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Air Force Academy investigates racial slurs

AIR FORCE ACADEMY – Someone wrote racial slurs on message boards outside the dormitory rooms of five black students at a preparatory school on the U.S. Air Force Academy campus, school offic...

Man who gave cannabis to boy behind medical pot law charged

DENVER – A man who made cannabis oil for a Colorado boy who was instrumental in passing a state law requiring schools to allow students to use medical marijuana is facing several felony drug...

New Mexico Supreme Court strikes down judge’s gag order

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Supreme Court overturned a judge’s order barring a newspaper reporter and other people from disclosing information the judge deemed confidential at the trial of a b...

Donald Trump’s still criticizing NFL owners over players who kneel

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says National Football League team owners are “afraid of their players.” And he’s still calling for action against those who kneel during the national ant...

NFL teams return to practice, unity displays still in focus

As NFL teams returned to practice Wednesday, some conversations turned to football. Not all. The operative topic remained the demonstrations of unity each team showed last weekend...

Basalt adding more affordable housing

BASALT – More affordable housing is in the works in the western Colorado town of Basalt, including units that would go to teachers. The Aspen Times reports that officials backed...

Robert Plant releases new track, announces 2018 tour

NEW YORK – Robert Plant is going on tour in North America next year to support his upcoming album, “Carry Fire.” The former Led Zeppelin frontman announced Tuesday that his 2018 t...

Colorado teacher to tout nontraditional teaching method in D.C.

COLORADO SPRINGS – An Air Force veteran and fifth-grade teacher from Colorado is making a trip to Washington, D.C., to tell Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about the nontraditional teaching ...

Few Colorado intimate photo cases reach verdict, despite law

DENVER – A Colorado law designed to punish people for posting intimate photos of former lovers or spouses on the internet has resulted in nearly 200 charges since it was passed in 2014. But ...

California woman gives land sale inheritance to Utah tribe

SALT LAKE CITY – A retired California professor gave $250,000 to a northeastern Utah tribe to compensate for her great-grandparents profiting off land that once belonged to the tribe. ...

A-Basin, Loveland making snow with aim of October opening

DENVER – The race to become the first ski resort in Colorado to open for the season has begun. Loveland and Arapahoe Basin have fired up their snow guns in the hope of opening s...

Myanmar officials: Insurgents killed 45 Hindu villagers

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar officials said Monday they have discovered at least 45 slain Hindus in three mass graves in the Southeast Asian country’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine state. The ...