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• Woman Wanted For Kidnapping, Robbery In Greeley Arrested In Colorado Springs

  28-05-2016 23:45
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A woman wanted for kidnapping and robbery out of Greeley has been arrested in Colorado Springs.
  According to Colorado Springs police, the Greeley Police Department asked them for help after getting information the woman was in a home on the city’s southeast side.
  Nicole Archuleta-Aguirre, 34, was found at a home in the 1900 block of Capulin Drive Friday evening. She was taken into custody without incident.
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• 1 Killed, 2 Injured In Apartment Fire In Florence

  28-05-2016 23:26
  
  FLORENCE, Colo. (CBS4) – A woman is dead and two people were injured after a fire destroyed their apartment in Florence early Saturday morning.
  Crews pushed through thick smoke and flames and rescued two people inside. A third never made it out. Police found her body after the fire was under control.
  An officer and a deputy who helped evacuate the building were treated for smoke inhalation.
  The name of the deceased is being withheld until next-of-kin are notified.
  
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• Boy Scouts Honor Fallen Heroes With Flags At Fort Logan National Cemetery

  28-05-2016 23:18
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Colorado Boy Scouts honored fallen heroes on Saturday by planting 100,000 flags in Fort Logan National Cemetery — one at each grave.
  The scouts covered more than 200 square acres reading each name aloud, placing a flag, and saluting the grave stone.
  (credit: CBS)
  Scout leaders say it’s an important lesson for their troop.
  “It gives them a perspective on what people have done before them and how people have served their country and the sacrifices they have
  
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• Serial Window Peeping Suspect Commits Suicide As Deputies Serve Search Warrant

  28-05-2016 23:05
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – A serial window peeping suspect in Fort Collins took his own life as police were attempting to serve a search warrant.
  On Wednesday deputies arrested Steven Lee Christensen for his alleged involvement in a number of window peeping cases over the last six months.
  Investigators said several residents of Circle Drive reported suspicious activity on and around their property during the past several months. On several of the occasions, surveillance cameras captured
  
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• Mount Evans Road To Remain Closed Through The Holiday Weekend

  28-05-2016 22:51
  
  CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – The popular summer destination of Mount Evans won’t be accessible by car until at least Tuesday.
  “Due to drifting snow and persistent ice, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will require additional time to clear and open Mount Evans Highway to the summit of Mount Evans,” Emily Wilfong with CDOT said in a statement.
  RELATED: Images Of Mount Evans From Copter4
  Mount Evans Highway is the highest paved road in the nation. It st
  
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• Park Service Considers Visitor Caps, Expects Record Crowds

  28-05-2016 22:46
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) – As the National Park Service kicks off a centennial summer expected to draw record crowds, the agency is seriously considering caps on how many people pass through some of the country’s most iconic landscapes and historical sites each day.
  Park managers have begun looking at whether, when and how best to manage the impact of more people on the parks, their features and the visitors’ experience.
  “Fundamental to the mission of the National Park Service
  
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• Denver DA: No Charges Against Police Who Killed Parolee

  28-05-2016 22:38
  
  DENVER (AP) – Denver’s district attorney won’t pursue charges against police who shot and killed a parolee who had hijacked a vehicle, led officers on an afternoon chase in a residential neighborhood and shot at them, wounding one.
  The Denver Post reports that in a letter to Police Chief Robert White, DA Mitch Morrissey says Gerardino Cayetano-Gonzalez endangered officers and the public and appeared determined to escape or die after police responded to a report of a burgla
  
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• Colorado Bureau Of Investigation Crime Lab Has New Location

  28-05-2016 22:29
  
  ARVADA, Colo. (AP) – The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has moved its lab for fingerprint, ballistics, DNA and other testing from Lakewood to bigger quarters in Arvada.
  The Denver Post reports CBI held a grand opening last month after a $7 million renovation. Lab manager Aaron Koning says the new 26,000-square-foot facility is nearly three times the size of the Lakewood facility. Koning says he expects the move to improve efficiency and speed.
  CBI Denver laboratory director Katie Fe
  
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• Jeffco Schools Breaks Ground On New K-8 School In Arvada

  28-05-2016 22:23
  
  ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) – The Jefferson County School District broke ground on a brand new K-8 school in Arvada on Thursday. It’s the district’s first new construction in a decade.
  The $25 million project will serve students in Arvada’s Candelas neighborhood.
  (credit: CBS)
  “This area is really developing very quickly and we’re making plans to make sure we accommodate students that move into the area,” Jefferson County Schools Superintendent Dan McMinimee sa
  
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• Family & Friends Gather To Remember Teen Killed In Crash Near Conifer

  28-05-2016 22:14
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Loved ones gathered on Thursday to remember a teenager killed in a crash near Conifer.
  John Yoder, 19, from Denver was one of four teens in a truck that rolled off a cliff on May 10. Only one survived.
  (credit: St. John’s Military School)
  Yoder’s family and friends paid tribute at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Denver.All four teens attended St. John’s Military School in Salina, Kansas. They were in Colorado on camping trip to celebrate their graduation.
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• CDOT Begins Work On ‘Climbing’ Lane On I-25 In Northern Colorado

  28-05-2016 22:00
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – Work is now underway for the expansion of Interstate 25 in Northern Colorado.
  Crews are adding an extra “climbing” lane between Loveland and Fort Collins. It will run specifically from Highway 56 to south of Weld County Road 38. The hope is to relieve congestion on the highway.
  Berthoud Hill on I-25 (credit: CBS)
  The Colorado Department of Transportation expects to both start and finish the project at a cost of $9.5 million.
  CDOT also mentioned the
  
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• Mother Wants Thief To Return Son’s Ashes, No Questions Asked

  28-05-2016 21:49
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A burglar stole all the jewelry from a Colorado Springs mother but she only wants one piece back –an irreplaceable locket containing her late son’s ashes.
  The locket (credit: CBS)
  Nola Thomasson’s 41-year-old son Travis died of heart failure in September. She had a necklace custom made in his memory.
  Travis Thomasson (credit: CBS)
  “You can keep the jewelry, the gold, the diamonds; you can keep the pearls. But I hope you’ll see
  
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• Esquire Says 2 Bars In Denver Are Some Of America’s Best

  28-05-2016 21:10
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Two bars in Denver are some of the best bars in America, according to Esquire magazine.
  Esquire’s list of the best 18 places comes out Monday.
  The Occidental in LoHi is said to be a modern bar owned by one of “America’s top mixologists.” It’s located on 32nd Avenue.
  The Occidental (credit: CBS)
  Esquire also picked Shelby’s Bar and Grill on 18th Street downtown as an old style staple.
  Shelby’s Bar and Grill (credit: CBS)
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• 11-Year-Old Girl Dies Days After Getting Hit By SUV

  28-05-2016 20:53
  
  By Howard Nathan
  SHERIDAN, Colo. (CBS4) – A little girl has died days after she was hit by a vehicle while riding her bike.
  Aundrea Plunkett, 11, was struck by a vehicle last Sunday on Zuni Street near Hampden Avenue. Life support was removed on Thursday.
  “She would make me pull over on the side of the road and give a guy a dollar,” said her stepfather Ken Wilson.
  Wilson said Plunkett suffered massive internal injuries. Her collision with a Ford Expedition happened near her hou
  
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• Trail Ridge Road Opens For Season But Night Closures In Place

  28-05-2016 20:07
  
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (CBS4) – The highest continuously paved road in the country is now open to vehicle traffic.
  Trail Ridge Road runs from Estes Park on the eastern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park to Grand Lake on the southwestern side of the park. It climbs above 12,000 feet as it crosses the Continental Divide.
  Trail Ridge Road on Friday (credit: RMNP)
  The road opened at 11 a.m. on Saturday. It will close daily at 8 p.m. because the nighttime temperatures drop below
  
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• Protesters Clash With Police Over Sitting On The 16th Street Mall

  28-05-2016 19:46
  
  By Kelly Werthmann
  DENVER (CBS4) – A handful of people were issued citations, some even arrested, Friday afternoon for sitting on the sidewalk on the 16th Street Mall.
  About 15 people protesting a city ordinance clashed with Denver police when they were told they needed to stand or sit elsewhere.
  (credit: CBS)
  “We’re just protesting for the right to rest,” Cassandra Marcom, one of the protestors, told CBS4. “We have a right to sit down.”
  A City and County of D
  
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• Thief Steals Rent Checks From Apartment Complex In Aurora

  28-05-2016 19:33
  
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Aurora police are asking for help in identifying a man who stole rent checks from an apartment building.
  Police say the man broke into an apartment’s leasing office and stole people’s rent checks. It happened May 3 at the Fitzsimons Place Apartments on North Nome Street near East Colfax Avenue.
  Additional Information From The Aurora Police Department
  If you know who this person is please contact Investigator Gerald Medina at 303-739-1846 or tipster can co
  
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• Police Need Help Finding Jewelry Store Thieves

  28-05-2016 19:02
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Police are searching for two men who stole from a jewelry store at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center and surveillance cameras recorded the thieves in action.
  A man walked into Cherry Creek’s Hyde Park jewelry store and asked an attendant to show him high-priced watches so valuable the clerk had to put on a protective glove. After a series of different watches and going from counter to counter the thief found one he liked and walked to the far end of a counter and sprin
  
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• Medical Issue Suspected After Inmate Found Dead In Boulder

  28-05-2016 18:46
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Authorities say a woman who was found dead in her cell at the Boulder County Jail likely had a medical issue.
  Sheriff’s investigators say the 29-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was found unresponsive during a routine welfare check Friday afternoon. Medical crews performed CPR for more than half an hour with no success.
  Jail staff say deputies had checked on the woman about 20 minutes before she was found unresponsive. She was booked into the ja
  
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• 3 Suspects Arrested In Pueblo County Traffic Stop Shooting

  28-05-2016 18:33
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. (AP/CBS4) – Pueblo County authorities have arrested three suspects wanted in connection with a shot fired at law enforcement officers.
  According to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office, two deputies and a Pueblo police officer were conducting a traffic stop at about 3:15 a.m. Thursday when a second vehicle drove by and fired a gunshot at them. Investigators say the vehicle sped off and was found a short time later with nobody inside.
  Candelaria Dedmon, 25, was arrested du
  
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• Chatwood Leads Rockies To 5-2 Win Over Sizzling Giants

  28-05-2016 17:12
  
  DENVER (AP) – Tyler Chatwood felt like he was throwing the best he’d ever thrown just before undergoing his second Tommy John surgery in July 2014.
  Look at him now – better than ever.
  Chatwood threw seven masterful innings, Charlie Blackmon had one of Colorado’s three run-scoring doubles and the Rockies beat San Francisco 5-2 on Friday night to end the Giants’ 10-game winning streak against NL West teams.
  The command of Chatwood (6-3) was stellar as he became the si
  
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• Win Tickets To Dead & Company!

  28-05-2016 12:00
  
  Enter to win a pair of tickets to Dead & Company at Folsom Field on Friday, July 2nd or Saturday, July 3rd!
  
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• Small WWII-Era Plane Crashes In Hudson River; Body Found

  28-05-2016 04:33
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A small World War II vintage plane celebrating its 75th anniversary crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey on Friday, and police recovered a body from the single-seat plane, authorities said.
  The plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt, crashed on a part of the river near where a US Airways commercial jet carrying 155 people splash-landed in 2009 in what became known as the Miracle on the Hudson.
  New York Police Department Det. Michael Debonis said that scuba divers
  
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• Aundrea Plunkett Memorial Fund

  28-05-2016 04:13
  
  On Sunday, May 22nd, 11-year-old Aundrea Plunkett was riding her bike near her home in a suburb of Denver when she was struck and critically injured by a passing motorist and neighbor. Despite efforts, Aundrea did not survive.
  
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• Superbug Has Denver Health Experts On High Alert

  28-05-2016 03:58
  
  DENVER (CBS4)– Denver Health experts are on high alert after a Pennsylvania woman became the first human case of a superbug– resistant to all antibiotics– in the United States.
  “The bacteria is unique because it’s the first time we have seen these bacteria in the United States, and it’s resistant to the last drug available,” said Kaiser Permanente Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Adam Jackson.
  The CDC says the superbug was discovered after a 49-year-old woma
  
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• Beekeeper Captures Bee Swarm In Park Hill

  28-05-2016 03:43
  
  DENVER (CBS4)– A beekeeper captured a bee swarm in a Park Hill neighborhood on Friday afternoon.The honeybees were spotted off 29th and Ash in Park Hill. So a beekeeper came in and plucked the hundreds of bees from the tree. (credit: CBS)
  “You can let someone know and they’ll collect them or they’ll eventually find someplace to create their new hive. They’re actually splitting from another hive, usually. They’re doing what nature has them do,” said beeke
  
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• Report: Colorado Prison Chief’s Killing Was Gang Hit

  28-05-2016 03:28
  
  DENVER (AP) — Newly released documents show authorities believe the killing of Colorado’s prisons chief was ordered by members of a white supremacist prison gang — the clearest indication yet that more than one person was involved in the slaying.
  An investigative report obtained by The Denver Post alleges the leader of the 211 Crew in Colorado Springs ordered the killing of Tom Clements, and some of the gang’s members helped alleged gunman Evan Ebel flee to Texas, where h
  
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  28-05-2016 03:09
  
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• MS Society: Progressive MS Biggest Challenge For Researchers

  28-05-2016 02:21
  
  By Mark Ackerman
  DENVER (CBS4)– It’s a disease without a cure and without an effective treatment. Now researchers from around the globe are teaming up to tackle the progressive form of multiple sclerosis.
  Anuska Ullal, 35, of Golden is fighting the battle against MS on a daily basis. The mother and former anthrax vaccine researcher was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008. Anuska’s doctors say her disease has now graduated from the relapsing remitting form to progressive M
  
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• Tire Slasher Targets Apartment Complex

  28-05-2016 02:08
  
  By Melissa Garcia
  DENVER (CBS4)– People living at a Denver apartment complex couldn’t get to work Friday after discovering that their tires had been slashed overnight.
  Residents walked out to the private, locked-entry garage attached to their apartment building to find out that someone had vandalized almost every car in the lot.
  The Alta Springs Apartments are located just west of Havana Street and Parker Road.
  “I looked around and realized that everyone had a flat tire,”
  
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• Agency: Measure Would Put Most Of State Off-Limits To Wells

  28-05-2016 01:37
  
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado regulators say a proposal to require new oil and gas wells to be at least 2,500 feet from homes and schools would leave 90 percent of the state off-limits to future drilling.
  The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission released a report Friday on the impact of a proposed constitutional amendment that backers hope to put on the November ballot.
  The report says that in the state’s five top five oil and gas counties, 95 percent of the land area would off-limi
  
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• Lawsuit Seeks To Kick Keyser Off GOP Senate Ballot

  28-05-2016 01:00
  
  DENVER (AP) — Former state Sen. Jon Keyser’s name should be removed from Colorado’s Republican U.S. Senate primary ballot because the secretary of state wrongfully certified that Keyser petitioned his way there, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
  The suit filed on behalf of three voters claims Keyser’s campaign didn’t get enough valid voter signatures in the Denver-area 1st Congressional District to qualify.
  Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office insisted
  
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• Dog Rescued From Sump Pump Hole Under Home

  28-05-2016 00:56
  
  By Lauren DiSpirito
  EVANS, Colo. (CBS4)– Body-worn camera video captured a member of the Evans Police Department as she rescued a dog trapped underneath a mobile home crawl space in the Cave Creek neighborhood.
  The dog had been trapped four feet underground in a sump pump hole for up to four days before being rescued.
  On May 14, Tanka, a 6-year-old mix, had gotten out through a gate that her owner Mike Linn had mistakenly left open. Despite searching his neighborhood, Linn was unable to fi
  
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• Wrong Ashes Sent To Funeral Of Army Veteran

  28-05-2016 00:41
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. (CBS4)– A grieving family was devastated when they discovered the wrong remains had been sent to the funeral of an Army veteran.A military honor guard was paying final respects to Army veteran William Pugliese. That’s when his family realized a funeral home in Pueblo had sent the wrong urn to a cemetery in Dallas.They saw another name on the cremation certificate.“I think we did a whole service for this man that we don’t even know,” said William’
  
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• Avoid Peak Travel Times, Arrive Early To Get Through TSA Security

  28-05-2016 00:25
  
  DENVER (CBS4)– The Memorial Day weekend is shaping up to be a busy one at Denver International Airport. Between May 24 and May 30 more than one million people will make their way through DIA.In addition to all TSA security checkpoints in operation, security staff are using K9s as well. (credit: CBS)
  The peak travel times through the weekend are from 5 a.m. until 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. through Memorial Day.DIA officials recommend arriving at the airport two to three hours before yo
  
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