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Colorado's Black Forest fire grows into state's most destructive
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Black Forest wildfire has become the most destructive in Colorado history, burning at least 360 homes, officials said Thursday. The fire is about 10 miles east of last year’s Waldo Canyon fire, which had been the...
Tags: Waldo Canyon Fire (2012), Wildfires, Natural Disasters
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Thousands flee Colo. wildfire; 92 homes destroyed
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Jaenette Coyne estimates she had five minutes to leave home after calling 911 to report forest fire smoke behind her home. There was no time to grab wedding albums, fingerprint artwork by her 20-month-old daughter,...
Tags: Waldo Canyon Fire (2012), Wildfires, Fires, Natural Disasters, The Home Depot
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900 inmates moved from Colorado prison because of wildfire
About 900 inmates at a medium-security Colorado state prison have been evacuated because of the danger from a growing wildfire, one of four sweeping through the state. No injuries have been reported from the four fires that have forced the evacuations...
Tags: Waldo Canyon Fire (2012), Wildfires, Prisons, Fires, Natural Disasters
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How the death penalty will end: first Maryland, then the nation
The death penalty debate in Maryland is finally over. This spring's decision by the General Assembly to replace the death penalty with life without parole was cemented last week, when right-wing activists failed to muster enough signatures to force the...
Tags: Murder, FBI, U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental Issues, NAACP
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Charity funds for tragedy victims getting trickier
Within hours of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, even as the tragedy was unfolding on live television, the machinery of victim fundraising had already started to hum. By 5 p.m. April 16 — less than 26 hours after bomb blasts killed three...
Tags: Charity, United Way , Murder, Health, Social Issues
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Romney donors to get a first look at potential 2016 contenders
An early morning skeet-shooting excursion with Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin. A golf game with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. A chance to mingle over breakfast with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Those are just a few of the offerings available to the...Tags: Political Fundraising, Rand Paul, The Wall Street Journal, Elections, Ann Romney
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Colorado governor signs law to compensate exonerated convicts
Colorado became the latest state to pass a law that compensates the wrongfully convicted for their time behind bars. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the bill Wednesday in Denver, accompanied by exonerated convict Robert Dewey, who had fought for its...Tags: Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Prisons, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries
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James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas. Holmes, 25, is accused in the July...Tags: Trials, Murder, Health and Medical Professionals, U.S. Supreme Court, Psychiatrists
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Man possibly linked to killer of Colorado prisons chief captured
A man linked to a white supremacist gang has been apprehended in Colorado and will be questioned in the shooting death of the state’s prisons chief, officials said Friday. James Lohr, 47, was taken into custody in Colorado Springs on Friday and...
Tags: Murder, Prisons, Tom Clements
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Maryland House passes gun-control bill
The House of Delegates voted Wednesday to give Maryland one of the toughest gun laws in the nation, passing a bill that would ban the sale of assault-type weapons, set a 10-bullet limit on magazines and require fingerprints and a license to buy a handgun....
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Judges, Brian E Frosh, Elections, Baltimore County
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Few states find narrow route to gun control laws
From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...
Tags: Hunting, Joe Biden, Elections, Democratic Party, Andrew Cuomo
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Alleged home invader shot to death, raising gun issues in Colorado
President Obama was in Colorado on Wednesday, hoping to use the recent enactment of gun-control legislation there as a way to spur support for his own package of proposals. But a politically purple state such as Colorado can also offer ammunition for...
Tags: Murder, Wayne LaPierre, Prisons, Lee Stevens, Evan Spencer Ebel
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