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Colorado is receiving about $2.1 million in stimulus money over the next few years for work that could help expand high-speed Internet access in the state.

There's a new battle over medical marijuana in Colorado. The city of Centennial is being sued by medical marijuana patients after the city closed a marijuana dispensary last month.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2009. There are 32 days left in the year.

Colorado is considering reducing drug sentences as part of an effort to reduce prison costs, reports the Colorado Springs Gazette : Colorado prisons are overflowing with inmates, at a cost of nearly $700 million a year to taxpayers, in part due to mandatory sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, a panel of state lawmakers and sentence reform ...

As Black Friday approaches and holiday lists start moving from top drawers to wallet pockets, CoPIRG's Trouble in Toyland hazardous-gift list can help make for a bright toy decision instead of a bad one.

Laws carrying out voter-approved legalization of marijuana in the mountain resort of Breckenridge are nearly complete.

It may be a few days late but there is a very special Thanksgiving celebration going on tonight in Longmont.

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About 19 percent of all Colorado home-mortgage borrowers are in negative equity or "upside-down," meaning that the borrower owes more on the mortgage than the home is worth, according to a national report Tuesday from First American CoreLogic .

Did I ever tell you all about the time I went to Norway? It was in 2006 for MotherProof.com; I went there to check out a cool new product called the AutoSock, a replacement for tire chains.

Authorities say a man in Colorado apparently tried to steal an ATM by hauling it away with a truck.

The word of the day at R.K. Mechanical, the family-owned, non-union manufacturing company in Stapleton that was the backdrop for Monday's Republican round-up, was "unity." "The Republican party is very strong; we feel very united," said GOP gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis, who is the prime beneficiary of the party's new found unity.

All they wanted was a tan. Instead, hundreds of Coloradans say they got tricked into signing ironclad contracts.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.

It wasn't fresh mountain snow but toilet paper that blanketed the front lawn of the Colorado governor's mansion Thanksgiving morning.

A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified, and a UFO chaser thinks extraterrestrials are involved.

November 23, 2009 PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.... It's always encouraging when a lawmaker in a precarious position has his/her priorities straight .

Seven Colorado state parks will use $647,400 in federal stimulus money to treat and remove trees affected by bark beetles.

In a Nov. 24 story about Credit Suisse Securities LLC buying back auction rate securities from investors, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, reported erroneously how much the company was buying back.

A woman in Colorado said she has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Last week, she lost a very special ring and thought she would never see it again.

Colorado stands to gain up to $500 million in stimulus money because of education reforms recently implemented in the state.

Mining sites in Colorado will receive $42 million for environmental cleanup projects as part of the bankruptcy organization plan for copper mining company Asarco LLC.

Most kids in Colorado who could be getting free breakfasts and summer lunches aren't getting the meals, and state officials are working to change that.

Thirty-two Colorado health-care providers who serve the uninsured are receiving $16,920,000 from a tobacco-tax surcharge, the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced Tuesday.

A man and woman killed in a police shootout after a bank robbery were described as helpful and pleasant by a neighbor.

A Colorado Springs doctor who was caught selling prescription drugs to undercover officers has been sentenced in a separate case, in which he was accused of charging $300 to fill out paperwork so someone could get a medical marijuana registry card.

Republican Party leaders are unveiling an election agenda that's expected to serve as the platform for members of the party seeking office next year.

A celebrity couple will join hundreds of babies Wednesday to urge Congress to overhaul America's toxic chemical policy.

Governor Bill Ritter's Dept. of Health Care Policy and Financing is refusing Rep.

A Colorado State trooper has been injured in a single vehicle accident near Monte Vista in southern Colorado.

Betcha it pained him, then, to issue an opinion that further legitimized the medical-marijuana industry.

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CONTACT Mark Salley Director, Office of Communications Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment 303-692-2013 DENVER - The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment today released its final report regarding the Salmonella outbreak that struck Alamosa in 2008.

Thousands are expected at a Longmont farm Saturday to dig for leftover crops. Miller Farms plans to open its gates for a second consecutive year of gleaning, an ancient practice of foraging fields for unharvested crops.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.

How's this for a cliffhanger scenario on election night? The popular vote for president is close across the country, the Electoral College tally is neck-and-neck, and all eyes turn to Colorado--where nobody can say for sure how many of the state's nine electoral votes should go to Sen.

A man who brought attention to homeless veterans in Colorado Springs has pleaded not guilty to charges of lying about being a decorated veteran.

Next year should mark a sweeping set of political comebacks for Colorado Republicans, a trio of GOP office-seekers assured Longmont party members Thursday.

Thata TMs a slight decline from September, when the rate was at 7 percent. It was 7.3 percent in August.

Gov. Bill Ritter has appointed attorney Barbara J. Kelley of Denver to be the new executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, effective Dec.

A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead.

The wave-overtopping simulator will be able to simulate levees made of soils in any region.

The number of new influenza cases in Colorado has dropped for the fourth consecutive week.

Colorado-based weather researchers say three hurricanes formed in the Atlantic this year, two fewer than they predicted before the season and one less than their August update called for.

America's next top model isthe dorky one. At least, that's how 18-year-old redhead and University of Colorado student Nicole Fox described herself after winning a $100,000 Cover Girl contract and six-page spread in Seventeen magazine as prize for conquering the 13th cycle of "America's Top Model." "I'm a dork and I'm America's Next Top Model!" the ...

For the second consecutive year, Colorado received a "D" on the Premature Birth Report Card issued by the March of Dimes.

COLORADO SPRINGS Your federal tax dollars are being spent in parts of Colorado that don't even exist.

Health officials say animal waste was the likely reason for a salmonella outbreak that spread through a southern Colorado city's tap water supply last year.

Famed Colorado nature photographer John Fielder will present his latest book, Ranches of Colorado, at 6 p.m. on Nov.

After months of talks, Safeway has given a union representing Colorado grocery workers its last, best, final contract offer.

Colorado is gearing up to officially tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, a move lawmakers say amounts to legal recognition of a growing industry.

Colorado state Sen. Dan Gibbs has decided not to run for another term next year.

Authorities in Colorado say a homeowner who was selling his house returned to the property to find a 24-year-old squatter wearing only underwear.

A Colorado climate scientist says midwinter snowstorms could stay south of the state's ski areas this season because of an El Nino pattern.

Federal officials plan to spend $11.7 million for about 5,000 acres of private land in national monuments, forests and recreation areas in three Western states.

The goal of Colorado's Future is to build public trust and improve the processes of public policy decision making in a way that will build a better Colorado.

The Colorado Department of Transportation today closed the bridge that takes East 104th Avenue over the South Platte River after engineers discovered significant deterioration of concrete on key portions of the structure.

State health officials say Coloradans are recycling and keeping more of their trash out of landfills, though the economic downturn has weakened demand for recycled material.

Colorado officials say they haven't been contacted by the federal government regarding housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay in the state.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet raised about twice as much money as Democratic challenger Andrew Romanoff during the three weeks that the two candidates were competing for donations in September.

State Rep. Scott Tipton is getting into the race to represent Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.

Guardian stopped offering small-business health insurance in the state this year.

Overnight snow squalls have marked the arrival of a winter storm in Colorado. Bands of heavy snow that fell late Saturday blanketed parts of the Front Range in a very short span.

" Amid the upcoming holiday season, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and Secretary of State Bernie Buescher appealed to residents to consider charitable giving but also to give wisely.

Forecasters say a storm could leave behind 10 to 17 inches of snow above 11,000 feet in the Sawatch Mountains, including Independence Pass, by late Friday.

Former Colorado Senate President Tom Norton is set to become the next mayor of Greeley, barring a request for a recount by his opponent.

Colorado Republicans seem to be putting family values in the political back seat as they try to win races next year on a simple agenda of small government and fiscal conservatism.

Colorado lawmakers are taking aim at tax breaks to balance the state budget after a state Supreme Court ruling that says doing away with the cuts and credits may not require voter approval.

The Colorado parents accused of pulling a spectacular hoax by reporting their son was aboard a runaway balloon have pleaded guilty to charges that could bring some jail time and probation.

A cold front approaching from the west will be the first of two systems to impact Colorado Friday through the weekend.

After 11 years at the helm, Gary Severson is leaving his position as director of a regional governmental organization to pursue other opportunities.

ET has confirmed that the District Attorneya s Office of Larimer & Jackson Counties in Colorado have in fact filed charges against Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of the so-called "Balloon Boy." Richard has been charged with one count of attempting to influence a public servant, a class 4 felony, while his wife is charged with one count of ...

Colorado housing officials say the statewide apartment vacancy rate for the third quarter was 7.4 percent, up from 6.6 percent a year ago.

The crash occurred before 6 a.m. on Interstate 84 near Baker City. Oregon State Police Lt.

A national team will help the U.S. Forest Service manage the attack against the beetle infestation that has swept through about 2.5 million acres of forests in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.

Some military veterans are now teaching in public schools, and a Democratic senator from Colorado is visiting them to highlight the federal "Troops To Teachers" program.

The Colorado parents accused of the "balloon boy" hoax are to plead guilty, a local newspaper citing a statement from their lawyer said Thursday.

Colorado will receive a federal grant to promote clean-technology exports to China and Mexico.

When I last talked with former Congressman Tom Tancredo -- about marijuana , of all things, which he'd like to see legalized, even though he's never so much as attempted to inhale -- he was just back from an October Constitution Party event in Phoenix, where he'd been urged to run for president on the ticket of what had started in 1992 as the U.S.

The number of new flu cases in Colorado has dropped for the third straight week, although four more deaths have been blamed on the virus.

Police say they don't yet know if Vail murder suspect Richard "Rossi" Moreau was legally allowed to possess guns.

U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall are sponsoring a bill to declare about 61,000 acres in southwestern Colorado as federal wilderness and special management areas.

The four Republicans vying for a bid at the U.S. Senate spent Tuesday night's candidate forum thrashing Democrats for "out-of-control spending" and vowing to restore the Republican brand as fiscal conservatives.

Without health-care reform, Colorado businesses will face ever-higher costs over the next 10 years, a new study says.

A charitable foundation is donating $3 million to help keep the U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs.

State Sen. Josh Penry, considered a rising star in Colorado's Republican Party, plans to drop out of the gubernatorial race, a House colleague said Monday.

Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts students Tanya Chavez, left, age 12, and Irma Evangelista, 14, work in their humanities class Wednesday.

The U.S. Army says it has finished work containing a leak of mustard agent at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to create a new national cemetery in southern Colorado.

An industry group says Colorado's alcohol tax revenues have increased 6 percent since Sunday liquor sales took effect last year.

The Colorado Master GardenerSM program in Morgan/Logan counties is taking applications for the 2010 class being taught at the Morgan County Extension office at 914 E. Railroad Ave.

All but one member of Colorado's congressional delegation has voted along party lines on the health care reform bill that narrowly passed the U.S. House.

Sick Puppy doesn't like the flu. Roy Berreth A three year study on the canine influenza virus, or CIV, is being conducted in Colorado Springs.

Gunfire at a bar near the Colorado ski resort town of Vail has killed one and injured two, and police said a man was quickly arrested in connection with the shooting.

Federal prosecutors say statements from a Washington man accused of threatening a Colorado abortion doctor's family should be admitted in court.

Nine more flu-related deaths have been reported in Colorado, bringing the total number of deaths this season to 34.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man in connection with two bank robberies in Grand Junction, Colo.

Colorado is about to become the first state to lower its minimum wage. On Jan. 1, the wage will be reduced by 3 cents an hour to the federal minimum of $7.25. The reduction will take place because the recession has driven down the cost of living.

Coloradans reacted with shock and grief after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, but none of the state's major military installations said they were changing their security precautions.

The 2010 MISS COLORADO USAA and MISS COLORADO TEEN USAA Pageants took place Sunday evening at the Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley, Colorado.

Five men and four women alleged to be in an identity theft and forgery ring operating in Jefferson County have been indicted by a grand jury for racketeering under Colorado's Organized Crime Control Act.

MORE ON 9NEWS @ 4 P.M. KUSA -The former executive director of the Colorado Republican Party authorized the downloading of a massive e-mail list from the Republican National Committee in direct violation of a contract signed between the two entities.

Keystone Resort is open for the season. Keystone says a snowstorm that moved through Colorado last week helped it open Thursday, a day earlier than planned.

Colorado's Republican gubernatorial candidates say Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's economic policies are hurting Colorado workers.

Authorities say a knife-wielding man briefly held two state employees hostage at a northern Colorado weigh station after being told to park his truck overnight.

A state audit estimates that as many as 225,000 people are driving illegally in Colorado and that unlicensed drivers were involved in nearly one-fourth of all fatal crashes last year.

So, there was an election yesterday. What happened in Colorado? Denver voters rejected an initiative proposing mandatory car impoundment for driver's without licenses.

About 100,500 new cases of cancer are caused by obesity every year, according to the most comprehensive attempt ever to estimate the cancers attributed to extra weight.

It seemed like a great idea - doing bypass surgery while the heart is still beating, sparing patients the complications that can come from going on a heart-lung machine.

Ahh, the perils of television news graphics libraries. On the Today Show on NBC Tuesday morning, during a story about the congressional race in New York's 23rd District between Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens , the graphic on the screen showed a photo of former Colorado Governor and Republican Bill Owens.

The Colorado man killed when a Coast Guard plane and Marine Corps helicopter collided last week off the southern California coast was a graduate of the University of Colorado.

Gov. Bill Ritter named Windsor as one of three locations in Colorado that will call home to a National Guard armory and readiness center on 25 acres of land.

Breckenridge made pot legal, Denver rejected a get-tough proposal on unlicensed drivers, and tax hikes were turned back around the state Tuesday in municipal elections that appeared to show a public in an anti-government mood.

Authorities in Pueblo say they're investigating whether a man suspected of raping 11 women in New Mexico and Texas may be responsible for unsolved assaults in Colorado.

A murdered young woman buried as Jane Doe in Colorado 55 years ago. An Arizona family puzzled and saddened as Dorothy Gay Howard's disappearance stretched into decades.

Health officials say five more people have died from the flu in Colorado but the virus appears to be easing up in the Denver-Boulder area.

Colorado health officials are considering eliminating a provision that allows a medical marijuana primary caregiver to be defined as someone who simply supplies the drug.

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Three Coloradans have won national-level U.S. Forest Service awards for wilderness stewardship.

GREELEY, Colorado - The economic slowdown has prompted Danish wind-turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems to slow its U.S. hiring and building, including in Colorado.

Increased diversions from the Fraser River, in Grand County, could put the entire Upper Colorado ecosystem at risk, a coalition of environmental groups warned Friday.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is asking state legislators for a 6 percent increase in transportation funding.

Emergency responders from across the nation are training in southern Colorado for terrorist attacks, natural disasters and accidents on railroads, highways and waterways.

Colorado voters still have another day to turn in mail-in ballots for this fall's election.

Rick Welle's tire shredder whines under a bright sun, chipping slowly away at mounds of 80,000 discarded tires tucked among the sandy hills along Santa Fe Drive.

An abandoned car sits alongside Colorado Highway 93 as a winter storm continues to deposit snow throughout the state on Wednesday, Oct.

Police say a masked assailant broke into a Nederland woman's home on Halloween night and slashed her with a knife.

Two years after the federal government accused Joe D. Kinlaw and Charles Reed Cagle of participating in a $177 million oil and gas investment fraud, they picked up their Dallas operation and moved it to Colorado Springs.

A Colorado ranch owner plans to use a federal grant and loan to build a "micro-hydroelectric" plant and sell the power back to a utility.

A determined Colorado man found his missing cell phone at a trash dump after dialing the number and listening for the ring.