Last week, a Centaurus High student was busted after an explosive device was found near a high-traffic area of the school.
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So it's understandable that the discovery of what was termed a suspicious bag would cause a freak-out among officials at Boulder's Fairview High School, not to mention the media.
Turns out, though, that the item wasn't a bomb. It was a science project.
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There's an undeniable fascination about urban bears rescues, as witnessed by the way a photo of a bear in Boulder last year went viral; see the original pic, plus a meme and GIF below.
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No telling if images of a bear being plucked from a tree in Colorado Springs yesterday will become equally ubiquitous. But the operation, which involved not one but two tranquilizer darts and a precarious effort utilizing a fire truck's ladder, was certainly striking. See photos, a video and more below.
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Late last year, when we first posted about the search for Kara Nichols, she was nineteen.
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Today, more than eight months after she set out from her Colorado Springs home for Denver, she turns twenty. Her loved ones are marking the date even as they're emphasizing that despite the passage of time, they're not giving up on locating an aspiring model said to have been involved in drugs and prostitution. Photos, details and our original coverage below.
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A new government report on the rate of sexual victimization in America's jails and prisons lists the Denver Women's Correctional Facility as having the highest rate of sexual assault and misconduct by staff of any lockup in the nation -- four times the national average, in fact. That figure is dismaying state corrections officials, already reeling from parole snafus and the murder of prison chief Tom Clements.
It may also be more than slightly misleading.
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On a day when representatives of more than fifty county sheriffs will hold a news conference announcing a lawsuit against Colorado's new gun-control laws comes a tragic reminder of how dangerous semi-automatic weapons can be -- even to those who own them.
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The victim: Anastasia Adair, 22, who appears to have shot and killed herself while showing off her new assault rifle, thought to be an AK-47.
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Reporter Keli Rabon's 7News story about the rate at which Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey declines to prosecute sex assault cases would attract attention under any circumstances. But at least as interesting are several videos featuring Morrissey, including an uncut, nine-minutes-plus clip in which he rips Rabon and suggests that her use of editing is unfair. See it and much more below.
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Why air such criticism? Jeff Harris, news director for 7News, explains.
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Update: Late last month, we shared the latest about the search for Kelsie Jean Schelling, a Denver woman missing since February. Her family revealed that she'd just learned she was pregnant and had driven to Pueblo to see her boyfriend when she vanished.
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Months later, her loved ones show no signs of abandoning their quest for answers and Schelling's safe return. They've just erected billboards in Pueblo (see one below) and are coordinating a search party for this weekend.
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The phrase "suicide by cop" remains in the common lexicon because incidents that seem to fall under it happen on a fairly regular basis. This 2010 post and another from 2011 are cases in point.
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Something similar happened last night on the 2600 block of Federal -- and chillingly, some of the interactions between a man holding a gun to his head and officers who'd wind up shooting and killing him was caught on video. See it and more below.
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A federal lawsuit against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and other city officials, filed by one of Hizzoner's former best buds and top advisors, has been dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge John Kane -- just when filings in the case were getting interesting.
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Ex-aide Wayne McDonald's complaint of wrongful termination had hinted at ominous revelations to come, not only about his rift with the mayor but some of the Hancock administration's more curious hiring practices. But Kane ruled there was more smoke than fire in McDonald's argument.
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Is changing a diaper in public a criminal offense?
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This question arises in relation to a recent incident involving Alex and Ruth Burgos, who had to face questions from police after an incident that followed their decision to change their baby's diaper in the public area of a Denver Starbucks.
Is Starbucks the villain in this scenario? Not according to plenty of folks responding to the Burgos's tale on social media.
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