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  • Mudslide in Colorado
  • More heavy rain is drenching the Colorado town of Manitou Springs three days after a deadly mudslide.
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  • Two people injured in the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., one year ago marked the anniversary Saturday afternoon by getting married.
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  • Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut gathered with dozens of supporters Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater almost a year to the day after the attack.
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  • A 16-year-old boy wearing a Batman shirt and mask broke into a building at the Colorado State Fair, then turned himself in to police after seeing his likeness on the news.
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  • Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes will be restrained during his trial by wearing a harness under his clothes.
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  • The judge overseeing the Colorado theater shooting case is reconsidering when suspect James Holmes will stand trial.
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  • A 6-year-old transgender girl will be able to return to school in after winning the right to use the girls' bathroom.
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  • The smoke in the sky over a ranch near South Fork, Colo., glows red from a wildfire that is threatening the town on Friday, June 21, 2013. South Fork was evacuated Friday as the fire approaches from the west. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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  • Fanned by another afternoon of high winds, the erratic wildfire threatening tourist areas of the southwestern Colorado mountains grew to 100 square miles on Saturday, and fire officials said they saw little hope for a break before Tuesday.
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  • This Tuesday June18, 2013 image provided by the American Red Cross shows wildfire in Prescott, Ariz. This nearly 11-square-mile wildfire in Arizonas Prescott National Forest grew Wednesday as more than 500 firefighters were dispatched to battle the blaze.(AP Photo/American Red Cross, Todd Tamcsin)
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  • Firefighters attacked dozens of blazes in Western states where hot and windy conditions persisted Thursday.
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  • Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport.
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  • Denver International Airport passengers are taking shelter after a tornado was spotted in the area.
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  • Firefighters could again get some help from rain Monday as they work to put out hot spots from the most destructive wildfire ever in Colorado.
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  • Firefighters worked to get more people, evacuated by Colorado's most destructive wildfire, back home Sunday.
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  • Officials say one person was taken into custody following a "possible security threat" on a Denver-bound flight.
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  • Firefighters were finally gaining some ground Friday on a wildfire in which two people were killed as they tried to escape and 389 homes were destroyed.
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  • A wildfire fueled by hot temperatures, gusty winds and thick, bone-dry forests has destroyed 92 homes, damaged five more and prompted more than 7,000 residents northeast of Colorado Springs to flee, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
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  • The number of houses destroyed by a wildfire near Colorado Springs could grow to around 100.
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  • Colorado officials are having second thoughts about treating pot magazines like prono.
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  • Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel.
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  • A judge on Tuesday accepted James' Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
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  • Usually when you think of catwalk drama, it involves a supermodel or two.
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  • Action News
  • Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands.
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  • Arapahoe County Sheriffs Office released the booking photo of James Eagan Holmes on Monday, July 23, 2012.
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  • Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect told a judge Monday he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge won't rule on whether to allow that yet.
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  • The man accused in the deadly Colorado theater shootings wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
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  • Police say no crime occurred when a second-grade Colorado teacher taped her students' mouth shut when they wouldn't be quiet.
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  • Authorities in Colorado are looking for a well-groomed man suspected of stealing more than $2,600 worth of teeth-whitening strips, weight-loss pills, probiotics, condoms, Rogaine and other hair-growth products from several Walgreens stores.
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  • Snow falls near the spot where five members of a backcountry snowboarder group were found dead after they were trapped by an avalanche on Loveland Pass, Colo., Saturday, April 20, 2013. According to officials from the Clear Creek County Sheriffs Office, the five were killed on the high mountain pass in Colorados White River National Forest earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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  • Five snowboarders were killed Saturday afternoon in a backcountry avalanche in Colorado.
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  • Members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana and listen to live music, at the Denver 420 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 Denver rally draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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  • Authorities are hunting for suspects after shooting broke out during a massive marijuana celebration in Denver, leaving two people with gunshot wounds.
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  • It's the ski season that won't quit.
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  • A spring storm is bringing much-needed moisture to parts of Colorado and Wyoming, but winds are raising the wildfire danger to the south.
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  • Boulder, Colorado, is hanging up on its downtown payphones.
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  • FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, James Holmes, left, and defense attorney Tamara Brady appear in district court in Centennial, Colo. for his arraignment. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)
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  • This undated photo released by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. Ebel, 28, is the man who led Texas authorities on a 100 mph car chase that ended in a shootout Thursday, March 21, 2013, and may be linked to the slaying of Colorados state prison chief. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)
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  • Arapahoe County Sheriffs Office released the booking photo of James Eagan Holmes on Monday, July 23, 2012.
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  • New questions are confronting the university that Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes attended.
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  • Because of a paperwork error, the suspect in last month's killing of Colorado's corrections chief was freed from prison four years too early.
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  • Prosecutors want James Holmes executed for last year's attack on an Aurora movie theater.
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  • Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes said Wednesday he would plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty.
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  • Corrections' officials and guards from as far away as Morocco are among the hundreds of people on Monday honoring the Colorado prisons' chief killed last week while answering his front door.
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  • An early spring snowstorm forced the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.
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  • In the weeks before Colorado's top prisons official was fatally shot after answering his front door, he carried out a variety of functions including requesting execution chemicals and speaking to legislators about security issues
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