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Colorado coach: NCAA ‘missed the boat’ on redshirt ruling

BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado basketball coach Tad Boyle is upset with an NCAA decision that will force freshman forward Evan Battey to take an academic redshirt this season. “We lost...

Rock climber dies in fall from Boulder’s First Flatiron

BOULDER – Authorities say a rock climber is dead after falling from the First Flatiron in Boulder. Carrie Haverfield, a spokeswoman for the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, told T...

Pope encourages young U.S. immigrants to dream

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday encouraged young immigrants who may be affected by the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting them from deportation to keep dream...

NBC News takes Mark Halperin off air after harassment claims

NEW YORK – MSNBC says journalist Mark Halperin has been suspended from his role as network contributor following charges from five women who claimed he sexually harassed them while he was an...

10 Commandments monument in New Mexico moving off city land

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. – A group that erected a monument honoring the Ten Commandments six years ago on city-owned property in a small New Mexico city will remove the monument and put it on privat...

California company recalls vegetables over listeria fears

SALINAS, Calif. – A California company has voluntarily recalled packaged vegetables distributed throughout the U.S. and Canada because of possible bacterial contamination. Mann Pa...

Papers believed to be lost in Holocaust go on display in U.S.

NEW YORK – The American public is getting a chance to view newly discovered Jewish documents that had been presumed destroyed during the Holocaust. Ten documents brought over from...

New Mexico’s bid for Amazon HQ offers binational option

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – New Mexico’s bid for Amazon’s second headquarters includes a southern option that proposes a binational effort on a location that straddles the U.S. border with Mexico. ...

Masked man ‘forcefully’ grabs woman at Halloween-themed maze

LITTLETON – A woman visiting a Halloween-themed Colorado corn maze says a man in all black, wearing a white mask, jumped out from the corn stalks and demanded she dance with him, touch him, ...

Deputies: N.M. man drove golf cart while drunk, flipped it over

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – A New Mexico man is facing charges after authorities say he drove a golf cart while drunk and crashed it into a fence. The Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office said...

Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D thesis goes online, website crashes

LONDON – Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website. Completed in 1966 when Hawking w...

3 dead after car crashes into northern Colorado lake

GREELEY – Three men are dead after their car veered off a road into a lake in northern Colorado. The Greeley Tribune reported that witnesses saw the car speed off the road in Gree...