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  • Raptors eyeing Nuggets GM Ujiri for top exec job

    Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri, formerly the assistant GM of the Raptors, won the NBA’s 2012-13 Executive of the Year Award.(Garrett Ellwood/Getty Images) The Toronto Raptors are pursuing Denver Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri, the 2012-13 NBA Executive of the Year, in hopes of making him their top basketball ...

  • Udall Seeks Feedback On Proposed National Monument

    DENVER (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public’s help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central ...

  • Fern Lake Fire In RMNP Still Slumbers

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) -- After seven months, and many feet of snow in Rocky Mountain National Park, wildland firefighters still cannot say the Fern Lake fire is out. Pungent odors of unseen embers were still in the air during a May 13 hike into Fern Lake’s heart, underlining their hesitancy. ';It’s the question we get all the time,'; said Mike ...

  • Ute Farm Ranch Wins $92000 USDA Grant

    TOWAOC, Colo. (AP) -- The bright green alfalfa fields appear like a surreal oasis tucked into the rolling hills of desert shrubbery that extend south as far as the eye can see. Vaughn Cook climbs aboard a sprayer at the Ute Farm and Ranch. The brown field behind would normally be green with a new crop of corn, but because of the drought, will sit idle with no irrigation this year. Here, 12 ...

  • 3-vehicle crash in Lakewood

    LAKEWOOD, Colo. - A three vehicle crash in Lakewood Saturday injured at least three people, one of them seriously.The crash happened around 11 a.m. at the intersection of W. Colfax Avenue and Pierce Street. One of the vehicles ended up on its side in the intersection.Police said seven people were in the vehicles. Three of those were transported to a local hospital for treatment and one of the ...


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A Beautiful Mind [DVD]

A Beautiful Mind [DVD]

There is an inherent danger in romanticizing the link between genius and insanity. It is a hard impulse to deny, as both geniuses and the insane are defined primarily in how they differ from ordinary people. Both are somehow removed from the everyday in extraordinary/terrible ways, ... ...

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  • Rockies Trade Reid Brignac To Yankees

    Reid Brignac #16 of the Colorado Rockies at bat during the MLB game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on April 27, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty ...

  • Inside The Effort To Open Independence Pass

    INDEPENDENCE PASS, Colo. (AP) – Like most drivers on Independence Pass, Don Poole watches his speed and where he is on the treacherous road. Poole had extra reason to be cautious on May 13, as there was a 4- to 5-foot wall of snow in front of him on the stretch of road 2 miles beneath the summit. Poole, the Colorado Department of Transportation’s maintenance patrol supervisor for ...

  • Colorado’s Newest State Park Dedicated Open To Public

    PINE, Colo. (CBS4) – Colorado’s newest state park is open to the public. Staunton State Park is located about six miles west of Conifer and features about 3,800 acres of grasslands, granite cliffs and streams. The park is named in honor of Frances Staunton, who donated the mountain ranch property to the state upon her death in 1989. The Staunton ranch is at the center of the new ...

  • War vet gets 21 years in biker shooting

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An Iraq War veteran who was convicted of manslaughter in a motorcycle club shooting has been sentenced to 21 years in prison.Sgt. Christopher Mountjoy, assigned to the Army's Fort Carson, was sentenced Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed man outside the Sin City Disciples motorcycle club in Colorado Springs in 2012.The Colorado Springs Gazette reports ...

  • Nuggets-Warriors Game 6 Gameday

    Posted May 3, 2013 05:40 OAKLAND, Calif. - Handed the toughest early season schedule imaginable, the Denver Nuggets banded together and persevered. After losing their best outside shooter to a knee injury in the first week of April, they went on to set a team NBA record with 57 victories and secured the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. Conceding defeat wasn't part of Denver's ...

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