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Mennonite investigator jailed after refusing to testify

DENVER – A defense investigator in a Colorado death penalty case is behind bars after refusing to testify for prosecutors, saying that helping their effort to execute a defendant would viola...

Lawsuit challenges El Paso County sheriff’s attempt to hold immigrants

DENVER – The Colorado American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit contending a sheriff’s department is improperly holding people in the country illegally on behalf of federal a...

Colorado lawmaker faces expulsion over sex misconduct claims

DENVER – A lawmaker from Colorado accused of sexual misconduct could face an expulsion vote as early as Friday. Rep. Steve Lebsock, who represents a suburban Denver district, has ...

Navajo Nation cancels plans for wild horse hunt in Arizona

FARMINGTON, N.M. – The Navajo Nation canceled a planned wild horse hunt aimed at thinning a herd in an Arizona area after a protest against the hunt was planned. The Farmington Da...

Guns in schools? 2 Columbine survivors are split on issue

DENVER – Patrick Neville was outside, sneaking off to smoke with friends, and avoided the outburst of gunfire at Columbine High School nearly two decades ago, but he did not dodge the heartb...

Denver approves city’s first legal marijuana club

DENVER – Officials in Colorado’s largest city on Monday approved Denver’s first legal marijuana club and joined a small number of business across the country allowing people to consume in st...

Lawsuit accuses Colorado Springs, others of violating accessibility laws

COLORADO SPRINGS – A disabled veteran and his wife have filed a lawsuit against Colorado Springs and others, alleging the city is woefully out of compliance with federal laws demanding equal...

Girl dies 2 days after crash that killed mother, brother

DENVER – Authorities say a 3-year-old girl died two days after being in a crash in northern Colorado that killed her mother and her brother. Colorado State Patrol says 29-year-old...

Denver weighs bid for Olympics after saying no thanks 42 years ago

DENVER – It promised ample snow and sunny weather on a normally bare, rocky peak easily accessible by a “super highway,” thousands more hotel rooms than existed and a cross-country ski cours...

2 dead in skiing and snowboarding accidents, one near Telluride

DENVER – Two people are dead in skiing and snowboarding accidents in Colorado. The Summit County Sheriff’s Office says a skier collided with a tree at Keystone Resort on Sunday. T...

Officials install well to clean up fuel leak at military base in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – Officials working to clean up groundwater contaminated by a jet fuel leak on a New Mexico military base hope a new extraction well will cut off the source of the contaminated p...

NBA agent killed in Colorado crash; 5-year-old son injured

ASPEN – Longtime NBA agent Dan Fegan died in a car crash Sunday. He was 56. The Colorado State Patrol says Fegan was driving an SUV when he tried to merge onto a highway and was b...