at the time of the shootings on July 20, 2012.

Holmes can still be found guilty despite a medical finding of insanity as he faces more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder and could be executed if he is convicted.

Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to distinguish right from wrong, caused by a diseased or defective mind.

Prosecutors have indicated they will seek the death penalty for the former graduate student as they described the slayings at the showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" as "especially heinous, cruel or depraved". ...