WASHINGTON—Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target: President Barack Obama's health care law....
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KABUL, Afghanistan—Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday....
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NEW YORK—A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime....
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So, right up until the time he lashed a two-run home run to cap a remember-when comeback and help push Pueblo West into the final four of the Class 4A state baseball tournament as the lone unbeaten team, the list of Derrick Robinson's hits that cleared...
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DES MOINES, Iowa—It's all about the odds. With four out of every five possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot during Saturday night's drawing, a windfall of hundreds of millions of...
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The Eaton Reds are going to the final four in the Class 3A baseball tournament. In other news Saturday, the sun rose in the east and set in the west....
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As a graduating senior with a 4.3 grade-point average, Connor Lambert is smart enough to know he was looking like anything but a state playoff baseball hero with two outs in the second inning....
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AT JEFFERSON COUNTY STADIUM CLASS 5A BOYS Team scores_ Cherokee Trail, 74.5; Ftn.-Ft. Carson 64; Cherry Creek 62; Ft. Collins 53; Castle View 47; Grandview 45; Highlands Ranch 35; Gateway 33; Poudre 32; Chatfield 27; Liberty 25; Chaparral 23; ThunderRidge...
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A passenger on a motorcycle was killed in Aurora Saturday after the motorcycle struck a car, according to the Aurora Police Department....
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The funeral for Jim Monaghan, a long-time Colorado political strategist, will be held at Denver's Holy Ghost Catholic Church on Wednesday, May 22, at 9 a.m....
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Whether they were waiting for the next big drop or throwing their hands up as the world flipped upside-down, every whirling rider was certain of one thing.
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ORLANDO, Fla.—Paul McCartney is kicking off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour in Orlando.
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Students and neighborhood residents joined together Saturday to dig in Aurora Public Schools' first community garden. Located at North Middle School,the garden is part of a new curriculum for the school's health sciences and science courses.
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A few pregame notes of note before the Rockies host the Giants Saturday night in the third game of a four-game series at Coors Field: * Is Dexter Fowler emerging from his May slide? Manager Walt Weiss believes so. “I am seeing signs,”...
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Re: “Sympathy, no; clemency, yes,” May 12 editorial. The Denver Post editorial makes a very compelling argument for why the death penalty should not be used in the case of Nathan Dunlap. The numbers show how unevenly the death penalty is carried...
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LOWELL, Mass.—Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston Marathon, police commissioner Ed Davis said Saturday....
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The National Weather Service has issued the first tornado watch for Colorado this year....
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DAMASCUS, Va.—Witnesses in southwestern Virginia say a car has driven into a crowd at a festival parade....
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LOS ANGELES—A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead: THE CASE Jackson's mother...
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Rescuers are working to evacuate a mountain biker from a remote trail after the rider plunged off his bike and landed on his face during an endurance race on the Power Line Trail in Douglas County, officials say.
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The 52-year-old wife and 33-year-old daughter of a Colorado Springs man allegedly conspired with an acquaintance to kill the 47-year-old man, officials say.
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Kanye West projected his new video, "New Slaves," onto 66 buildings in cities around the world on Friday, including New York, Toronto, Chicago, London, Paris and Berlin....
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Ana Holland of Regis Jesuit High School won the 5A state 100-meter dash title Saturday at Jeffco Stadium in 11.33 seconds which, entering the weekend, would be the top time in the country....
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Josh wants Masai back. Masai wants to be back. But here comes a R.A. Dickey-like knuckleball. The Toronto Raptors have targeted Masai Ujiri as their top candidate for general manager, this reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports. Ujiri was an...
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A two-night course that was to offer Aspenites certification in mental health first aid has been canceled, due to a lack of interest....
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The human remains were found under a trailer in a park at 8150 W. Colfax Ave. in Lakewood on Aug. 18, 1977 behind the Top Notch Motel. The body was too decomposed to immediately tell who she was. Lakewood detectives searched through stacks of missing...
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DES MOINES, Iowa—It's all about the odds. With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars—and that's...
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WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency.
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One day after 10 boys wore tank tops to Greeley West High School in protest of a dress code, 30 boys repeated the effort Friday.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.—Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor....
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WASHINGTON—Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U....
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif.—A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north of Los Angeles....
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ORANGE, Calif.—As expected, police announced that the body found in a remote section of an Orange County canyon was Maribel Ramos, a 36-year-old former Army Sergeant missing for two weeks....
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ATLANTA—Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections....
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WASHINGTON—Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence...
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LAS VEGAS—O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went...
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NEWARK, N.J—An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble....
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SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said....
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PARIS—French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate....
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Ken Kowynia stops midslope to admire a roped-off copse of spruce trees. Young tree tips barely poke through the snow in the shadow of giant old-growth spruce.
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When Jordan Pacheco’s father, Joe, comes up from Albuquerque for Saturday night’s game against the Giants, his son will have a keepsake ready for him. It will be a baseball, in a sealed plastic bag. The same baseball that Pacheco...
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The firestorm buffeting the Internal Revenue Service intensified Friday as lawmakers began what they promised would be an extensive effort to learn whether there was any political motivation or White House involvement in the agency's recently acknowledged...
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San Jose's Chris Wondolowski seems to have kept his stellar form from last season — when his 27 goals (tying a Major League Soccer season record) won him the Golden Boot as top scorer and the league MVP. So far this season, he has five goals (ranking...
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University of Colorado women's golf coach Anne Kelly announced that Valor Christian's Victoria Glenn will continue her education and play golf at CU....
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CAIRO—The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders....
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UNIONDALE, N.Y.—Last Sunday Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University junior studying public relations, posted a recipe for how to prepare July 4-themed strawberries covered in sparkling sugars on her blog....
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For the first time that anyone can remember, the Denver City Council on June 10 won't complete its weekly meeting because too few council members will be present....
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Firearm sales in Colorado continued to soar while lawmakers passed a significant gun-control package this legislative session.
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Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Barack Obama asked for some rain protection....
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Fifty-four Colorado sheriffs have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit over two of the gun bills passed during this year's state legislative session.
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