Author: Colleen Slevin
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2 teens under arrest after threat against Denver-area school
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — Two 16-year-old girls were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to harm students and staff members at their suburban Denver high school, a plot that was foiled after someone texted a tip line, authorities…
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Richards mourns with, rallies Planned Parenthood supporters
ENGLEWOOD – The national head of Planned Parenthood both mourned with and rallied supporters on Saturday before meeting with workers credited for saving lives in last week’s shooting at a clinic in Colorado Springs. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, read the names of the three people killed in the Nov.…
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Police: Fugitive who died in Colorado after arrest took cyanide pill
DENVER — Registered sex offender Robert Lindsay, a fugitive on the run from Maryland for two years, slipped out of a Denver-area motorcycle painting shop where he worked when police arrived to arrest him in July. He didn’t get far before he encountered officers working at a road construction project. He held his keys in…
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More Colorado students join police protests
DENVER — More Colorado students left class on Friday to protest recent decisions not to prosecute police officers in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City in the deaths of two unarmed black men. About 400 students from several Aurora high school and middle schools converged on the Denver suburb’s municipal center. Authorities temporarily locked down…
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Suburban Denver school board won’t back off history class review, more protests planned
GOLDEN — A suburban Denver school board refused to back off plans to review U.S. history courses for what some see as anti-American content, despite waves of protest from students and parents who accused the new conservative majority of trying to indoctrinate children politically. A turbulent school board meeting drew hundreds Thursday evening, with crowds…
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Q&A: What are students in Colorado protesting?
DENVER — A fight in Colorado over how United States’ history is taught has pitted the new conservative majority on a suburban Denver school board against students and teachers who accuse the board of censorship. The students and teachers are protesting possible changes to the new Advanced Placement history course. Hundreds have turned out to…
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Denver-area students walk out of school in protest
ARVADA — Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay. The youth protest in the…
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Denver marijuana businesses raided ahead of legal sales
DENVER — Sending a strong message to Colorado’s marijuana industry just weeks before recreational sales begin, federal agents raided a handful of marijuana dispensaries and growing sites. Agents ripped pot plants from specialized warehouses and piled them on roadsides and parking lots, with the only explanation that the businesses had violated guidelines issued last summer…
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Feds: Colorado miners entered area where blast occurred
DENVER — Two Colorado miners who died of carbon monoxide poisoning apparently entered an area of the mine where an explosive had been previously detonated, federal investigators said Monday. Nick Cappanno, 34, of Montrose and Rick Williams, 59, of Durango were killed at the start of their shift Sunday morning at the Revenue-Virginius mine near…
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Avalanche that killed 5 difficult to predict
DENVER — The kind of avalanche that killed five people in Colorado over the weekend is among the most difficult to predict and trigger, and it’s dangerous because of the amount of snow normally involved. Saturday’s slide in near Loveland Pass is called a deep persistent slab avalanche, and it was the kind of avalanche…