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Update by Michael Roberts: As Alan Prendergast reported last week, a Colorado Springs robber attempted a stick-up with something even more primitive than a stick -- namely, a rock. Now, the CSPD has identified the suspect in the crime as 51-year-old Dwight Davis, who's posed for department cameras in the past; see his mug shot below.

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The story of eight-year-old Sean King, who made news for delivering a Martin Luther King speech while wearing blackface, is hardly the first time a local kid found himself in the spotlight for strange reasons.

We've collected five memorable moments from recent years. Count them down below.

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Earlier this week, when we published our list of the ten most notable people to die in Colorado, we asked you to let us know if we'd forgotten anyone -- and thank goodness you did, because we made a number of hefty oversights. We're highlighting the ones most frequently mentioned in this sequel list, which also includes a slew of other fascinating personalities who shuffled off this mortal coil right here. Count them down below.

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Earlier, we reported about Representative Mike Coffman's excuse for a comment he made suggesting that Barack Obama may not have been born in the U.S.: "I misspoke." By making this claim, Coffman is in good company: It's become a favorite of politicians who say something dumb or inaccurate but want to soften the blow. Here's a top ten countdown of other public figures who've trotted it out.

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Denver International Airport is the subject of myriad conspiracy theories, as the recent fears about a Russian military takeover made clear. But the truth at DIA is sometimes stranger than fiction. We ran down a list of crazy airport stories in Off Limits this week. Of course, they're not flattering, so DIA spokeswoman Jenny Schiavone provided three "nice" airport tales. Count them down below.

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As we noted in a recent post about a new Metro State policy, breastfeeding is suddenly a hot topic thanks to a Time magazine story about attachment parenting featuring a hot mama with a toddler craning up to dock with her nipple. This prompted our own Jef Otte to rip attachment parenting in a Village Voice post that declared "Babies are Assholes." His views frosted 2012 Westword MasterMind and attachment parent Andrew Orvedahl, prompting a mano-a-mano smackdown on our Show and Tell blog. Read all about it in "The great debate: Andrew Orvedahl and Jef Otte settle their parenting differences like men."

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Despite a feverish comeback try, the Nuggets fell to the Lakers 96-87 on Saturday, ending Denver's dreams of an improbable playoffs upset. Immediately afterward, the wits at the NBA Memes Facebook page weighed in, needling the Lakers even in victory (they'll be losing in the second round to OKC -- count on it) and branding Nug Javale McGee a moron for one last time this season. Check out their parting shots below.

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What is it about Westword news boxes that make people want to do strange things to and with them? Dunno -- but in the last year or so, several readers have shared wacky photos of them staging their own version of Boxing Day.

Here's the first one, taken outside Bushwacker's Saloon last summer and published on July 12, 2011.

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Love is strange -- a fact proven each and every day on Craigslist.

We recently shared our list of the ten most memorable Denver Missed Connections on the site. But here's a different kind of connection -- one involving silicone. Yep: In a recently posted ad, a local man says he's selling his 1994 Goldwing motorcycle to pay for his wife to get a boob job.

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Even under the best of circumstances, the act of robbing a convenience store for the sake of a handful of singles in ready cash has to be one of the dumbest crimes imaginable, just on a simple risk-to-benefit scale. But for absolute desperation, nothing beats jacking a 7-Eleven at three in the morning, armed with one mean-looking rock -- the latest development in what's shaping up to be a stone-age crime spree in Colorado Springs.

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