Author: Colleen Slevin
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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…
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Records: Ebel threatened to kill a guard while in prison
DENVER — The man suspected in the death of Colorado’s prisons chief threatened to kill a guard while he was in prison, the beginning of a long history of misconduct behind bars, according to his prison record released to The Associated Press on Thursday after an open records request. Within nine months of entering prison…
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CSU and Bronx Zoo breed Yellowstone bison
DENVER — A purebred Yellowstone bison is growing up at the Bronx Zoo after scientists were able to successfully implant a genetically pure embryo into a commercial bison. The zoo and Colorado State University announced Thursday that the surrogate bison gave birth to a healthy male calf at the zoo on June 20. In October…
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CSU and Bronx Zoo breed Yellowstone bison
DENVER — A purebred Yellowstone bison is growing up at the Bronx Zoo after scientists were able to successfully implant a genetically pure embryo into a commercial bison. The zoo and Colorado State University announced Thursday that the surrogate bison gave birth to a healthy male calf at the zoo on June 20. In October…
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Careful black bear raids Colorado chocolate shop
A bear in a candy store is nothing like a bull in a china shop. At least not this one. A black bear went in and out of a Colorado candy store multiple times early one July morning, but he used the front door and didn’t break a thing. The bear did, however, steal some…
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No medical bills for some Colo. shooting victims
DENVER — Some of the victims fighting for their lives after being wounded in the movie-theater shooting rampage may face another challenge when they get out of the hospital: enormous medical bills without the benefit of health insurance. Members of the public, along with Warner Bros., the studio that released the Batman movie “The Dark…
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Woman who escaped theater shooting giving birth
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — It was a big week for Katie and Caleb Medley. Caleb, a 23-year-old aspiring comic, made it to the second round of a comedy contest at a Denver club. Katie, 21, was scheduled…
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Woman who escaped theater shooting giving birth
DENVER — It was a big week for Katie and Caleb Medley. Caleb, a 23-year-old aspiring comic, made it to the second round of a comedy contest at a Denver club. Katie, 21, was scheduled to deliver their first baby, a boy already named Hugo, on Monday. So they set up their last date before…
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MediaNews co-founder Richard Scudder dead at 99
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — Richard B. Scudder, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation’s second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died Wednesday at his home in…
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MediaNews co-founder Richard Scudder dead at 99
DENVER — Richard B. Scudder, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation’s second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died Wednesday at his home in New Jersey. He was 99. William Dean Singleton, the other founder of Denver-based MediaNews and Scudder’s longtime friend, confirmed the…