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U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat from Colorado, is shown Jan. 29, 2025, questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Kennedy's nomination to be health and human services secretary.

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  • Politics

Colorado senator on Schumer: 'It's important for people to know when it's time to go'

Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet stopped short Wednesday of calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from leadership, but came pretty darn close.

March 20, 2025
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  • Barbara Sprunt
The former site of the Return to Nature funeral home is seen in April, after the Environmental Protection Agency dismantled and cleared the facility in Penrose, Colo. The funeral home's owners, Jon and Carie Hallford, have pleaded guilty to fraud for taking nearly $1 million in total from customers and a federal COVID-19 relief fund.

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  • National

Owners of ‘horrific’ funeral home plead guilty to federal fraud charges

Jon and Carie Hallford were accused of taking money from customers and a pandemic relief fund and spending it on travel, plastic surgery and expensive cars.

October 25, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, Colo., on Friday. On stage, he was flanked by mugshots of undocumented migrants that officials have accused of crimes.

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  • Politics

Trump rallies in Aurora -- a city he has demonized as overrun by migrant crime

Trump doubled down on false claims he has made about migrant crime in the city, and called for the death penalty "for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law-enforcement officer."

October 11, 2024
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By:
  • Bente Birkeland
Search and rescue teams used a litter on an all-terrain wheel to bring a stricken hiker to safety. The man had inadvertently been left behind on an office retreat hike.

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  • National

15 workers on office retreat hiked up a mountain — and one got left behind

The insurance workers were on an office retreat in the Rocky Mountains when they met at dawn to begin a hike to the summit of Mount Shavano. But one man didn't make it back down until the next day.

August 29, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., on Oct. 6, 2023. On Monday, a judge ordered the funeral home’s owners, Carie and Jon Hallford, to pay $950 million to families whose loved ones' remains were mishandled.

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  • National

The owners of a Colorado funeral home are ordered to pay $950M over mishandled remains

"Bad behavior has significant consequences,” the attorney representing families in a class-action lawsuit says. The remains of nearly 200 people were found at the Return to Nature Funeral Home.

August 06, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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  • National

In writing the country’s most sweeping AI law, Colorado focused on fairness, preventing bias

Other states are watching as the law is refined before taking effect in 2026 but it’s getting praise for at least being a first step in regulating AI

June 22, 2024
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  • Bente Birkeland
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  • Politics

The abortion debate is headed to the ballot box. Here's where voters will decide

From Florida to Arizona, reproductive rights supporters seek to add abortion access to state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in 2022.

May 29, 2024
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  • The NPR Network
Rosbely Sira Linarez holds her infant son on April 24 in the north Denver encampment where they've been living with other South and Central American immigrants who arrived in Colorado in the last year.

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  • Law

Migrant arrivals stretched Denver's budget. Now, the city is scaling back aid

In the last two years, Denver has seen more than 40,000 migrants arrive, many on buses chartered by Texas' governor.

May 08, 2024
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  • Kevin J. Beaty

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  • Children's Health

States find a downside to mandatory reporting laws meant to protect children

Colorado is looking at ways to weed out false reporting of child abuse and neglect as the number of reports reaches a record high. New York and California are reworking the policies, too.

April 25, 2024
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  • Kristin Jones
Shopping carts topped with heavy snow sit marooned in the lot of a grocery store as a late winter storm dropped up to a foot of snow Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Golden, Colo.

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  • Weather

Colorado snowstorm knocks out power for thousands

The snowstorm also forced flight cancellations and shut down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts for much of the day, stranding some people in their cars for hours.

March 15, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to restore former President Donald Trump to Colorado's ballot.

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  • Law

A unanimous Supreme Court restores Trump to the Colorado ballot

The decision came only weeks after the justices heard oral arguments in the politically sensitive case that put the high court in the middle of the 2024 presidential election.

March 04, 2024
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  • Carrie Johnson
A Gila monster is displayed at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Dec. 14, 2018. Gila monster bites are often painful to humans, but normally aren't deadly, experts say.

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  • Animals

A Colorado man is dead after a pet Gila monster bite

Christopher Ward was taken to a hospital shortly after being bitten by one of his two pet Gila monsters on Feb. 12. He was soon placed on life support and died Friday, Lakewood police said Tuesday.

February 21, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A banner is displayed in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday as justices prepared to hear arguments in a case about whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from state ballots. The case has profound implications for the 2024 presidential election.

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  • Politics

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot

The dispute comes from Colorado — but it could have national implications for Donald Trump and his political fate.

February 08, 2024
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  • Carrie Johnson
Booking photos provided by the Muskogee County, Okla., Sheriff's Office shows Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home, a Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found.

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  • National

Investigators found stacked bodies and maggots at a Colorado funeral home, FBI says

Investigators at a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found encountered human remains, bodily fluids, flies and maggots throughout the building, an FBI agent testified.

January 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A tractor trailer veers into ditch on Christmas Day on Interstate 80 in Nebraska as a winter storm pummels part of the Midwest. Forecasters are predicting that heavy snow and blizzard conditions will continue through early Wednesday across part of the north-central U.S.

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  • Weather

Blizzard conditions, freezing rain and strong winds slow holiday travel

The "significant" winter storm dropping heavy snow, freezing rains and potentially damaging ice is expected to last through early Wednesday, the National Weather Service warns.

December 26, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
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