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• Children's center facing funding crisis

  27-08-2016 23:50
  
  The Western Slope Center for Children that helps children who have been physically or sexually abused is facing a funding crisis that could mean reduced services for one of the few child advocacy centers in the region.       
  
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• Weather Changes Could Lead To Beaver Creek Fire Flareup

  27-08-2016 23:48
  
  WALDEN, Colo. (CBS4) – Weather changes over the next few days could spark a flareup of the Beaver Creek Fire.
  That’s according to a new briefing released this weekend by fire managers.
  Beaver Creek Fire on Aug. 27, 2016 (credit: U.S. Forest Service)
  The wildfire is located north of the town of Walden near the Wyoming-Colorado border and has been burning since June 19. It has destroyed a cabin and several outbuildings.
  The fire has burned more than 37,000 acres and is 53 percent conta
  
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• Police Identify Man Who Drove Pickup Into Southwest Plane

  27-08-2016 23:21
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Authorities have identified a man who was wearing only boxer shorts when he stole a pickup and drove it into a Southwest Airlines plane at an airport in Omaha, causing minor injuries to three people on board.
  Delairo Koonce (credit: Omaha police)
  Eppley Airfield Police Chief Tim Conahan says an officer spotted Delairo Koonce outside the terminal Thursday evening, screaming that people were trying to kill him. When officers approached, Koonce ran, climbed a fence into the
  
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• Amber Alert: Police Search For 39-Year-Old Man And Baby

  27-08-2016 23:08
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – Colorado Springs police want to find a 39-year-old man and his 3-month-old child.
  An Amber Alert was issued by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in the case just after 3 p.m.Police responded to a domestic violence call Saturday morning and learned a man named Jonathan Beatty threatened to kill the baby and his wife. He was also acting suicidal.
  When the woman tried to report the threats to police, Beatty left with the baby.
  The child’s name is Blaz
  
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• ThunderRidge soccer edges Columbine

  27-08-2016 22:55
  
  The ThunderRidge boys' soccer team edged Columbine 2-1 in a very physical game Saturday morning.       
  
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• Kaepernick Sits During National Anthem In Protest

  27-08-2016 22:55
  
  (The Sports Xchange) – San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said he refused to stand during the national anthem before Friday’s preseason game in protest of the country’s racial inequalities.
  “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media after Friday night’s game against the Green Bay Packers in Santa Clara, Calif. “To me, this is bigger than footb
  
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• Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado Reach Republican River Agreement

  27-08-2016 22:30
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska have reached a new agreement in their longstanding conflict over water in the Republican River basin, the states announced Friday.
  State leaders signed resolutions following monthly negotiations that stretched over two years. The resolutions are intended to provide greater flexibility and certainty for all water users in the region.
  Nebraska and Kansas fought for decades over water entitlements provided under the Republican River Compact,
  
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• 1 Dead In Overnight Officer-Involved Shooting

  27-08-2016 21:50
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – One person was shot and killed in an officer-involved shooting overnight in Denver.
  The incident happened at approximately 3 a.m. in the Baker neighborhood at North Fox Street and Ellworth Avenue, and no officers were hurt.
  (credit: CBS)
  Police said officers were trying to make an arrest at a home and encountered a man inside armed with a knife.
  When the man refused to comply with orders to drop the weapon, he allegedly came closer to them. Police tried to tase him but it w
  
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• Police Search For 39-Year-Old Man And Baby

  27-08-2016 21:43
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – Colorado Springs police want to find a 39-year-old man and his 3-month-old child.
  Police responded to a domestic violence call and learned a man named Jonathan Beatty threatened to kill the baby and his wife. He was also acting suicidal.
  When the woman tried to report the threats to police, Beatty left with the baby.
  The child’s name is Blaze.
  Police say Beatty was last seen driving a 2012 white Chevy truck with Colorado license plate 327YVV.
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• Saturday morning Prep Rally (8/27/16)

  27-08-2016 17:56
  
  The true sign that summer break is over? The Prep Rally returns to the weekend morning show with highlights from all of the week's biggest games.       
  
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• Latest Forecast: August To Wrap Up With Seasonal Weather

  27-08-2016 16:24
  
  By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – Colorado’s weather over the next five days will be just about average for this time of year with no major weather systems on the horizon.
  There is an area of disturbed weather over northern Arizona that will send some clouds and moisture into the state today.
  By this afternoon and evening we’ll see scattered showers and a few thunderstorms but most of the activity should stay over the higher elevations to the south and west of Denver.Meteorologist
  
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• August To Wrap Up With Seasonal Weather

  27-08-2016 16:24
  
  By Chris Spears
  DENVER (CBS4) – Colorado’s weather over the next five days will be just about average for this time of year with no major weather systems on the horizon.
  Denver’s average high right now is 85°F with an average low of 56°.
  There is an area of disturbed weather over northern Arizona that will send some clouds and moisture into the state today.
  By this afternoon and evening we’ll see scattered showers and a few thunderstorms develop but most of the ac
  
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• Broncos Offense Off-Balance For Good Reason

  27-08-2016 15:45
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (The Sports Xchange) – If the Broncos call passing plays on 65 percent of their snaps in the regular season as they have in the preseason, their offense will likely be in trouble. At minimum, it will be far from the balanced unit Broncos coach Gary Kubiak wants.One of the reasons for the proliferation of passes was to get a good look at quarterbacks Trevor Siemian, Mark Sanchez and Paxton Lynch. Even though the offensive line features new starters at four positions, Kubiak
  
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• Rockies Fall To Nationals On The Road

  27-08-2016 15:41
  
  The losing pitcher was Jeff Hoffman, who has now lost to the Chicago Cubs and Nationals in his first two big league starts in the past week.
  
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• 1 Injured In Overnight Officer-Involved Shooting

  27-08-2016 14:52
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – One person was taken to the hospital after being hurt in an officer-involved shooting overnight in Denver.
  The incident happened at North Fox Street and Ellworth Avenue, and no officers were hurt.
  The name of the person who was injured has not been released.
  
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• Burglar Steals Dozens Of Guns From Pawn Shop

  27-08-2016 14:37
  
  By Melissa Garcia
  THORNTON, Colo. (CBS4) – Police are searching for a burglar who stole 35 guns from a pawn shop in Thornton.
  A surveillance camera captured video of a man burglarizing Jumping Jack Cash on Washington Street near 88th Avenue around 3:20 a.m. Tuesday.
  (credit: ATF)
  The break-in is one of several gun store burglaries around the Denver metro area in recent months, including two in the Littleton area in June.
  Investigators do not believe those burglaries are related to the most
  
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• Man faces 2 capital murder charges in Mississippi nun deaths

  27-08-2016 08:07
  
  LEXINGTON, Miss. — A man has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of two nuns who were slain in Mississippi, police said.
  Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, was charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a statement released late Friday night.
  Their bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a cl
  
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• Foster Care Youth Hear From Nationally Renown Advocate

  27-08-2016 07:06
  
  By Libby Smith
  CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo (CBS4) – At the Bethany Lutheran Church in Cherry Hills Village, Josh Shipp spoke to foster care youth in one session, and then parents and adults in another session. Shipp brought a message of empowerment to both audiences.
  Josh Shipp speaking in Colorado (credit: CBS)
  “I believe that every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story,” Shipp told CBS4.
  LINK: Josh Shipp
  He spent his entire childhood in the foster care s
  
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• Pomona rallies late to beat Mullen in Zero Week showdown

  27-08-2016 06:19
  
  Pomona junior quarterback Ryan Marquez threw a hard slant pass to Uriah Vigil and the senior broke a tackle before reaching the end zone on a 17-yard play that proved to be the difference Friday night at Mullen.
  Vigil’s touchdown with 26.6 seconds remaining in the Zero Week nonconference showdown gave the Panthers a 28-21 victory at Brother Bernard Kinneavy de La Salle Stadium. Marquez was sharp on slant routes throughout the game, setting up on the game-tying touchdown on a short slant to
  
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• Colorado Springs Olympic Museum groundbreaking likely delayed to October

  27-08-2016 05:32
  
  U.S. Olympic Museum backers still haven’t raised the nearly $10 million in additional private donations they say they need before they’ll launch construction of their already-delayed project, and now probably won’t break ground until at least October.
  As a result, museum backers are all but ruling out a February 2018 opening to coincide with that year’s Winter Olympics – a goal they had set, but which they conceded two months ago would be unlikely.
  “It’s
  
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• Designer drugs kill man found at Nederland pot grow house

  27-08-2016 05:24
  
  Denver Post fileA marijuana plant.The Boulder County Coroner’s Office ruled Friday that a Nederland man found dead outside a home that had been used as an illegal marijuana grow operation had ingested two designer drugs that killed him.
  Sebastian Smith, 22, died from the toxic effects of 25C-NBOMe and 25H-NBOMe, according to a news release from the coroner’s office, which classified his death as accidental.
  According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the two chemicals are two o
  
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• Fuel spill kills hordes of fish in Colorado Springs

  27-08-2016 05:11
  
  Provided by The GazetteOperator Brian Muffley and Swamper Lucio Munoz suction up residual fuel that leaked into Fountain Creek after a fuel tanker-truck crash at Motor City Drive on Friday, August 26, 2016.A fuel tanker-truck crash in south Colorado Springs early Friday allowed thousands of gallons of gasoline to spill into a nearby creek, killing a slew of resident fish.
  The spill occurred at about 4 a.m. when a truck hit a parked vehicle on Motor City Drive and rolled onto
  
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• Personal trainer from Gold Hill sets recond with 57 fourteeners in 32 days, eight hours

  27-08-2016 05:04
  
  “The last 36 hours have been pretty intense.”
  Welcome to the understatement of the month.
  Joe Grant woke up in Frisco Thursday morning, got on his bike, pedaled up Argentine Pass, climbed the adjacent fourteeners Grays Peak and Torreys Peak and returned to Georgetown that afternoon. After a bit of food he got on his bike and started pedaling. Down to Idaho Springs. Up to Central City. Over to Nederland.
  He arrived at the trailhead of Longs Peak at 3 a.m. Friday. He was thinking he&rs
  
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• The colonel’s secret recipe revealed? Not so fast, says KFC

  27-08-2016 04:41
  
  SECRET INGREDIENTS NOT SO SECRET
  Social media is lighting up on the possibility that, at long last, Colonel Sanders’ 11 herbs and spices have been revealed. KFC says it hasn’t, and the original source, a relative, now says he doesn’t know. Anyway, here it is.
  The 11 spices:
  ⅔ tablespoon salt
  ½ tablespoon thyme
  ½ tablespoon basil
  ⅓ tablespoon oregano
  1 tablespoon celery salt
  1 tablespoon black pepper
  1 tablespoon dried mustard
  4 tablespoon paprika
  2 tab
  
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• Weld County Jail trains first drug dog

  27-08-2016 04:23
  
  Every night, Weld County Sheriff’s Deputy Seana MacGregor takes work home with her. Work, for her, is a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois named Roman.
  He is training to be the Weld County Jail’s first drug dog. She is his handler.
  The jail has always had procedures in place to find drugs, but a dedicated dog will make it easier, officials say.
  “If they hide them in their body we’ve had no way of detecting that until now,” said Detention Division Capt. Roger Ainsworth.
  Rea
  
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• DaVita’s second tower becomes final chapter of Central Platte Valley redevelopment

  27-08-2016 03:59
  
  Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper remembers opposing a 1992 ballot measure to bring legalized gaming to the Central Platte Valley, then a tangle of rail lines, contaminated industrial lots and worn-out buildings.
  Gaming backers touted it as a way to jump start development in a city still reeling from the oil bust.  But Hickenlooper, owner of the nearby Wynkoop Brewing Co. at the time, argued the development opportunity was too valuable to fill with casin
  
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• Broncos’ rookie Connor McGovern prepared to assume unexpectedly significant OL role

  27-08-2016 03:43
  
  Connor McGovern has let his mind wander a bit to Sept. 8. Because of injuries and uncertainty at the position, it isn’t a stretch that the Broncos’ fifth-round pick could be the opening day starter at right guard.
  Is McGovern ready for the job?
  “I’d like to think I am,” said McGovern, laughing and rubbing his recently shaved head. “That’s obviously a huge call especially against a team like Carolina. It’s going to be primetime TV. It’s the Su
  
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• Latest Forecast: Back to the 80s With More Sunshine for Your Weekend

  27-08-2016 02:30
  
  By Ed GreeneDENVER (CBS4) – Friday still saw temperatures below normal for this time of year, but warmer that the past few days of upper 60s and lower 70s.Today we just hit 80 degrees right on the nose when our official high reached 90 at the airport and 79 downtown. Only isolated storms were found across the state, but a few severe storm warnings did go up for extreme northern and northeastern Colorado.
  We warm into the 80s for the weekend: look for low to mid 80s on Saturday with a few i
  
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• Buckley Airman Charged In Shooting Death Of His Wife

  27-08-2016 01:19
  
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– A Buckley Air Force Base airman has been charged in the shooting death of his wife.The shooting happened about 6 p.m. Thursday inside the couple’s apartment near Buckley and Alameda. (credit: CBS)
  Brian Lebron-Rivera told police he and his wife were playing with his gun when he pulled the trigger.Brian Lebron-Rivera (credit: Aurora Police)
  He said he was trying to teach his wife how to take a gun from someone and did not think it was loaded.Lebron-Rivera is faci
  
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• Buckely Airman Charged In Shooting Death Of His Wife

  27-08-2016 01:19
  
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– A Buckley Air Force Base airman has been charged in the shooting death of his wife.The shooting happened about 6 p.m. Thursday inside the couple’s apartment near Buckley and Alameda. (credit: CBS)
  Brian Lebron-Rivera told police he and his wife were playing with his gun when he pulled the trigger.Brian Lebron-Rivera (credit: Aurora Police)
  He said he was trying to teach his wife how to take a gun from someone and did not think it was loaded.Lebron-Rivera is faci
  
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• Mother Dies After Saving Her Son From Drowning

  27-08-2016 01:05
  
  LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4)– A mother from Lakewood has died after saving her young son from drowning on a family vacation in Lake Powell.
  Her co-workers told CBS4 they aren’t surprised by the mother’s sacrifice. Chelsey Russell was a well-known and well-liked attorney.
  Her family was vacationing at the popular tourist destination at the Utah-Arizona border when her 2-year-old, who was not wearing a life jacket, fell off a houseboat and she went in after him.
  Russell, 35, was a natu
  
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• Man Wearing Underwear Crashes Truck Into Plane

  27-08-2016 00:52
  
  DENVER (CBS4)– A man has been arrested after he was found only in his underwear after he allegedly crashed a truck into a plane bound for Denver.
  The Southwest Airlines plane sat at the gate at the airport in Omaha, Nebraska when the truck crashed into the plane while passengers boarded.“I heard this loud ‘Boom’ type crash thing and I didn’t know where it came from,” said passenger David Postier. “Then all of a sudden I start hearing people say, ‘O
  
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  27-08-2016 00:43
  
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• Police Officer Impersonator Sentenced To Jail

  27-08-2016 00:25
  
  BRIGHTON, Colo. (CBS4)– A man convicted of impersonating a police officer in Aurora was sentenced to 60 days in jail on Friday.Antonio Marcus Arbogast was convicted of impersonating a police officer and harassment after a trial earlier this month in Adams County District Court. The judge also ordered him to undergo mental health evaluation and treatment.
  Arbogast, 23, began following the woman in the early morning hours of May 18, 2015. She called police and told them that she was being fo
  
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• Mom Who Died Saving Son Kept Him Above Water Until Rescue

  27-08-2016 00:02
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As a Colorado mother enjoyed a family boat trip across Lake Powell’s summer waters, she heard a scream and splash as her 2-year-old son slipped off their houseboat and into the water.
  Chelsey Russell, a 35-year-old mother of two from Lakewood, jumped in to rescue her son.
  She managed to keep the boy above water for at least five agonizing minutes until a family member was able to pull him safely out the water, but she lost her life in the process.
  Chelsey Russel
  
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