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  • Wildfire Bills Get Governor’s Signature

    CORTEZ, Colo. (AP) – Wildfire prevention measures passed after Colorado’s tragic wildfire season last year have been signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper. The governor signed the bills at Mesa Verde National Park near Cortez. One of the bills puts new curbs on prescribed burns on state forest land. The safeguards include a new requirement that people tend the fire as long as ...

  • Hickenlooper’s Death Penalty Decision Has Invigorated Republicans

    DENVER (CBS4) – Gov. John Hickenlooper’s decision this week to issue a temporary reprieve of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap’s death penalty sentence has reinvigorated the Republican Party. Once thought unbeatable, Republicans now see Hickenlooper as vulnerable, and they’re plotting out what they hope will be a GOP win in the 2014 governor’s race. Tom Tancredo ...

  • Surveillance Video Shows Brash Coin Store Burglars Before Bust

    LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – Four suspects are now in custody after being caught at one of the stores they were burglarizing overnight. The crimes happened at two coin collectibles stores in the southwestern part of the Denver metro area and possibly other stores have been hit recently. The suspects were arrested at A World of Coins near Wadsworth and Bowles. The other crime happened at All ...

  • Feds Keep Preble’s Mouse On Threatened List

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it would continue to protect as a threatened species a mouse that lives along streams in Colorado and eastern Wyoming, saying human development continues to threaten the animal’s riparian habitat. The state of Wyoming and the group Coloradoans for Water Conservation have petitioned since 2003 to remove the ...

  • DOC buys travel for official on leave

    DENVER - After a series of CALL7 investigations exposing catastrophic failures in the Department of Corrections parole division, the head of parole was placed on administrative leave Wednesday while an internal audit is conducted.Yet even as Tim Hand was being shown the door, DOC was booking him a plane ticket to an out-of-state national parole commission meeting.CALL7 Investigator Theresa ...


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Movie Review

The Big Hit

There are scenes in "The Big Hit" that are so awful, they simply defy description. The movie is infected with the same kind of blunderheaded idiocy and misplaced confidence that made "Last Action Hero" (1993) such a chore to sit through. Presumably, "The Big Hit" is an action-comedy, a difficult but not impossible genre to pull off. Movies of this sort require a fine balance and careful tone, and ... ...

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  • Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate

    DENVER (AP) -- In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after ...

  • Secretary Of State Gessler Repays Colorado For Trip To RNC

    DENVER (AP) – Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has picked up the tab for a trip he took to the Republican National Convention last year that he initially billed to taxpayers. By sending a check for $1,278 to the state treasury on Wednesday, it appeared Gessler was trying to close the book on the politically damaging episode as he mulls a run for governor. Gessler, a Republican, ...

  • No charges in Highlands Ranch shooting

    HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has determined no crime was committed when a Highlands Ranch man was accidentally shot with a gun belonging to a Boulder police officer earlier this month.The incident happened in the driveway of a home in the 400 block of Spring Grove Avenue on May 3 as three friends were working on a car. One of the friends owned the home where ...

  • Dave Noren missing since May 19

    LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Lakewood Police are asking for help finding David "Dave" Noren, who was last seen on May 19.The 49-year-old has no known medical conditions, prompting Lakewood police to call his disappearance "very unusual."Police say Noren is known to frequent the Pub on Colfax.Anyone who knows where to find Noren, or who knows information that would help to find him, is ...

  • Noodles Co. files for proposed IPO

    BROOMFIELD, Colo. - Noodles & Co. has made a regulatory filing for a proposed initial public offering of Class A common stock.The Broomfield-based fast-casual chain said Thursday that the size and price range of the offering haven't been determined yet. Its stock would trade under the proposed Nasdaq symbol NDLS.Noodles launched in 1995. It says its revenues have grown from $170 million ...

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