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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade considers a question during a news conference after a hearing for the suspect in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub Monday, June 26, 2023, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)

Colorado Springs mayor testifies in cross-burning trial: ‘It felt very targeted against me’

May 20, 2025 at 8:55 a.m.

One of the defendant’s attorneys argued their alleged actions were political theater — free speech protected by the Constitution and not meant to cause harm.

FILE – Hikers look up at a fast moving storm as it makes its way through Zion National Park outside of Springdale, Utah, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, File)

A Republican push to sell public lands in the West is reigniting a political fight

May 11, 2025 at 12:14 p.m.

Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land will generate revenue and ease growth pressures in booming Western cities.

FILE – The residence where a former funeral home owner kept a deceased women’s body in a hearse for two years as well as the remains of 30 cremated people is shown Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in southwest Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)

Funeral home owner who left corpse in hearse in Denver for a over a year pleads guilty

April 14, 2025 at 12:55 p.m.

Miles Harford’s guilty plea in Denver follows years of other gruesome funeral home cases in Colorado, including one where the owners were accused of storing nearly 200 bodies in a...

FILE – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks before signing into law a surface transportation infrastructure development bill to help connect the state with a passenger rail system during a ceremony May 16, 2024, in front of Union Station in lower downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Gov. Jared Polis walks a tightrope in approaching Trump. Deportations are likely to be the first test.

January 8, 2025 at 8:57 a.m.

Gov. Jared Polis explained his outreach with his go-to refrain that isn’t often heard in today’s hyperpolarized politics: “We can get good ideas from the left and the right.”

FILE – Border Patrol agents talk with migrants seeking asylum as they prepare them for transportation to be processed, June 5, 2024, near Dulzura, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump’s promised crackdown on immigration

November 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

“DHS uses AI to assist our personnel in their work, but DHS does not use the outputs of AI systems as the sole basis for any law enforcement action or...

District Attorney Michael Allen speaks during a news conference after owners of a Colorado funeral home who let nearly 190 bodies decay pleaded guilty to corpse abuse in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Colorado funeral home owners who let nearly 190 bodies decay plead guilty to corpse abuse

November 25, 2024 at 7:17 p.m.

Over the years, the Hallfords spent extravagantly, prosecutors say. They used customers’ money and nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds to buy laser body sculpting, fancy cars, trips to Las...

FILE – Rev. Paula Stecker of the Christ the King Lutheran Church stands in front of a memorial set up outside Club Q following a mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Club Q shooting victims sue El Paso County for not enforcing red flag laws

November 19, 2024 at 6:06 p.m.

Victims and mothers of those killed say the murders could’ve been prevented if the sheriff’s office used the state’s red flag law after clear warning signs that the gunman intended...

FILE – A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

Plea hearing postponed for Colorado funeral home owners accused of letting 190 bodies decay

November 9, 2024 at 12:17 p.m.

The husband and wife owners of a funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building in Colorado while giving grieving families fake ashes were expected to plead...

An aerial view shows Hillside Villa, bottom center, an apartment complex where Marina Maalouf is a longtime tenant, in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

As affordable housing disappears, states like Colorado scramble to shore up the losses

October 6, 2024 at 1:27 p.m.

While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could be yanked out from under them in the next five...

FILE – A hearse and debris sit behind the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

Families whose loved ones were left rotting in Colorado funeral home owed $950 million, judge rules

August 5, 2024 at 5:21 p.m.

The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 million to the victims’ relatives...

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