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• Officers Search For Man With A Gun In Neighborhood

  02-09-2016 23:17
  
  PARKER, Colo. (CBS4)– Police in Parker and deputies the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to a man with a gun in a neighborhood on Friday afternoon. The suspect was in custody a short time later.
  Police tweeted out an update on the situation.DCSO and Parker are responding to a man with a gun in a neighborhood.Sierra Middle School has been put on Lock Down
  — Parker Police Dept. (@ParkerPolice) September 2, 2016It is unclear in which neighborhood the man was spotted.Sierr
  
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• Broncos Trim Roster But 1 Cut Already Hurts

  02-09-2016 23:01
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — NFL coaches preach all summer about keeping the best 53 players on the roster. Sometimes, however, money gets in the way and decisions are made based as much on payroll as performance.
  The Broncos could pay the price this season for one such move.
  Rookie Riley Dixon shanked an 18-yard punt in Denver’s final preseason tuneup at Arizona on Thursday night, just two days after the Broncos handed him the job by releasing seven-year incumbent Britton Colquitt, the f
  
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• Colorado To Hold One Of Nation’s Largest 9/11 Commemorations

  02-09-2016 22:51
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Coloradans will come together at 1 p.m. in Denver’s Civic Center Park for a remembrance ceremony and concert.
  Colorado Remembers 9/11 will include a fire truck from the Pentagon attack, military honors, and steel recovered from the World Trade Center site.
  Before the steel arrives in Civic Center Park, it will be presented to the public at the Broncos regular season opening game against the Carolina
  
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• Crews Contain Green Fire In Dinosaur National Monument

  02-09-2016 22:28
  
  DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT (CBS4) — Fire crews have contained the Green Fire that started Thursday afternoon in Dinosaur National Monument.The fire was reported about 4:30 p.m. Thursday. The Green River Campground was evacuated on Thursday evening. The campground and road reopened Friday afternoon.The fire burned quickly through grass and sagebrush as it was fanned by strong winds. The fire burned about 184 acres.The Quarry Visitor Center and Dinosaur Quarry Exhibit Hall were not affected
  
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• Eastwood Movie ‘Sully’ To Open Telluride Film Festival

  02-09-2016 22:09
  
  TELLURIDE, Colo. (AP/CBS4) — Clint Eastwood’s movie about the “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot will get its world premiere during the Telluride Film Festival.
  “Sully,” starring Tom Hanks as pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, will open the 43rd annual festival on Friday night.
  Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
  Sullenberger is a graduate of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and the University
  
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• Back Us So We Can Block Clinton Agenda, Say Some Republicans

  02-09-2016 22:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s just a trickle now, but some Republicans are urging people to back GOP congressional candidates because they’d constrain Hillary Clinton’s agenda should she be elected president this November. That includes a Colorado Republican congressman.
  Republicans don’t want to be blamed for prematurely giving up on Donald Trump, the party’s presidential nominee, for fear of alienating his supporters. But with Trump lagging in most polls and Electi
  
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• Firefighters Rescue Cats, Dogs In Carbon Monoxide Call

  02-09-2016 21:35
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – Residents of an apartment building in Boulder remain evacuated due to a carbon monoxide leak.
  At about 9 a.m. on Friday Boulder Fire-Rescue responded to the Canyon Apartments after a woman reported she was feeling extremely sick.
  When firefighters arrived, the level of carbon monoxide was 449 parts per million. Normally fresh air contains 0 PPM molecules.
  Boulder Fire-Rescue responds to carbon monoxide poisoning at Canyon Apartments: https://t.co/OorBnqdBK
  
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• Broncos Rookie Safety Will Parks Says He’s Made The Cut

  02-09-2016 21:30
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Safety Will Parks says he has made the Broncos final roster.
  Parks, the sixth-rounder out of Arizona, has played well in training camp as well as in the preseason games this summer.
  The rookie sent out a tweet early Friday afternoon saying “God is good.. Officially a Bronco..”
  God is good.. Officially a Bronco.. #BroncoCountry
  — Parks Place (@PhillyWill11) September 2, 2016
  
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• Coffman Suspects VA Hospital Investigation Uncovered Corruption

  02-09-2016 21:13
  
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A congressional committee is taking action to get their hands on a report that looked into what went wrong during construction at the build site of a VA Hospital.
  The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department completed an internal investigation into what went wrong in Aurora more than a year ago, but they have repeatedly refused to release thousands of pages of findings and documentation, even to Congress.
  The hospital is four years overdue and more than $1 billion over budge
  
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• Ex-Stanford Swimmer Leaves Jail After Serving Half His Term

  02-09-2016 20:52
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Brock Turner, whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University sparked national outcry, was released from jail Friday morning after serving half his six-month sentence.
  The one-time Olympic hopeful swimmer walked out the main entrance of the Santa Clara County jail shortly after 6 a.m. PDT. Turner, who kept his head down and didn’t acknowledge the media, was carrying a large packet of hate mail sent to him during his
  
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• Man Who Testified As DNA Expert Defends His Reputation

  02-09-2016 20:34
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – A man who has testified in several high-profile criminal trials around the country as a DNA expert has been discredited in a Denver trial.
  Richard Eikelenboom says it’s almost expected that his qualifications would be called into question by attorneys, but he calls what happened on the stand in Denver ludicrous.
  “What happens here is not truth finding. They just want to find something to throw mud at you,” Eikelenboom told CBS4.
  Richard Eikelenboom (credit
  
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• Stolen Car Found As Police Investigate Homicide

  02-09-2016 19:42
  
  ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Police in Adams County are investigating the discovery of a man’s body in the front lawn of a home as a homicide.
  The body was found on Quivas Street on Thursday morning, and sources tell CBS4 he was shot to death.The shooting could be a result of an invasion at a nearby marijuana grow house.
  Police executed a search warrant at a home on Raritan Street nearby as part of their investigation.
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  Sources told CBS4 on Friday a stolen car was found
  
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• Suspect In Fatal Stabbing Remains At Scene, Is Arrested

  02-09-2016 19:17
  
  BRIGHTON, Colo. (CBS4) – A man was found dead Thursday night and the person suspected of stabbing him  is in custody.
  (credit: CBS)
  Deputies in Adams County were called to a Family Dollar store at 7067 Pecos Street at approximately 5 p.m. That’s where they found a victim with stab wounds.
  They say the stabbing suspect never left the scene of the crime. He allegedly remained inside the Family Dollar, and surveillance cameras helped deputies identify him.
  The victim died after bei
  
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• Chase Across 3 Kansas Counties Ends In Colorado Man’s Arrest

  02-09-2016 18:53
  
  SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Colorado man has been arrested after a law enforcement chase across three Kansas counties.
  The Hays Post reports that the driver told authorities he was trying to get to Oklahoma to see his mother before facing prison time in Colorado, where he has two outstanding felony arrest warrants.
  Saline County Sheriff’s Captain Brent Melander says the chase started Wednesday after deputies stopped the vehicle, which had an expired Colorado temporary tag.
  
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• Police: Driver Who Crashed Into Day Care Was Involved In Hit & Run

  02-09-2016 18:40
  
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Police have released new details about the driver who crashed into a day care in Aurora on Wednesday afternoon.Bright Stars Child Care (credit: Aurora Police)
  Officers say the man had been involved in a hit & run and was speeding away from police when he lost control and crashed into the building at East Yale Avenue and South Parker Road.
  Two children and an employee had minor injuries.
  Neco Benson (credit: Aurora Police)
  Neco Benson is facing charges including r
  
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• 49ers QB Kaepernick Blasted For Anti-Police Socks

  02-09-2016 18:16
  
  SAN DIEGO, Calif. (The Sports Xchange) – The head of the national police organization blasted San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the NFL on Thursday after learning that Kaepernick had worn socks that display cartoon pigs wearing police hats.
  (credit: CBS)
  “It’s just ridiculous that the same league that prohibits the Dallas (Cowboys) football club from honoring the slain officers in their community with their uniforms stands silent when Kaepernick is dishonorin
  
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• Crews Fight Blaze At Dinosaur National Monument

  02-09-2016 17:33
  
  DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT (AP) — Fire crews are fighting a blaze that closed a campground on the Utah side of Dinosaur National Monument.
  Authorities said Friday the visitor’s center remains open as crews work on the 184-acre blaze that started Thursday afternoon near the monument’s Green River Campground.
  Campers were evacuated to a nearby site as the fire burned quickly through grass and sagebrush at the monument located along the Colorado border.
  The road through the monume
  
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• ‘Willy Wonka,’ ‘Blazing Saddles’ In Theaters This Weekend

  02-09-2016 17:22
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — AMC Theaters nationwide are bringing a few of Gene Wilder’s most beloved films back to theaters this weekend.
  The theater chain announced Thursday that audiences can catch “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Blazing Saddles” this Saturday and Sunday evening at 55 participating AMC locations.
  Wilder died Sunday at age 83 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Fans worldwide have mourned since the news broke Monday.
  This is
  
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• Colorado Obesity Rate Remained Nation’s Lowest Last Year

  02-09-2016 17:08
  
  DENVER (CBS4/AP) – New government data shows Colorado adults have the lowest obesity rate in the country once again.
  An advocacy group, the Trust for America’s Health, released a report Thursday analyzing data collected by a federal government telephone survey.
  Colorado is the skinniest state, with adult obesity rates just over 20 percent. That rate didn’t change from 2014.
  The 2015 survey found adult obesity rates fell in Minnesota, Montana, New York and Ohio in 2015. That was
  
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• Bears Swim, Rummage Through Garbage While Roaming LA Suburb

  02-09-2016 16:57
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Three black bears treated a suburban California neighborhood like a resort, taking a dip in a backyard pool and helping themselves to a dumpster buffet.
  The trio — two cubs and their mother — wandered out of the San Gabriel mountains and into the foothill city of Pasadena on Thursday afternoon.They ventured through several backyards and jumped into at least two pools before being chased out of the area by a brave dog.
  State Fish and Wildlife spokesman An
  
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• Moreno Blog: ‘Some Of My Best Runs Have Been With Others’

  02-09-2016 16:47
  
  By Britt Moreno
  “Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” –Mattie Stepanek
  (Credit CBS)
  I use to be fully content running solo. It’s nice to run at my own pace, wrestle with my own thoughts, recite pretend speeches over in my head (yes, I do this), mull over relationships or think nothing at all. However, I am learning as I attempt to run a little longer than I have in the past, my motivation motor is puttering
  
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• A Taste Of Colorado, Other Events To Make Weekend Traffic Tough Downtown

  02-09-2016 16:42
  
  By Joel Hillan
  DENVER (CBS4) – A Taste of Colorado has shut down quite a few roads near Civic Center Park in downtown Denver including both directions of Colfax Avenue, Broadway, Sherman Street as well as Bannock Street, 14th Avenue, 15th Avenue and 16th Street.
  The festival opens to the public at 11 a.m. and closures will remain in place until 6 a.m. Tuesday.Not only do we have A Taste of Colorado, but also the Rocky Mountain Showdown Friday night at Sports Authority Field at Mile High, a
  
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• 1 Injured In Natural Gas Explosion At Home

  02-09-2016 16:32
  
  WINTER PARK, Colo. (CBS4) – One person was badly hurt in a natural gas explosion in Winter Park.
  The explosion happened at a home on Fir Drive on Thursday. It started a small fire, but the flames didn’t spread.
  (credit: CBS)
  The person who was hurt was taken to University of Colorado Hospital’s burn unit.
  The cause of the explosion is being investigated.
  
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• Ready To Play: Giants’ Jay Bromley Talks New Teammates, How He Gets Ready For Sundays

  02-09-2016 16:31
  
  It’s a long and tough road to get to the NFL for most players, but it might be an even more difficult task to get yourself mentally and physically “Ready To Play” in the NFL week in and week out. As we work our way towards the start of the NFL season, we’re speaking with a different NFL player each week and getting a first-hand account from them on how they get themselves ready for all of the rigors that come with competing at the NFL level. Here’s Ne
  
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• Latest Forecast: Storms Could Bring Heavy Rain & Hail

  02-09-2016 16:14
  
  By Lauren Whitney
  DENVER (CBS4) – Our holiday weekend kicks off with the chance for some bigger storms across Colorado. Today, storms could roll through the Denver area midday, and should clear by the evening. Denver will be a bustling place tonight with the Rocky Mountain Showdown, The Taste of Colorado, and the Rockies playing at home against the Diamondbacks. The storms should clear by the evening hours, but they are capable of producing some heavy rain and hail. The storms chug east th
  
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• Dying CO. man just watns to meet Peyton

  02-09-2016 16:07
  
  Two months ago, a man on the Western Slope got to witness the birth of his son.       
  
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• Ex-Subway Pitchman In Suit: Victim’s Parents To Blame

  02-09-2016 15:45
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Subway’s former pitchman imprisoned for child pornography and sex abuse argued in a Thursday court filing that the parents of one of his female victims are to blame for what he describes as her “destructive behaviors.”
  Jared Fogle’s motion filed in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis also argues that the parents may be responsible for the girl’s injuries alleged in a civil lawsuit against him.
  The victim was a subject in some of the child p
  
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• Rockies, Arenado Prepare For Series With Arizona

  02-09-2016 15:32
  
  The Colorado Rockies continue their nine-game homestand on Friday as they host the Arizona Diamondbacks for the opener of a three-game series.
  
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• Justice Sotomayor Declines To Talk Politics In Denver Visit

  02-09-2016 15:19
  
  DENVER (AP) – Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to talk about politics during a visit to a Denver university.
  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gives at talk. How cool!!! #Education pic.twitter.com/BznykbYeUg
  — Met Radio (@MetRadioDenver) September 2, 2016She instead on Thursday shared with students and faculty details of her life and rise to the nation’s highest court.
  The appearance at Metropolitan State University of Denver was one of several stops Soto
  
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• Hermine hits Florida coast, first hurricane in a decade to make landfall

  02-09-2016 13:13
  
  CARRABELLE, Fla. — Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend area early Friday as the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade, bringing soaking rain, high winds and thousands of power outages.
  The Category 1 storm hit just east of St. Marks around 1:30 a.m. EDT with winds around 80 mph, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Hermine later weakened to a tropical storm as it moved farther inland.
  Projected storm surges of up to 12 feet menaced a wid
  
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• The beauty and tragedy of “The Light Between Oceans”

  02-09-2016 09:00
  
  By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
  There is no misfortune too shattering for Derek Cianfrance it seems. The writer and director of “Blue Valentine,” ”The Place Beyond the Pines” and now, an adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel “The Light Between Oceans ” confidently strides into stories of little hope and painful circumstance, using pretty actors and even prettier settings to create sweeping milieus of human devastation.
  But where the dissolving marriage in &ld
  
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• “The 9th Life of Louis Drax”: a dark premise drowned in whimsy

  02-09-2016 09:00
  
  One star. Rated R.  108 minutes.
  A comatose boy communicates telepathically with his doctor in the mystery “The 9th Life of Louis Drax.” Adapted from a 2004 novel by Liz Jensen, the film is a benign departure for director Alexandre Aja, who specializes in such horror movies as the brutal 3-D remake of “Piranha.” Unfortunately, this film’s dark premise is drowned in whimsy and a forced childlike wonder.
  Plenty of movies feature precocious children, but Louis (Ai
  
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• You’ll never believe what this star of the cult film “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” does now

  02-09-2016 08:48
  
  By John Kelly, The Washington Post
  A razor-sharp chisel in hand, Zev Zalman “Z.Z.” Ludwick leans into the violin he is making and shaves off a sliver of wood. It curls up, a simulacrum of the Hasidic curls —  payot —  that hang on either side of his bearded face.
  Classical music plays over the radio in the basement workshop of his Silver Spring, Maryland, home. I ask Z.Z. what sort of music he used to listen to.
  “Scorpions, with their original guitarist, U
  
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• Sci-fi thriller “Morgan” centers on a genetically engineered child

  02-09-2016 08:48
  
  Two stars. Rated R.  91 minutes.
   
  There’s an ongoing argument that runs through much of the movie “Morgan.” Should the title character, a tomboyish slip of a thing in an ever-present hoodie, be referred to as a “she” or an “it”?
  Living in a glassed-in cage, on the other side of which Morgan’s keepers monitor their young charge —  only occasionally entering the cell for a brief interview —  the movie’s apparen
  
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• Broncos lose to Cardinals 38-17

  02-09-2016 08:32
  
  GLENDALE, ARIZ. – In defeat came plenty of Sunshine.       
  
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• Broncos Notes: What about Mark Sanchez?

  02-09-2016 08:22
  
  There are 22 players who the Denver Broncos must remove from their active roster in the next two days but any move involving quarterback Mark Sanchez will generate most of the attention.       
  
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• Gates East redevelopment approaches completion with sale of last major parcel to apartment developer

  02-09-2016 08:01
  
  The Denver PostGates East mapThe last major piece of the east side of the former Gates campus has been sold to an apartment developer with plans to add 400 residential units to the 30-acre redevelopment along South Broadway.
  San Francisco-based Carmel Partners closed Thursday on a 4.37-acreparcel due east of the new Sprouts Farmers Market at 201 E. Mississippi Ave.McKinnon and Associates, LLC was the seller.
  For McKinnon and Associates, which has been working on Gat
  
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• WATCH: Every Paxton Lynch throw from Week 4 of preseason

  02-09-2016 07:40
  
  It may not have been against the best the Cardinals had to offer, but Broncos quarterback Paxton Lynch had his first opportunity to showcase his talents through an entire game on Thursday.
  Lynch finished the game passing 13-of-22 for 214 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in a 38-17 loss to the Cardinals.
  Related ArticlesSeptember 1, 2016 Which Broncos hurt or helped their stock in the Cardinals preseason finale?September 1, 2016 PHOTOS: Broncos lose to Cardinals in final preseason gameS
  
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• Eagle Fire Chief terminated after reports he stole $120,000 from previous job

  02-09-2016 07:31
  
  Sterling Journal-AdvocateKurt Vogel, Sterling Fire Department chief Oct. 2010The board of the Greater Eagle Fire Protection District terminated its jailed Chief Kurt Vogel on Thursday.
  Vogel was arrested last month on charges he stole more than $120,000 from his former fire department in Sterling. Vogel, who was hired by the Eagle district in April, was placed on unpaid leave following his Aug. 11 arrest. After a meeting in executive session to discuss the chief’s status with the district&
  
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• As Teddy Bridgewater preps for surgery, Vikings assess QB options

  02-09-2016 07:31
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — While Teddy Bridgewater is weighing options for surgery, the Minnesota Vikings are scrutinizing the possibilities for another quarterback.
  Bridgewater visited team headquarters on Thursday, just two days after the freak non-contact injury to his left knee sent him to a hospital by ambulance and devastated a team that was counting on its beloved leader to help make a legitimate push for the Super Bowl.
  About 20 players gathered around Bridgewater in the training room for encou
  
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• Iowa officer disciplined after yanking suspect’s dreadlocks

  02-09-2016 07:17
  
  Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office via APhis April 19, 2016, photo provided by the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office in Waterloo, Iowa, shows Montavis Keller. Police video obtained by The Associated Press on Aug. 30, 2016, shows a police officer yanking on Keller’s dreadlocks and hitting him on the back of the head after Keller led officers on a dangerous high-speed chase in Waterloo.WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — An angry white police officer repeatedly yanked on the dreadlocks of a h
  
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• Barkley leads Cardinals win over Broncos

  02-09-2016 07:05
  
  Matt Barkley, trying to hang on to Arizona's No. 3 quarterback job, outshone Denver rookie Paxton Lynch in the Cardinals' 38-17 victory over the Broncos in the teams' preseason finale on Thursday night.        
  
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• Changes outside the home of the Broncos

  02-09-2016 07:04
  
  You'll notice some changes outside the home of the Broncos.       
  
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• Taylor Grabs 2 TD Passes From Lynch In Loss To Cardinals

  02-09-2016 06:55
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Matt Barkley, trying to hang on to Arizona’s No. 3 quarterback job, outshone Denver rookie Paxton Lynch in the Cardinals’ 38-17 victory over the Broncos in the teams’ preseason finale on Thursday night.
  As the starters for both teams took the night off, Barkley, in his fourth NFL season out of USC, completed 20 of 29 passes for 269 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions.
  Quarterback Paxton Lynch #12 of the Denver Broncos drops back to pass d
  
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• Lynch & Taylor Hook Up Twice For TDs In Broncos Loss To Cardinals

  02-09-2016 06:55
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Matt Barkley, trying to hang on to Arizona’s No. 3 quarterback job, outshone Denver rookie Paxton Lynch in the Cardinals’ 38-17 victory over the Broncos in the teams’ preseason finale on Thursday night.
  As the starters for both teams took the night off, Barkley, in his fourth NFL season out of USC, completed 20 of 29 passes for 269 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions.
  Quarterback Paxton Lynch #12 of the Denver Broncos drops back to pass d
  
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• Bronco at Cardinals game recap

  02-09-2016 06:39
  
         
  
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• Jordan ‘Sunshine’ Taylor A True Bright Spot In Final Preseason Game

  02-09-2016 06:27
  
  PHOENIX (CBS4) – It sure seems like Broncos wide receiver Jordan Taylor earned a spot on the final roster after his monster game against the Arizona Cardinals.
  Arizona Cardinals cornerback Brandon Williams (26) wraps up Denver Broncos wide receiver Jordan Taylor (87) after a catch during the first quarter September 1, 2016 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. (Photo By John Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
  Taylor, whose nickname is “Sunshine,” hauled in four cat
  
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• CBS4 Investigation Finds Disparities In Teacher Evaluations

  02-09-2016 06:00
  
  By Mark Ackerman
  DENVER (CBS4) – Where a teacher works plays a significant role in how they are evaluated, according to a CBS4 data analysis.
  CBS4 obtained teacher evaluation statistics from seven Front Range school districts and found disparities in the percentages of teachers rated effective and the number of teachers losing tenure.
  This year, Colorado’s new Teacher Effectiveness Law, known as Senate Bill 191, took effect. SB 191 makes school districts put teachers in one of four c
  
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