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BREAKING: Grand jury indicts police, paramedics in death of Elijah McClain
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NEW: Charlotte Figi, 13-year-old Coloradan whose CBD journey inspired medical marijuana reform, dies of coronavirus
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BREAKING: Independent investigation finds Aurora police didn't have legal basis to stop, frisk or choke Elijah McClain
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NEW: Hear the audio from 911 calls of neighbors' confrontation with Lauren Boebert's husband (WARNING: this audio contains graphic content and has been edited to remove identifiable information of the callers)
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“It seemed like all of us had imagined we’d be in a situation like this at some point in our lives." — James Bentz, 57, who said he was inside the store when the shooting happened.
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JUST IN: Despite a strong start from incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, her challenger Adam Frisch has taken the lead in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.
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Longtime Broomfield residents had never seen the sights they witnessed Saturday after airplane debris landed in their lawns and damaged their properties.
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BREAKING: Colorado is now the 22nd state to abolish the death penalty and Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentences of the three men on death row.
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NEW: Elijah McClain’s family filed a federal lawsuit today alleging the Aurora police officers and paramedics involved in his death violated his constitutional rights.
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
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Boulder police said the boy was riding his bicycle with a Trump sign when a woman on a moped saw the sign and turned around to confront the boy.
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LATEST: 12,000 people told to evacuate Superior as winds as high as 100 mph spread flames from two grass fires in Boulder County.
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Opinion: Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert
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Trump campaign attorneys have sent a letter of demands to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold following the release of partial voting system passwords online
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Castle Rock will support “any and all” immigration policies and deportation efforts from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, town council members said Tuesday.
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BREAKING: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to issue a statewide mask mandate amid growing coronavirus cases 😷
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JUST IN: Grand jury declines to indict Aurora officer who shot, killed an unarmed black man
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Ivanka Trump will visit Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park for a two-day tour later this week, the White House announced today.
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BREAKING: Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 9 years in prison for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome.
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A top Democrat said the House will vote Thursday on removing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees, intensifying the stakes over the Georgia Republican’s online embrace of conspiracy theories and violent racist views.
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NEW: Transgender kids and adults in North Dakota won’t be able to access bathrooms, locker rooms or shower rooms that match the gender they identify with under a new law covering some state-run facilities
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"We have determined — based on hours of sworn testimony, text messages, emails and the president’s own words — that Trump has so abused the power of his office that for him to remain in the White House is a threat to our democracy."
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Colorado is among eight states that will make school breakfasts and lunches permanently free to all students starting this academic year, regardless of family income.
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Littleton man sentenced to 3 years for attacking police during U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6
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A Loveland police officer who arrested Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, pushing her to the ground and handcuffing her, after she walked away from a store without paying for about $14 worth of items was placed on administrative leave.
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“He didn’t say shit,” said one witness. “He just came in and started shooting.”
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PHOTOS: @IvankaTrump visited Rocky Mountain National Park today, touting the United States House’s recent passage of the Great American Outdoors Act: via @aaronontiveroz.
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Gov. Polis responds to accusations that his stay-at-home order is akin to Nazism: "As a Jewish-American who lost family in the Holocaust, I'm offended by any comparison to Nazism. We act to save lives; the exact opposite of the slaughter of 6 million . " (Video: @denverchannel)
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Editorial: Democrats should stop protecting their own and support an audit of the Secretary of State’s Office
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JUST IN: Sen. Bernie Sanders announces September rally in downtown Denver via @sam_tabachnik.
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Sailor in iconic V-J Day Times Square kiss photo dies at 95
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Shoppers pulled out their own guns in response to Thornton #Walmartshooting, police say that slowed investigation.
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JUST IN: Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election deniers, has been found guilty in a breach of her county’s election computer system in a jury verdict returned Monday at trial.
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UPDATE: Drug Enforcement Administration officials said that 41 of the 49 people inside the building at the time of the raid were undocumented immigrants, some associated with the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
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On final night of his CU basketball career, all point guard McKinley Wright IV could think was: “Some coward went in and shot up a King Soopers.”
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More scene from the #MarshallFire by @hrichardson and @HyoungChang . See more photos from the Boulder County fires here:
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UPDATE: The Denver district attorney has launched an investigation into how a spreadsheet of voting system passwords ended up on the Colorado secretary of state’s website earlier this year.
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NEW: Colorado now guarantees the right to abortion in state law
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#BREAKING: Jared Polis has won the governor's race in Colorado, making him the first openly gay governor elected to office in the country #Election2018 #copolitics
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Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
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JUST IN: Hickenlooper signs executive action barring Colorado resources from being used to separate immigrant families
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"If Kroger can afford to pay the CEO more than $20 million and spend more than $1.5 billion on stock buybacks, it can afford to provide its employees “good benefits, safe working conditions and reliable work schedules”.
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BREAKING: Colorado won’t cooperate with criminal or civil investigations for people who provide, assist with or receive abortions in the state, Gov. Jared Polis directed in an executive order Wednesday.
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No, several large Colorado school districts said Tuesday, they are not having issues with students identifying as cats or other animals, as Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl has repeatedly claimed is happening in schools across the state.
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Castle Rock declares support, offers law enforcement backup for Trump’s deportation plans
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Colorado Secretary of State “improperly” posted partial election equipment passwords to website
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NEW: Here's how you can help the hundreds of Coloradans who lost their homes today to wildfires.
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A federal judge in Colorado has sided with U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and will not force her to unblock a former state lawmaker on Twitter.
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Due to a production error, an image of Citizens Bank Park ran in place of Coors Field on the cover of today's Life & Culture section. Please enjoy this beautiful image of Coors Field photographed yesterday. The Denver Post sincerely regrets the error.
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"Former President Donald Trump invited himself to Aurora to demonize immigrants and continue what he does best — divide us," Colorado Senator Michael Bennet writes of today's Trump rally at Gaylord Rockies.
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“Are we having a debate or an interview? … Oh you’re going to fact-check me during the interview? This is adorable.” In a recent interview with CPR's Ryan Warner, Rep. Lauren Boebert was mean, rude & dripping with anger and sarcasm, Megan Schrader writes
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In a warning for Colorado Democrats, a new poll shows their popularity slipping. Now what?
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Editorial: Democrats should stop protecting their own and support an audit of the Secretary of State’s Office
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BREAKING: Ebola virus possible for Denver Health patient in isolation
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BREAKING: Colorado public health officials on Tuesday confirmed the presence of the new variant of COVID-19 first discovered in the U.K., saying the state is the first to identify the strain in the United States.
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Two suspected Tren de Aragua gang members arrested for murder in Aurora
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NEW: CU athletics informed The Denver Post that head coach Deion Sanders and anyone else within the Buffs football program will no longer take questions from columnist Sean Keeler due to what CU perceives as “a series of sustained, personal attacks” .
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Longmont native Jenna Ellis, who worked as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, faces an effort to disbar her in Colorado for her role in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
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UPDATE: Denver voters repeal the city’s pit bull ban with 64.41% support as early election returns were reported just after 10 p.m. Tuesday.
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Douglas County commissioners unanimously support Trump’s immigration plans, deportations
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NEW: Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.
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Gabe Evans flips 8th Congressional District for Republicans as Rep. Yadira Caraveo concedes race
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A new Ruth Bader Ginsburg mural popped up in downtown Denver this weekend
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Colorado has made it a misdemeanor to knowingly carry a firearm onto school grounds, into a polling place, or inside a government building under a law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.
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Colorado households are spending $5,134 more a year for housing and utilities, $5,582 more for food, $2,104 more for recreation and $515 more for gasoline than in 2019 -- and those inflation worries are a top issue for voters
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An anonymous $2 million donation has paid Colorado Symphony salaries through summer 2021
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BREAKING: Polis has closed Colorado bars for in-person service — just two weeks after allowing them to reopen at limited capacity — due to the increasing spread of the novel coronavirus.
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JUST IN: Colorado voters select Joe Biden in 2020 presidential race
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Yes, we got hacked. No, we don't yet know how or why. Yes, we are changing all the passwords and blocking all the bots. Best wishes, warmest regards.
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BREAKING: Colorado among first in U.S. to adopt historic police reforms following protests, @BySajaHindi reports
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Former President Trump cites Aurora as city in which to “start” mass deportations of immigrants
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Bernie Sanders took the stage in Denver on Sunday evening to a deafening roar from a crowd of many thousands of people who rarely let up. via @alex_burness
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#BREAKING: The Denver Police Department on Sunday evening announced a trio of major policy changes, including banning officers from using chokeholds and requiring them to alert supervisors any time they point a gun at someone.
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Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He has vowed to use federal money as leverage
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Endorsement: John Hickenlooper is a man Coloradans can trust to keep their interests at heart, to make sound decisions, and to help repair our national system of governance.
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BREAKING: Tri-County Health Department orders Castle Rock restaurant to close after it opened for dine-in service Sunday
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A congressional committee has asked Denver Mayor Mike Johnston to testify in Washington, D.C., next month to defend the city’s policies limiting local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
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NEW: "Attending large gatherings doesn't just put yourself at risk but also puts your job and your family and your loved ones at risk," Polis said. "No government policy can force anybody not to be stupid, but I'm calling on Coloradans not to be stupid."
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JUST IN: Sweeping police reform bill passes Colorado Senate 32-1, heads to House next: by @bysajahindi #copolitics.
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The newspaper reported that 3 men were arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl multiple times during a party at Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood's house. But almost every copy of the paper was stolen from newspaper boxes around town
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Colorado's economic growth, measured by state GDP, went from fifth best in the nation over the prior 15 years to 41st this year.
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Rikki Olds, a 25-year-old King Soopers employee, was among the 10 people killed in the Boulder grocery store on Monday.
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#BREAKING #Denver first in the nation to decriminalize magic mushrooms in close vote, @AndyKnny reports #DenverVotes
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JUST IN: Democratic state Rep. Yadira Caraveo will become Colorado’s first Latina congressional representative after her Republican opponent, state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, conceded the 8th Congressional District contest Wednesday evening
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BREAKING: After 21 years, the Pepsi Center will be renamed Ball Arena
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To battle the coronavirus, he’s told states they’re largely on their own. But when it comes to stamping out protests in cities led by Democrats, Trump is sending in federal troops and agents — even when local leaders are begging him to butt out.
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NEW: Hours after the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story detailing the alleged violent sexual assault of a teenage girl at the home of the Ouray police chief, someone stole hundreds of copies out of nearly every newspaper rack across the county.
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Indiana’s governor signed a bill that will require schools to notify a parent if a student requests a name or pronoun change at school, one of the final bills approved in a legislative session that had targeted LGBTQ+ people in the state
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Denver Mattress on Wednesday produced 1,200 non-rated face masks at its Denver factory, with plans to ramp up to 3,000 to 5,000 per day moving forward
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Opinion | Editorial: Lauren Boebert’s role in the insurrection must also be investigated
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Opinion: Colorado’s newest member of the congressional delegation, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, took her oath of office last Sunday. By Wednesday, she had made a mockery of her oath to defend the Constitution.
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Colorado now legally bars anyone previously convicted of any of 110 different felony crimes from possessing a gun, under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Jared Polis.
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