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  • Conservatives rally outside Denver IRS

    DENVER - Tea party activists rallied outside the IRS office in Denver to protest IRS scrutiny of conservative groups.About 50 people held signs and listened to speakers at Tuesday's event. Dozens of others dropped by for a few minutes to show support, and some drivers passing by the downtown building honked their horns in solidarity.Protesters took turns speaking with a megaphone, ...

  • School evacuated over item in chem lab

    CONIFER, Colo. - West Jefferson Middle School in Conifer was evacuated Tuesday afternoon over an unidentified compound found in the chemistry lab. The Sheriff's Office originally described it as an "unstable item."Melissa Reeves, a spokeswoman for the school district, said that during a routine inspection of the science lab, an unlabeled bottle of a liquid was found. Following ...

  • Target to hire 200 for new Denver store

    "." Target Corp. will begin hiring 200 new employees for its new Tamarac Square store with a three-day job fair that starts Thursday, the company said Tuesday. The 135,000-square foot store, at the corner of East Hampden Avenue and South Tamarac Drive, is scheduled to open in July. Its one of 11 stores the Minneapolis-based company (NYSE: TGT) is opening nationwide in 2013. It will be ...

  • Denver Nuggets Kenneth Faried Wins Citizenship Award

    Juan Ocampo/NBAE/Getty Images NEW YORK, May 1, 2013 - Kenneth Faried of the Denver Nuggets has been voted the 2012-13 winner of the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, named after the second commissioner of the NBA and presented annually by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to the player, coach or trainer who shows outstanding service and dedication to the community. Faried, a ...

  • Navigating change MA are topics at Denver Business Journals CFO Forum

    The Denver Business Journals May 21 CFO Forum today focuses on two timely trends that chief financial officers deal with adapting to the ever-changing corporate world and helping their companies do deals such as mergers and acquisitions. The forum at the Marriott Hotel Denver City Center hotel includes two panel discussions: Navigating a changing corporate landscape and Denver Deals Behind the ...


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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Blu-Ray]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Blu-Ray]

While the title would seem to suggest a story of relative modesty, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is anything but. Running nearly three hours in length and spanning some 80 years of American history, from World War I to Hurricane Katrina, ... ...

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  • ACLU seeks state execution plans

    AURORA, Colo. - The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado wants to force the Department of Corrections to reveal exactly how they plan to put Nathan Dunlap to death in August.Dunlap was a 19-year-old former Chuck E. Cheese employee when he walked into the restaurant in Aurora in 1993 at closing time and shot five people in the head and then stole $1,500 from a safe.Three teenagers and a ...

  • Oklahoma City Thunder Kevin Durant Pledge $1 Million For Tornado Relief

    for tornado relief , matching a $1 million pledge by star player Kevin Durant. The Thunder announced Tuesday that they’ll give $1 million to the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other disaster relief organizations helping after Monday’s disaster in suburban Oklahoma City. Earlier in the day, Durant pledged $1 million to the Red Cross from his Durant Family Foundation ...

  • Former Rhode Island Senate Candidate Announces Plan To Run For Colorado Governor

    FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) – Steve Laffey, a onetime Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Rhode Island, announced Tuesday he’s running for governor of Colorado. Laffey is a former investment banker and mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island’s third-largest city. In 2006, he took on incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island’s Republican Senate primary with the backing of ...

  • Weld County DA Buck ‘I Am In Remission’

    GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) - The district attorney in Weld County says he’s cancer free after going through chemotherapy to treat lymphoma. Ken Buck, a Republican who has been DA since 2004 and who recently ran for U.S. Senate, shared the following good news on his Facebook page late Monday ...

  • Woman Plans Not Guilty Plea In Ebel Gun Purchase

    CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- A woman accused of buying the gun used to kill Colorado’s prisons chief plans to plead not guilty, her lawyer said Monday. Stevie Marie Ann Vigil, 22, is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Prosecutors said she bought a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun on March 6 and gave it to Evan Ebel, the only suspect named in the killing of corrections director Tom ...

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