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         <description><![CDATA[Malouf-Spinden.&#8203;Editor's note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple's ongoing series highlighting local political activists.

In the house where she grew up, Ashlin Malouf-Spinden's fami]]></description>
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         <title>Regan Benson plans showdown with state board of ed over &quot;outspoken&quot; son</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Bryce Benson.&#8203;Regan Benson isn't afraid to speak her mind, and neither are her kids, including son Blake, who made news for sporting a "Nobama" banner during Michelle Obama's visit to Dakota Rid]]></description>
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         <title>Sports Authority Field at Mile High: City Planning and Development supports signage</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&#8203;Opinions on the proposed signage upgrade at Sports Authority Field at Mile High remain split.

On the same day the city's Community Planning and Development Board issued a statement approving t]]></description>
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         <title>Reader: Blue Mustang at Denver International Airport intended to scare off tourists</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&#8203;Our Sh*t People From Denver Say video continues to inspire comments that are funny, angry and weird -- sometimes simultaneously. And as usually happens in a good conversation, the tangents can ]]></description>
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         <title>Kent Denver students under investigation for Vail sex assault</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kent Denver.&#8203;Integrity. Respect. Personal growth. Community. Wisdom. These words are front and center on the website home page of Kent Denver School, one of the most highly touted (and expensive]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:22:37 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Sean Southwell cleared in Make My Day shooting of Jesus Sanchez</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&#8203;A homicide yesterday on West 9th Avenue is being described in some quarters as a Make My Day case, even though the shooter and the alleged intruder knew each other. The same was true of a Novem]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:51:04 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Kyle Dyer dog-bite story on Today show: 9News fighting to keep footage off Internet</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Patti Dennis.&#8203;This morning, the Today show is reporting on the Kyle Dyer dog bite without running video of the actual incident.

Why not? The story, on view below, announces that NBC -- the pare]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:52:45 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Marijuana: Tim Wilson, jailed in Japan for Cheeba Chews, reportedly to be released</title>
         <description><![CDATA[9News.com&#8203;Tim Wilson, a 25-year-old Colorado man arrested last year after Japanese authorities say he conspired to have marijuana candies sent to the weed-intolerant island nation will finally b]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:29:49 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Colorado firefighter calendar rises from the ashes tonight</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&#8203;The party had everything: a worthy beneficiary (the Children's Hospital Burn Center), lots of alcohol for the mostly female crowd, and stripped-down, smokin' hot firefighters. But then the Denv]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:03:47 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Kyle Dyer dog-bite fallout: Is the video news?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kyle Dyer.&#8203;The video of 9News morning anchor Kyle Dyer being bitten in the face by a rescued Argentine Mastiff yesterday morning has led to an enormous amount of debate in our comment section.

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         <title>Michael Clark, accused in Marty Grisham murder, bonds out of jail on DUI charge</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Big photos below.&#8203;Usually, individuals charged with first-degree murder who are fortunate enough to make bail are careful not to get into more trouble. But Michael Clark appears to be an excepti]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:24:35 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Medical marijuana to blame for 45 percent increase in school drug violations?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[www.ednewscolorado.org&#8203;Over the last four years, drug violations at Colorado K-12 schools have increased by roughly 45 percent.

And according to a report shared by Education News Colorado about]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:56:58 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Movies in Colorado: Industry, politicians rally for bill to increase filmmaker incentives</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&#8203; On a small stage on the steps of the Capitol this morning, surrounded by more than a hundred local film industry folks, House Minority Leader Mark Ferrandino ticked off movies made in Colorado]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:29:53 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Big Oil making big profits on declining production</title>
         <description><![CDATA[&#8203;It's official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies -- BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell -- reporting all-time-high p]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Boulder City Council.&#8203;Tuesday night, Boulder City Council reduced fines and approved no jail time for first and second convictions on sixty municipal offenses -- an effort to prevent a flood of ]]></description>
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