| February 26, 2009 | - The Rocky Mountain News ceased publication.
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Rocky Mountain News
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| September 27, 2008 | - A Colorado teenager was arrested for attempting to kill his mother, with plans to use her money to buy breast implants for his girlfriend.
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CNN
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| July 25, 2008 | - Edward “Eddie” Davidson, a 35-year-old “spam king” convicted of tax evasion and fraud, escaped from a minimum-security prison in Bennett, Colorado, and killed his wife, his three-year-old daughter, and himself in the SUV they had used in the escape. Davidson's 16-year-old daughter escaped from the vehicle with a neck wound, and a seven-month-old boy was found, unharmed in a car seat, with the victims.
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Scientific American
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| June 12, 2008 | - Jacob Bertrand, an employee at a home-improvement store in Colorado, was arrested for shooting a coworker twenty times in the chest and nose with a nail gun, throwing a garbage can at him, and attempting to set him on fire by dousing him in lacquer thinner.
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MyFOXColorado.com
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| May 7, 2008 | - Two women in Denver, Colorado, were found guilty of trespassing after they refused to leave the office of a county clerk who denied them a marriage license. “They held hands as long as they could,” said Rev. Michael Morran, who was there to conduct the ceremony, “until the officers put their hands in handcuffs and led them away.”
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Rocky Mountain News
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| December 12, 2007 | - In Colorado Springs, 24-year-old Matthew Murray killed four Christians, including two teenaged sisters, and injured five others before Jeanne Assam, a volunteer security guard at New Life Church, shot him. “It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God,” said Assam. “God made me strong.” During his 12-hour killing spree, Murray paused to post a plagiarized screed to an Internet forum, copying almost verbatim the note left by one of the Columbine High School killers.
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ABC News
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Washington Post
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| September 21, 2007 | -
Denver police were searching for a three-year-old girl abandoned by her mother and mother's boyfriend. “Walk out into your back yard,” said police. “Look through your Dumpsters, help us find this little girl. She's probably in a black plastic bag or white plastic bag.”
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The Denver Channel
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| August 30, 2007 | - Another elementary school—this one in Colorado Springs, Colorado—banned tag.
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My Way News
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| December 11, 2006 | - Paul Barnes, a senior pastor at a 2,100-member evangelical megachurch in Colorado, stepped down after admitting to sexual relations with men.
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Denver Post
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| November 1, 2006 | - In Aurora, Colorado, chubby girls robbed younger children of their trick-or-treating
candy.
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ABC 7 Denver
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| October 19, 2006 | - A Denver woman was ruled criminally insane for stabbing her 21-month-old granddaughter 62 times with a butcher knife after she received “spiritual messages from the geese flying overhead.”
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Denver Post
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| May 3, 2006 | - Scientists in Colorado said that the ozone layer was recovering.
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Reuters
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| April 28, 2006 | - In Denver, Colorado, a 17-year-old boy on his first bucking bronco ride was killed when the horse rolled on top of him. "It was," said his mother, "his first and last ride."
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SFGate.com
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| April 1, 2006 | - In Colorado a school banned flag-waving.
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ABC News
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| March 19, 2006 | - Tresa Waggoner, an elementary school music teacher in Bennett, Colorado, was suspended from her job after local parents complained that she was a lesbian devil worshiper; the parents drew this conclusion after learning that Waggoner showed her classes a videotape of the opera Faust performed with sock puppets.
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The Los Angeles Times
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
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U.S. Department of Defense
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| August 10, 2005 | - An Air Force colonel in Denver, Colorado, was in trouble for vandalizing cars that sported pro-Bush bumper stickers.
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AP
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| August 4, 2005 | - Prairie dogs in Colorado were found to have the plague.
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9News.com
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| April 29, 2005 | - A middle school in Boulder, Colorado, banned hugging, suggesting that students high-five instead.
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9News.com
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| April 28, 2005 | - A Colorado high school student decided to test Army recruitment policies by telling a recruiter that he had dropped out of high school and was addicted to marijuana. The recruiter told the student how to get a fake diploma over the Internet and instructed him to take a detoxification formula so that he could pass the Army's drug test.
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CBS 4 Colorado
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| June 6, 2004 | - In Colorado, a man in an armored bulldozer went berserk and destroyed several buildings and then killed himself.
| Source: Associated Press
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| May 18, 2004 | -
Colorado outlawed lawsuits against fast-food companies by fat people.
| Source: New York Times
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