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UPDATED: Gun in Colo. death matches Texas shootout weapon
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Nearly a week after the chief of Colorado’s prisons was fatally shot at his front door, investigators have matched the gun in his slaying to... Read more »
Bars test limits of legal-marijuana laws
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — John Connelly leaned forward on his barstool, set his lips against a clear glass pipe and inhaled a white cloud of marijuana vapor. A handful of... Read more »
Okla. teens killed in Texas home invasion
DALLAS (AP) — Two heavily armed teenage friends from Oklahoma drove hundreds of miles in a stolen pickup to a small town near Dallas where they were fatally shot during... Read more »
Texas Panhandle teen killed by discus
HEREFORD, Texas (AP) — Funeral is scheduled today in Hereford for a Panhandle high school freshman athlete who died nine days after a flying discus hit him in the hip.... Read more »
Colo. civil unions signed into law today
DENVER (AP) — Civil unions for gay couples in Colorado will be signed into law today, less than a year after the proposal was blocked in the House by Republicans... Read more »
El Paso Zoo features artwork by animals
EL PASO (AP) — A West Texas zoo has taken an artistic turn using the animals. The El Paso Zoo through Sunday will feature an exhibit of paintings made by... Read more »
UPDATED: Officials react to Colo. corrections chief’s slaying
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper today ordered flags lowered to half-staff in memory of state Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, who was gunned down at his home in Monument, Colo.,... Read more »
7 Marines killed in Nevada depot accident
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven Marines from a North Carolina unit were killed and several injured in a training accident at the Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada, the Marine Corps... Read more »
5 Western state AGs meet in Mexico City
DENVER (AP) — Attorneys general from five Western states are meeting with Mexico’s new attorney general. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says his counterparts from California, Idaho, Nevada, and New... Read more »
Tightrope walk planned near Grand Canyon
CAMERON, Ariz. (AP) — Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda has planned his highest tightrope walk yet, and he says he’ll do it without a harness. The 34-year-old announced Monday that he’ll... Read more »
Colo. gun restrictions bring political risk
DENVER (AP) — Firearms play an outsized role in the hearts of Coloradans. It’s a frontier state that adopted gunslingers Buffalo Bill and Doc Holliday as native sons, where treasured... Read more »
Activists protest Phoenix dad’s deportation
PHOENIX (AP) — Activists are fighting the potential deportation of a Phoenix father who was recently released from detention because of federal budget cuts. The Arizona Dream Act Coalition is... Read more »
