$1.5M settlement for Muslim workers fired in prayer dispute

DENVER – A big U.S. meatpacker has agreed to pay $1.5 million to 138 Somali-American Muslim workers who were fired from their jobs at a Colorado plant after they were refused prayer breaks, a...

DATE: Sept. 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Spaceport Colorado sells on the future of space travel

AURORA — There was a time we would have marveled at flying to 380,000 feet to experience the curvature of the Earth, weightlessness, and the darkness of space. In the next few decades, space travel...

DATE: Sept. 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Colorado students show gains in literacy on 2018 state tests

More than half of all Colorado students in third through eighth grades continue to fall below state expectations in reading, writing and math, according to results of state tests students took this...

DATE: Sept. 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Gov. John Hickenlooper makes plea to preserve domestic-violence funding

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is making his views known to Washington about domestic violence. Congress left for its August recess without reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. Congress...

DATE: Aug. 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Navajo Nation commemorates anniversary of 1868 treaty

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A group of Navajo runners had reached a dusty New Mexico hilltop while retracing a 400-mile desert route that their ancestors had crossed a century and a half earlier. That...

DATE: June 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Colorado girl, 4, dies after weight falls on top of her

GREELEY – Police in northern Colorado say a 4-year-old girl died after a barbell weight fell on top of her. The Greeley Tribune reports Aaliya Marie Montoya was playing with a sibling and a cousin...

DATE: June 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Officials: Efforts failing to save U.S. West sagebrush land

BOISE, Idaho – Public lands managers are losing a battle against a devastating combination of invasive plant species and wildfires in the vast sagebrush habitats in the U.S. West that support...

DATE: May 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Trial moved for couple accused of attempting to kill cattle

Two Durango environmentalists who face charges for supposedly trying to kill cattle by closing a corral gate will have their trials moved to a new venue after a judge ruled they wouldn’t receive a...

DATE: May 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

State targets treatment, enforcement to fight heroin

DENVER – Colorado officials said Tuesday that they hope a two-fold approach will prevent the growth of the state’s heroin epidemic. Federal and state officials announced plans to focus on...

DATE: April 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Colorado SWAT leader 1st transgender to FBI National Academy

FRISCO, Colo. – A Colorado SWAT team coordinator is believed to be the first transgender woman accepted to attend the FBI National Academy in its 83-year history. Summit County Sheriff’s Office...

DATE: April 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Colorado Democrats try to block census citizenship question

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet joined a group of Senate colleagues this week in introducing a bill to block the Trump administration from asking residents about their citizenship on...

DATE: March 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

Man accused of chaining woman in sex slave case gets 6 years

GRAND JUNCTION — A Colorado man accused of keeping a woman chained in his basement over the course of several months has been sentenced to six years in prison and three years of parole in exchange...

DATE: March 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

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