Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:49 AM EST
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — There could be less jingle in the Salvation's Army's hallmark red kettles this season. The charity is testing kettles that take debit and credit cards.
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:12 PM EDT
The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:49 PM EDT
Colorado has spent about a fifth of its federal stimulus money.
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Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
Looking for happy faces? Don't go near employer health fairs in the coming months.
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Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:58 AM EDT
The parents who reported last week that their 6-year-old son may have been on board a giant, runaway balloon could potentially be in more trouble with the Federal Aviation Administration for making a phone call than for setting loose the saucer-shaped craft, aviation experts say.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:29 PM EDT
The store has a television lounge and a pool table, and snacks and acupuncture are free for customers who drop up to $130 an ounce on 16 varieties of marijuana. But a reviewer of the business warns the decor looks a little cliche, what with the Grateful Dead posters on the wall and the Mexican-blanket tablecloths.
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Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
There's nothing subtle about the sales pitch by abortion opponents who are gathering signatures at the Colorado State Fair for a ballot measure that would give legal rights to fertilized embryos.
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Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:07 PM EDT
Global warming is threatening America's national parks. But there is no consensus about how to prevent the harm.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:22 PM EDT
For three decades, doctors in a small Colorado town have agreed to share the expense of treating the poor, lowering costs for everyone and recently gaining praise from Democrats as a model of what health care overhaul should look like.
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Sat Aug 1, 2009 1:30 PM EDT
Don't tell Dorothy J. Tenorio that Washington is nearing a deal to improve her health care.
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Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:43 PM EDT
Summer camps are contending with more than bug bites and poison ivy this year: They're on the lookout for swine flu.
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Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:33 PM EDT
The mammoth federal stimulus package was signed into law months ago in Denver, but folks like Gary Yoshimura are still waiting to see what good it will do.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:41 AM EDT
Homeless teenagers at a central Colorado shelter are feeling the effect of the government's economic stimulus package. It's the feeling of a dentist's drill.
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Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:02 PM EDT
You know the economy's bad when teens can't get summer jobs at fast-food restaurants or movie theaters.
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Tue Apr 7, 2009 4:22 PM EDT
American schoolchildren need to be in class more — six days a week, at least 11 months a year — if they are to compete with students abroad, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday.
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:59 PM EDT
Fog, wind and drifting snow is making travel difficult on the Colorado plains as a potent spring storm plodded eastward into Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:32 AM EST
Drawn to the lavish dance numbers in films from India, or just bored with their gym workouts, people are flocking to Bollywood-style dance classes that mix traditional Indian folk dances with hip-hop moves. And the U.S. exercise industry is taking notice.
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Sat Feb 7, 2009 3:50 AM EST
When you think of Abraham Lincoln, you think of ... Idaho?
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Wed Feb 4, 2009 2:36 PM EST
In this economy, lawmakers are more willing to let people smoke 'em if they got 'em.
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Tue Jan 6, 2009 5:33 AM EST
Barack Obama knows Colorado's new senator better than most state voters do.
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Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:28 PM EST
A whip-smart lawyer who has turned successively to the worlds of business and education, Denver Superintendent Michael Bennet won't have much trouble adjusting to the biggest promotion of his life: to U.S. senator.
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Mon Dec 8, 2008 4:03 AM EST
When Tom Tancredo, the lightning-rod Colorado conservative, went to Congress a decade ago, he promised he wouldn't disappear in Washington. He sure didn't.
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Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:16 AM EDT
Those who hope Colorado becomes the first state where voters say life begins at conception are facing resistance from a seemingly unexpected place: The Roman Catholic Church and anti-abortion activists.
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Sat Oct 4, 2008 3:00 PM EDT
University of Colorado freshman Darian Salehy loves college life so far — except for one thing.
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Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:55 PM EDT
A group of suspected drug users arrested in Denver this weekend with methamphetamine, guns and bulletproof vests made racist threats against Barack Obama but posed no true danger to the presidential candidate as he accepts the Democratic nomination here this week, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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