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• Lockheed Martin To Move Hundreds Of Jobs To Colorado

  25-02-2017 23:51
  
  LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – Lockheed Martin is moving hundreds of jobs to Colorado.
  The ballistic missile program will relocate from California to Colorado and Florida, transferring 650 jobs.
  The transition will happen over the next eight years. It’s part of an effort to cut costs and consolidate some of Lockheed Martin’s facilities.
  
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• Crash Sets Back Mother Needing Specialty Van For Her Daughter

  25-02-2017 23:25
  
  By Kelly Werthmann
  DENVER (CBS4) – A five-car crash totaled a young mother’s car last month and crushed her hopes of buying a specialty van for her special-needs daughter.
  “I guess it’s just really hard when you’re a single mom and can’t provide for your child,” Jessica Johnson told CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann.
  Johnson is a single mother raising her daughter Ava in Denver. Ava was born with a long list of health complications and she spent her first mon
  
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• Warrant Issued For Deputy In Poaching Felonies

  25-02-2017 22:18
  
  KIOWA, Colo. (AP/CBS4) – A nationwide warrant has been issued for a former Colorado sheriff’s deputy wanted for poaching deer near Elbert.
  Former Elbert County deputy Steve Few was arrested Dec. 20 in Georgia on multiple felonies following a citizen’s report of illegally-harvested deer.
  Authorities say Few bonded out of custody in Georgia but has not returned to Colorado for a court appearance.
  Charges against him include two counts of destruction of wildlife, trespassing, shoo
  
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• Broncos hire new assistant line coach

  25-02-2017 22:17
  
  KUSA—Matt Paradis is about to become reunited with his college coach.       
  
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• Colorado ski area shuts down

  25-02-2017 20:10
  
  A western Colorado ski area has voluntarily shut down after state inspectors found maintenance problems and operational issues.       
  
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• 1 Dead, 1 Critical In LoDo Shooting

  25-02-2017 18:08
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Police in Denver are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred in LoDo early Saturday morning.
  According to police, the shooting occurred just before 2 a.m. at 15th and Market streets.
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  One person was killed and another was transported to the hospital and is listed in critical condition.
  No arrests have been made and no suspect information has been released.
  No names have been released.
  
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• Slow Warm Up Gets Denver Back In The 30s

  25-02-2017 16:59
  
  By Dave Aguilera
  DENVER (CBS4) – Our last weekend of February will see the return of sunshine and drier air. Temperatures over eastern Colorado will still be on the chilly side but, should rise above freezing.  The Denver metro area will keep the sunshine going through Monday when temps get back into the 40s.
  For the mountains skies will be mostly cloudy and there will be a return of snow showers late Saturday  into Sunday morning with most areas seeing 1 to 2 inches of snow
  
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• Latest Forecast: Slow Warm Up Gets Denver Back In The 30s

  25-02-2017 16:59
  
  By Dave Aguilera
  DENVER (CBS4) – Our last weekend of February will see the return of sunshine and drier air. Temperatures over eastern Colorado will still be on the chilly side but, should rise above freezing.  The Denver metro area will keep the sunshine going through Monday when temps get back into the 40s.
  For the mountains skies will be mostly cloudy and there will be a return of snow showers Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning with most areas seeing 1 to 2 inches of snow.
  
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• Record-high suicide deaths in county

  25-02-2017 06:09
  
  Larimer County continues to face a grim death trend that doesn't seem likely to ease any time soon.       
  
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• Report shows how man survived avalanche

  25-02-2017 06:06
  
  Determination and quick thinking saved a man caught in an avalanche that took his friend'       
  
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• Harris Scores 25 Points In Nuggets’ 129-109 Win Over Nets

  25-02-2017 06:02
  
  DENVER (AP) — Gary Harris scored a career-high 25 points and the Denver Nuggets bounced back from successive losses to beat Brooklyn 129-109 on Friday night, handing the inept Nets their 15th loss in a row.
  Wilson Chandler had 24 points and Danilo Gallinari added 20 for the Nuggets, who snapped a six-game losing streak to the Nets.
  Jeremy Lin was back in the starting lineup for the Nets after missing the previous 26 games because of a strained left hamstring, but Brooklyn could not pull ou
  
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• NSCD hosts fundraiser for disabled

  25-02-2017 05:55
  
  When he's not not figuring out logistics for the Wells Fargo Ski Cup, Erik Petersen is teaching disabled athletes how to ski.       
  
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• Alleged Drunk Driver Hits, Critically Injures Little Girl

  25-02-2017 05:55
  
  WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) – A little girl is in the hospital after an alleged drunk driver hit the mini van she was in.
  “Yesterday we just found out that she is probably never going to walk again,” Sandra Acuna, Jamille’s mother, told CBS4’s Karen Morfitt.
  Jamille Acuna (credit: Acuna family)
  Acuna says the suspect came out of nowhere, so fast she doesn’t remember the collision that sent them flying into a fence.
  Last month’s crash left her in a neck bra
  
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• Billy Barr, a legend in Crested Butte

  25-02-2017 05:54
  
  It’s hard to live life unnoticed in a town as small as Crested Butte. One man who chose to follow a path to obscurity 44 years ago ended up a local legend.       
  
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• Sheriff Sued Again For Fatal Shootout That Killed Deputy

  25-02-2017 05:15
  
  By Jeff Todd
  PARK COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – One year after Corporal Nate Carrigan was killed while serving an eviction notice, a former employee of the Park County Sheriff’s Department sued the county and the sheriff.
  Welles Tonjes was a Senior Sargent in February of 2016, a federal lawsuit says he was illegally demoted three ranks before he quit and the cause was the fatal shooting of Carrigan.
  Nate Carrigan (credit: CBS)
  Tonjes is suing the Park County Commissioners, Sheriff Fred Wege
  
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• The keeper of the Denver bison herd

  25-02-2017 04:17
  
  Matt Brown is the operations supervisor for Denver Mountain Parks and caretaker for Denver’s herd of 31 bison at Genesee Park.       
  
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• Did you notice the fee on paint?

  25-02-2017 04:08
  
  Our Next Question is about a fee you may not have realized you've been paying for more than 18 months.       
  
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• Denver's ICE/Sheriff's Dept. situation

  25-02-2017 03:44
  
  Bill O'Reilly said Denver has blood on its hands after a man flagged for deportation has been named as a murder suspect.        
  
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• New Topgolf Driving Range Hits A Hazard

  25-02-2017 03:38
  
  By Rick Sallinger
  THORNTON, Colo. (CBS4) – A lawsuit has at least temporarily delayed the construction of massive golf driving range in Thornton.
  The facility is to be built by a company called Topgolf.
  Its concept has turned the normally mundane task of practicing a golf swing into a party. It has bars, a restaurant and three levels of golf driving bays.
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  With some 30 Topgolfs in two countries the company has its eyes on Thornton.
  But some homeowners near 136th Avenue and Was
  
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• DU professor's been teaching 50 years

  25-02-2017 03:26
  
  Can we just take a moment to recognize Ved Nanda, international law professor at the University of Denver?       
  
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• R Line light rail train opens today

  25-02-2017 03:25
  
  The Regional Transportation District’s $687 million R Line light-rail train route through Aurora will hold its grand opening today at 10 a.m. at the Iliff Station.       
  
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• RTD Opens New Light Rail Line

  25-02-2017 03:19
  
  By Melissa Garcia
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – The newest line on RTD’s light rail system, the R-line, is up and running.
  The route runs from Lone tree along I-225 through Aurora, eventually connecting to the A-line to Denver International Airport and to downtown Denver.
  The R-line runs 22-miles, connecting northeast Denver with southeast Denver through Aurora.
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  After years of planning and construction, the line is finally open.
  “A lot of people say it would be a cold da
  
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• Not All Republican Lawmakers Are Avoiding Town Halls

  25-02-2017 02:44
  
  JOHNSTOWN, Colo. (CBS4) – One of Colorado’s Republican leaders held two town hall meetings recently.
  Representative Ken Buck met with only Democrats in two separate meetings.
  He says he reached out to Democratic leaders in his district and asked them to invite others from their party to attend.
  Representative Ken Buck (credit: CBS)
  “It’s been very beneficial. Both sides learned a lot of good information about healthcare to take back to D.C.,” Buck said.
  Buck says he
  
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• Sen. Gardner Town Hall Held Without Him

  25-02-2017 02:36
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – A town hall meeting with Colorado Senator Cory Gardner was held without him.
  Eight organizers set up the symbolic meeting in Denver’s Byers Middle School, and a people filled the gymnasium Friday night.They complain that Gardner won’t hold a face-to-face town hall to hear their concerns about healthcare, the environment, and other issues.
  While they say Gardner’s staff was polite, he denied their requests to hear from him.#NEW: Statement from @SenCoryGardn
  
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• Broncos reel in comp picks, not Mitchell

  25-02-2017 02:36
  
  KUSA—They hooked a, you know, fish. The prized defensive lineman, though, got away.       
  
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• Snow Slowly Ends, Temperatures Stay Chilly All Weekend

  25-02-2017 02:33
  
  By Ed Greene
  DENVER (CBS4) – Friday continued with cloudy skies, flurries or snow showers and cold temperatures and a high only reaching 26 degrees  dominate the weather along the Front Range on Friday.  Those conditions continue overnight but skies should become partly cloudy early tomorrow.  Saturday will see those partly cloudy skies but not a lot of warming as highs still stay about 10 degrees below normal, but a little warmer than Friday as the high reaches in
  
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• Dog Shot During Robbery Struggling To Survive

  25-02-2017 02:17
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A dog that was shot during a robbery is struggling to survive.
  The robbery happened about 8:30 p.m. Thursday near the Colorado Springs downtown neighborhood on East Vermijo Avenue.
  During the break-in, the homeowner was not hurt but the robber shot one of the two dogs at the home before running away.
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  Once police arrived they searched for the robber but were not able to find him.
   
  
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• Criminals Using Social Media In ‘Sextortion’

  25-02-2017 01:49
  
  By Andrea Flores
  DENVER (CBS4) – Denver Police Department is investigating three cases of extortion for online sex, or “sextortion,” all reported within the last week.
  “This type of scam isn’t new, however to see three cases within a week’s time is definitely a spike,” said DPD Spokesperson Doug Schepman.
  DPD’s Doug Schepman talks with CBS4’s Andrea Flores (credit: CBS)
  Schepman says criminals are using the wide reach of social media and webs
  
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• Another Whole Foods On The Chopping Block

  25-02-2017 00:46
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Another Whole Foods store is set to close.
  This one is located at 11th Avenue and Ogden Street in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
  According to BusinessDen, the store will close this fall.
  It’ll shut when the new Union Station location opens at 17th Street and Wewatta Street.
  A Whole Foods spokesperson says employees of the Capitol Hill location will transfer to the new location.
  Whole Foods blames soft sales on the closure of two other stores.
  
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• Pipeline Protest Area Cleared, But Area Far From Normal

  25-02-2017 00:33
  
  CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Authorities this week cleared the last holdouts from a large Dakota Access pipeline protest camp on federal land in North Dakota, but it will be a while before the region returns to normal.
  There’s tons of debris to be cleared. A main highway bridge remains closed. Hundreds of protesters are still in the area. The pipeline operator is rushing to complete construction and says oil could flow within 10 days. Looming over it all is a still-unresolved court battl
  
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• NASA Considering Adding Crew To New ‘Megarocket’

  25-02-2017 00:20
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is weighing the risk of adding astronauts to the first flight of its new megarocket, designed to eventually send crews to Mars.
  The space agency’s human exploration chief said Friday that his boss and the Trump administration asked for the feasibility study. The objective is to see what it would take to speed up a manned mission; under the current plan, astronauts wouldn’t climb aboard until 2021— at best.
  The Space Launch System, known as
  
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• CDE Missing Background Checks For Hundreds Of Teachers

  25-02-2017 00:06
  
  By Mark Ackerman
  DENVER (CBS4)– The Colorado Department of Education has contacted roughly 1,900 veteran teachers and asked them to resubmit their fingerprints. A 2015 federal audit found thousands of teacher files were missing the mandated fingerprints and background checks.
  In a statement, CDE says the “reason the records went missing is unknown” but says something likely went wrong in 2004 when the state law requiring background checks was updated.
  CDE estimates 3,000 active
  
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• Is Exercise Killing Your Sex Drive?

  25-02-2017 00:00
  
  By Dr. Dave Hnida
  (CBS4) -It seems like we are always telling you to exercise, exercise, and then exercise some more. But is too much of a good thing putting the damper on your sex drive?
  It may be, at least according to new research published in the Journal Medicine & Science In Sports And Exercise.
  More than 1000 men were surveyed in an attempt to determine the effects of exercise on libido. We know that regular workouts (and a healthy waistline) tend to be more conducive to a healthy
  
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