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Cleanup efforts underway after industry leaks in Colorado

GRAND JUNCTION – Cleanup efforts are underway after two recent leaks from oil and gas facilities in western Colorado. The Daily Sentinel reports a buried natural gas gatherin...

DATE: Jan 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Authorities find suspected stash house for human trafficking

SUNLAND PARK, N.M. – Authorities from the United States and Mexico are investigating after a 17-year-old from Guatemala and his father say they were held against their will in a house in Mex...

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Russian Olympic Committee rejects prospect of 2020 ban

MOSCOW – The Russian Olympic Committee said Tuesday there is no chance its team could be banned from next year’s Olympics, even though that’s the consequence threatened by a key World Anti-D...

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Former world downhill skiing champion retires

KITZBUEHEL, Austria – Swiss skier Patrick Kueng has retired from the sport, four years after winning the world downhill title at Beaver Creek. The 35-year-old speed specialist ann...

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Colorado’s Polis creates office to reduce health care costs

DENVER – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed an executive order creating an office to coordinate his administration’s efforts to reduce health care costs. Polis signed the order ...

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Two plead not guilty to starting Colorado wildfire

EAGLE – Two people accused of starting a wildfire in western Colorado last summer by firing incendiary tracer rounds at a shooting range have pleaded not guilty. Twenty-three-ye...

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Gradisar on track to become Pueblo’s first mayor in decades

PUEBLO – Pueblo is getting its first mayor in decades. Ballots in Tuesday’s runoff mayoral election are still being counted in the southern Colorado city, but there aren’t expecte...

DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Acosta, Glad, Bono, Miller cut from U.S. soccer roster

CHICAGO – Colorado midfielder Kellyn Acosta has been cut from the U.S. soccer roster for upcoming exhibitions against Panama and Costa Rica. New coach Gregg Berhalter also dropp...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Kjetil Jansrud out after breaking hand in downhill skiing crash

KITZBUEHEL, Austria – Norwegian skier Kjetil Jansrud is facing an injury layoff after breaking two bones in his left hand in a downhill training crash Tuesday, two weeks before the start of ...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Denver teachers voting on whether to strike over pay

DENVER – Denver teachers are finishing up a vote on whether to go on strike. Voting started Saturday and is set to end Tuesday night. Two-thirds of unionized teachers would have t...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge accepts plea deal in Tumpkin assault case

Former Colorado coach has suit settled

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Interstate 70 in eastern Colorado reopens after storm

DENVER – Blowing snow shut down highways Tuesday on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, stranding truckers and other travelers at the edge of the Denver area. A line of trucks and cars str...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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