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Hold the phone: Bill to limit cell use fails

DENVER – New restrictions on cellphone use while driving stalled in the Colorado House as lawmakers wrestled with emotional testimony and the logistics of enforcing the proposal. ...

DATE: Mar 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Candy Crush? State may ban it while driving

Bill would restrict phones unless driver is using hands-free device

DATE: Mar 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Bill would expand reporting rights to Colo. therapists

DENVER – Colorado mental-health providers would get expanded authority to report threats to places like movie theaters and schools under a bill given initial approval in the state House on W...

DATE: Mar 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Has state background-check law been working?

Data analysis may need more time to differentiate new law from old one

DATE: Mar 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado releases new data on firearm background checks

DENVER – The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has released new data showing little change in the number of background checks for private firearm transactions before and after a law expanding...

DATE: Mar 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Here’s some cyberbullying relief for your kids

Questions remain whether current law already covers topic

DATE: Feb 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Bill would limit early releases in state prisons

Inmates also could revoke earned time

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Looks like you’ll be out of bars at 2

Proposal to extend last call falls flat

DATE: Feb 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Worry not about last call

You could stay out drinking longer under new bill

DATE: Feb 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Attorney general race focuses on gay rights

DENVER – The Democratic candidate for Colorado attorney general says the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional rights of gay couples, and the law should...

DATE: Feb 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP attempts repeal of magazine limits

DENVER – Gun-rights advocates who want to see a repeal of Colorado’s limits on the size of ammunition magazines realize their chances are slim when they go before Democrat-controlled committ...

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Here’s your new state, business logo

DENVER – Hate Colorado’s new state logo? It’s not going anywhere. Democrats defeated a Republican proposal to let voters decide whether to keep Colorado’s new state logo, which h...

DATE: Feb 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Regional News