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MMA great Ken Shamrock starts bare-knuckle boxing promotion

LOS ANGELES – Mixed martial arts great Ken Shamrock is jumping into bare-knuckle boxing promotion. Shamrock is starting a promotional company in the growing combat sport, he ann...

Rapinoe accepts Capitol invitation for U.S. women’s soccer

WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says Megan Rapinoe has accepted an invitation for the U.S. women’s soccer team to celebrate its World Cup victory with a visit to Congress...

Avalanche give contract extension to coach Jared Bednar

Back-to-back playoff trips leads to coach’s new deal

Colorado hospital to ask patients to provide gender identity

PUEBLO – A Colorado hospital will begin asking incoming patients to provide their gender identities as a way to improve treatment for transgendered people. The Pueblo Chiefta...

Police: Man killed in fight over July Fourth fireworks

AURORA – A Colorado prison guard is accused of killing his neighbor during an argument about fireworks on Independence Day. That’s according to court records released this week de...

Willie Nelson brings Farm Aid 2019 to Wisconsin’s dairy land

EAST TROY, Wis. – Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and the Dave Matthews Band will headline Farm Aid 2019 when the music and food festival visits Wisconsin’s dairy country in Septe...

Impaired driver crashes onto N.M. law enforcement driving track

SANTA FE – New Mexico State Police say officers were teaching driving techniques at the Law Enforcement Academy in Santa Fe when an impaired driver crashed his vehicle through a fence and on...

More than 100 sheep killed in northern Colorado truck crash

AULT – Police say that more than 100 sheep were killed after two trucks collided in northern Colorado. The Coloradoan reports that the driver of a Waste Management semitrailer ...

Longtime Denver Post, Business Journal editor Westergaard dead at 67

DENVER – Neil Westergaard, a former executive editor of Westergaard died Sunday after heart surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital, the Post reported Monday. Westergaard...

Women’s World Cup champion US team to attend The ESPYs

LOS ANGELES – Fresh off their victory at the Women’s World Cup, members of the U.S. national soccer team, along with top NBA draft pick Zion Williamson and world No. 1 golfer Brooks Koepka, ...

Northern Arizona football player found dead in home

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Northern Arizona University officials say a football player has died. The school’s athletics department said in a statement Monday that senior offensive lineman...

Colorado Springs zoo welcomes 6-foot-tall baby giraffe

COLORADO SPRINGS – A giraffe herd at a Colorado Springs zoo has welcomed its 16th member after the birth of a calf. The 10-year-old reticulated giraffe named Msitu gave birth Satu...