Cripple Creek News

Cripple Creek's casinos are betting on a much-needed economic boost from new games, higher betting limits and extended operating hours.

Black Hawk's Isle of Capri casino opens its craps table on the first day of higher- stakes gambling.

Thousands of drivers will take to the roads this Fourth of July weekend for festivities across the state, and Colorado law enforcement agencies are firing up plans for increased DUI patrols and sobriety checkpoints to help keep motorists safe from impaired drivers.

CENTRAL CITY, Colo. - It was the ultimate multimillion-dollar bet. Casinos in Colorado's three mountain gambling towns were part of a roughly $7 million campaign to persuade state voters to let them have more games, operating hours and betting limits.

With a shower of confetti, champagne toasts and tumbling dice, a new era of gambling began at 12:01 this morning in Cripple Creek.

NEW GAMBLING GUIDE BLACK HAWK - Gambling in Colorado has changed. At midnight on Wednesday, the stakes rose for gamblers.

Colorado casinos are getting ready to start play with more games and higher betting limits.

The ball comes to a stop on the roulette wheel at The Gilpin Casino in Black Hawk.

Police are investigating an 11-year-old boy's report that he was abducted from his home in the middle of the day Thursday.

Blasting operations by the Cripple Creek & Victor Mining Company will close State Highway 67 between Victor and Cripple Creek tomorrow .

Police Cpl. Dave Trump is the law in this town. Trump, a 50-year-old former roofer, is the last man standing in an otherwise revolving cast of police officers and chiefs.

The former Acacia Hotel on Platte Avenue now provides affordable housing for senior citizens.

Motorists driving Highway 24 near Falcon can expect short delays Thursday as the highway is repaved.

26 at the Butte Theater, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. More info at ButteOperaHouse.com . Godspell is a 1970 musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak .

The new Glenwood Vaudeville Revue is a weekly pub-style dinner theatre taking place at the Masonic Lodge in Glenwood Springs.

Making a quick buck in Manitou Springs could get easier - at least a little - if a proposed city ordinance goes through.

Treasures that graced Pearl DeVere's house in Cripple Creek's red light district in the 1890s made it the most elegant dwelling on Meyers Avenue.

He was on his way home from work in Cripple Creek when he reportedly rolled his car three or four times April 25 on CR 11, according to US Bank teller Christina Dodge, who works with his wife, Meghan.

A plan to add gambling-town residents to the board that oversees legalized gaming in Colorado is now officially dead.

Phantom Canyon Road will close to all through traffic Monday to allow for road stabilization work.