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• Mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick killed in boat accident

  27-05-2017 23:56
  
  NEW YORK — Bonnie Kalanick, the mother of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has died in a boating accident. Kalanick’s father, Donald, was injured and is in serious condition.
  The ride-hailing company says Saturday that the accident took place Friday night in Fresno, California.
  The couple, in their early 70s, have been longtime boaters. In a memo to Uber staff, Liane Hornsey, the chief human resources officer, called the incident an “unthinkable tragedy.” She wrote that “e
  
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• Underdog Cavaliers insist they have plenty of bite for NBA Finals

  27-05-2017 23:55
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Vegas is betting against them and the bookies are hardly alone.
  Let’s be honest, not many are giving the Cleveland Cavaliers much of a chance in the NBA Finals. They may be defending champions and they may have LeBron James, but against Golden State, they are definite underdogs.
  Just don’t try to tell them that.
  “The whole underdog thing is funny to me, because yeah, at the end of the day we are defending our title,” Cavs forward Kevin Love said
  
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• Gas Well Leak Capped, Residents Allowed To Return To Homes

  27-05-2017 22:20
  PEETZ, Colo. (CBS4) – Workers mitigated a leaking natural gas well near Peetz Saturday afternoon.
  A spokesperson with the East Cheyenne Gas Storage company says the leaking well was “successfully shut-in” at approximately 1 p.m.
  Kyle Moulton of the Logan County Office of Emergency Management said residents were notified via Reverse 9-1-1 that roads were being re-opened and they could return to their homes. They had been evacuated since Thursday evening when a safety device fail
  
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• Gregg Allman Of The Allman Brothers Band Dies At Age 69

  27-05-2017 22:14
  
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Music legend Gregg Allman, whose bluesy vocals and soulful touch on the Hammond B-3 organ helped propel the Allman Brothers Band to superstardom and spawn Southern rock, died Saturday, a publicist said. He was 69.
  Allman died Saturday at his home in Savannah, Georgia, publicist Ken Weinstein said.
  Allman had cancelled some 2016 tour dates, announcing on Aug. 5 that he was “under his doctor’s care at the Mayo Clinic” due to “serious health issues
  
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• Wainwright Has Had The Right Stuff Against Rockies

  27-05-2017 21:47
  
  DENVER (The Sports Xchange) – Adam Wainwright will try to continue his domination over the Colorado Rockies and his success at Coors Field when the St. Louis Cardinals try to even their series on Saturday.
  The Rockies walloped the Cardinals 10-0 in the series opener on Friday night. It was Colorado’s most lopsided win and St. Louis’ most lopsided loss of the season.
  Wainwright (4-3, 4.81 ERA) will be opposed by rookie left-hander Kyle Freeland (5-2, 3.31), who will face the Car
  
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• Police: Infant Dies While Woman Sleeps For 18 Hours

  27-05-2017 21:31
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – A 28-year-old woman faces felony child abuse charges following the death of her 3-month-old son.
  According to a news release from Fort Collins Police Services, officers were called to a residence in the 1000 block of Garfield Street at 5:53 p.m. Tuesday. Police say Mandi Woodall claimed to have woken from a two-hour nap to find her infant unresponsive.
  Mandi Woodall (credit: Fort Collins Police Services)
  “Upon further investigation, it was determined that
  
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• Immigrant Arrests And Deportations Up In Colorado, Wyoming

  27-05-2017 21:23
  
  DENVER (AP) – Significantly more immigrants were arrested and deported from Colorado and Wyoming in the first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency than during the same period in 2016.
  The biggest surge was in arrests of immigrants suspected of residing illegally in the country without a criminal record.
  One hundred thirty-four individuals were detained between President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and the end of his first 100 days in office, April 29.
  That figure is more
  
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• Lamborn Says EPA May Reconsider Colorado Storm Water Suit

  27-05-2017 21:17
  
  DENVER (AP) – U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop a lawsuit against Colorado Springs over contaminated runoff that affects Pueblo County and downstream agriculture.
  The Denver Post reports that Lamborn has spoken twice with EPA chief Scott Pruitt about the suit, which was filed in 2016 by the EPA and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
  Pueblo County joined the suit this year.
  Rep. Doug Lamborn (credit: CBS)
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• Car that crashed into Parker store, killing 12-year-old girl, still under investigation

  27-05-2017 21:02
  
  The Parker Police Department is still investigating an April 29 incident in which a car crashed into a Parker store, injuring seven and killing 12-year-old Rylie Guentensberger, who passed away Friday.
  Related Articles Seven injured — one critically — after vehicle crashes through Parker running store Girl still in ICU after car struck her while she was shopping with her mom inside a Parker running store 12-year-old Rylie Guentensberger, injured when car crashed into Parker stor
  
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• Reckless Hunter Found Guilty Thanks To 2 Other Concerned Hunters

  27-05-2017 20:40
  
  BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (CBS4) – A Northglenn man has been found guilty of hunting in a careless manner after failing to locate wounded game.
  According to the district attorney’s office in Summit County, a jury found Mark R. Masker, 48, guilty after a two-day jury trial for the incident that occurred in November of 2015.
  “Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officer Elissa Knox received a phone call from concerned hunting guides about defendant Masker, who had been observed on the National
  
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• Computer outage grounds hundreds of British Airways flights in London

  27-05-2017 20:39
  
  LONDON (AP) British Airways canceled all flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.
  The airline said it was suffering a “major IT systems failure” around the world. It didn’t say what was causing the problem but said there was no evidence of a cyberattack.
  BA operates hundreds of flights from the two London airports on a typical day and both
  
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• Trump calls trip “home run” as Kushner questions left unanswered

  27-05-2017 20:26
  
  By Margaret Talev and Jennifer Jacobs, The Washington Post
  President Donald Trump declared his first foreign trip a “home run” and said he’d rallied the world’s governments to stand strong against terrorism, despite a series of stark differences that emerged between the U.S. and its allies.
  “I am now more hopeful than ever that nations of many faiths and from many religions and from many regions all over can join together in a common cause,” Trump said as he s
  
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• Arrest Made In Suspected Abuse Death Of Rocky Ford Infant

  27-05-2017 20:00
  ROCKY FORD, Colo. (AP) – The boyfriend of a woman whose infant daughter died in the southern Colorado town of Rocky Ford has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death.
  KKTV reports that 20-year-old Ryan Casias was being held in Otero County Jail on $150,000 bond.
  Ryan Casias (credit: Rocky Ford Police)
  One-year-old Jayleianna Rivas Trujillo was found unresponsive May 20 in a home shared by Casias and the baby’s mother, Maryah.
  A coroner’s report found the bab
  
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• Valor Christian beats Thompson Valley, advances to 4A state championship game

  27-05-2017 19:58
  
  First baseman Joel Pierce’s one-out single drove in the tie-breaking run in the top of the seventh, and Valor Christian scored twice more in the inning to take a 8-5 victory over Thompson Valley in the state Class 4A baseball tournament at Metro State Saturday morning.
  Third baseman Jonathan Boulaphinh’s two-run double gave the Eagles breathing room.
  The win moved Valor Christian into the championship game against Evergreen. That was scheduled for a 12:30 p.m. start, but after two li
  
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• Town leader to step down 5 years after Sandy Hook shooting

  27-05-2017 19:56
  
  NEWTOWN, Conn. — The woman in Newtown’s highest elected office has announced she will step down, five years after she helped lead the community through the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
  Pat Llodra said her decision was a difficult one. The 75-year-old Republican will not seek a fifth term in November.
  She says her love of the job never waned, even when the town was devastated and overwhelmed after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary Schoo
  
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• $10,000 reward offered after fireworks set ablaze in Atlanta store

  27-05-2017 19:49
  
  ATLANTA — Authorities are offering a $10,000 reward in hopes of catching teenagers suspected of igniting a fireworks display inside a grocery store in Atlanta, sending shoppers fleeing and filling the store with smoke.
  Investigators tell WSB-TV (http://2wsb.tv/2qhRD91 ) that two teens were caught on surveillance video using a lighter to set fire to the display inside the Publix on the city’s south side Thursday night, prompting everyone inside to be evacuated.
  Atlanta Fire Rescue spo
  
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• British Airways Cancels All Flights From Heathrow, Gatwick

  27-05-2017 19:48
  LONDON (AP) – British Airways says it is canceling all of its flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports for the rest of the day because of a “major IT system failure.”
  BA has not said what is causing the computer problem, but says it has no evidence of a cyberattack.
  The airline had earlier suspended flights up to 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) because the two airports had become severely congested.
  (credit: britishsairways.com)
  The global computer failure has caused misery
  
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• Some women-only screenings planned for “Wonder Woman”

  27-05-2017 19:24
  
  NEW YORK — Take a seat, “Thor.”
  Scattered plans among Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas to host women-only screenings of the upcoming “Wonder Woman” movie have produced both support and some grumbling about gender discrimination.
  Various locations have taken to social media in response, including the operators of the Brooklyn theater promising on Twitter to funnel proceeds from women-only screenings in early June to Planned Parenthood. And by women only, they mean staff, too
  
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• Trump says he’ll decide on Paris climate deal next week

  27-05-2017 16:49
  
  TAORMINA, Sicily — President Donald Trump says he’ll make a final decision on whether the U.S. will stay in the Paris climate agreement next week.
  Trump’s surprise announcement, in the form of a tweet on the final day of his lengthy international trip, comes after Trump declined to commit to staying in a sweeping climate deal, refusing to give into intense international pressure.
  Earlier Saturday, the other six members of the G-7, a group of some of the world’s wealthiest
  
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• Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, dies at 89

  27-05-2017 16:36
  
  Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.
  His death, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, was announced Friday by his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of the MSNBC program “Morning Joe.”
  Like his predecessor Henry A. Kissinger, Brzezinski was a fore
  
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• Grab your raincoat: It’s expected to be a wet Memorial Day weekend

  27-05-2017 15:48
  
  As you set out to enjoy your three-day weekend, don’t forget a raincoat.
  Showers in the north are expected to drop into the metro area Saturday afternoon, bringing rain and a chance for thunderstorms with it, National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Dankers said.
  The metro area high is expected to be around 60 degrees Saturday, dropping to the low 40s at night. Temperatures should heat up Sunday and Monday with highs hanging around 70 degrees both days and with overnight lows expected i
  
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• Company Pays For Explosive Gas Detectors Following Another Death

  27-05-2017 08:18
  
  MEAD, Colo. (CBS4) – Investigators still are not releasing the name of the man killed in Thursday’s oil tank explosion in Mead.
  Oscar Lopez Velasquez, 32, was killed and three others were hurt in the blast.
  A spokesperson for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation says the workers were doing facility maintenance on the battery which was not in operation. All four tanks exploded.
  That fire wasn’t too far from the town of Firestone where two people were killed in a home explosion last mo
  
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• Pop-up park coming to downtown Denver

  27-05-2017 06:38
  
  The city of Denver will be conducting an experiment in the Ballpark neighborhood this summer.       
  
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• Former Railroad Worker Awarded Nearly $150,000 In Whistleblower Case

  27-05-2017 06:13
  DENVER (CBS4)– Federal safety officials have awarded a former railroad worker nearly $150,000 after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad retaliated against the employee for reporting safety issues with the railroad tracks in Denver.
  Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (credit: CBS)
  Railroad tracks are the second-leading cause of railway accidents after human error.
  Inspectors ride the rails daily looking for track problems, but the
  
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• Taxi Confession: 4 Crashes, 2 Pedestrians Injured, Still Behind The Wheel

  27-05-2017 06:10
  By Brian Maass
  DENVER (CBS4)– A CBS4 Investigation has found a Denver Yellow Cab driver, who has admitted to at least four crashes while on the job, two of them involving pedestrians, numerous moving violations and violations of Public Utilities and Yellow Cab regulations, is still driving a cab in Denver.
  “If Yellow Cab cares about the people riding in their cabs, they don’t allow someone like this to be driving at all,” said Alex Wilschke, an attorney suing the taxi com
  
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• Young girl hit by car passes away

  27-05-2017 06:09
  
  A post on the 'Rally for Rylie' Facebook page Friday evening confirmed that 12-year-old Rylie Guentensberger has passed away.       
  
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• Rockies Crush Cardinals, Stay In 1st Place

  27-05-2017 06:08
  DENVER (The Sports Xchange) – Coming off consecutive five-inning outings, Colorado Rockies rookie Antonio Senzatela responded with the best start of his young career Friday night.
  He pitched a career-high eight innings as the Rockies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-0 for their most lopsided victory this season.
  Senzatela gave up five hits and, thanks to four double-play grounders, got 15 outs on ground balls. He struck out three and didn’t issue a walk in his 98-pitch outing.
  Through
  
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• Forner Tomb Guard has rare disease

  27-05-2017 05:40
  
  It's considered one of the highest honors in the military: protecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.       
  
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• Remembering Max: ‘This Is Why We Have Today’

  27-05-2017 05:22
  
  LONE TREE, Colo. (CBS4)– One mother in Lone Tree has a reminder this Memorial Day holiday weekend: never forget the meaning of the holiday.
  Marine Cpl. Max W. Donahue was killed in action seven years ago. He would have turned 30 years old this year. His mother, Julie, thinks of the future he’ll never have.
  Marine Cpl. Max W. Donahue (credit: CBS)
  “What would he have looked like, what would he be doing, what kind of uncle would he be to his nieces. That’s what we are all m
  
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• Rural Colorado lacks internet speed

  27-05-2017 04:53
  
  Many people in Clear Creek County spend time in downtown Idaho Springs and downtown Georgetown to access high speed internet that can’t be accessed from their homes.       
  
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• Girl Passes Away From Injuries After Car Crashes Into Store

  27-05-2017 04:37
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) – The family of Rylie Guentensberger, the teenager who was injured by a vehicle driving through a storefront, told CBS4 that the teen did not survive.
  Her father, Ziggy Guentensberger, said that Rylie passed away on Friday.
  Rylie was inside a running store with her mother April 29 when police say a car drove through the front of the business, injuring seven people. The most severely hurt was 13-year-old Rylie.
  Rylie Guentensberger (credit: CBS)
  Rylie’s m
  
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• Showers, Storms and Cooler to Start the Holiday Weekend

  27-05-2017 04:33
  
  By Ed Greene
  DENVER (CBS4) –  As forecast on the 10pm Weather Thursday, Denver would only see a few showers and no severe weather…that would be relegated to the eastern plains.  That is exactly what occurred with a brief afternoon shower in the metro area then sunny skies,  and strong storms with heavy rain, strong winds, hail and even tornado warnings out on the plains.  The high reached 72 officially at the airport and 70 downtown – both below normal for
  
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• Latest Forecast: Showers, Storms and Cooler to Start the Holiday Weekend

  27-05-2017 04:33
  By Ed Greene
  DENVER (CBS4) –  As forecast on the 10pm Weather Thursday, Denver would only see a few showers and no severe weather…that would be relegated to the eastern plains.  That is exactly what occurred with a brief afternoon shower in the metro area then sunny skies,  and strong storms with heavy rain, strong winds, hail and even tornado warnings out on the plains.  The high reached 72 officially at the airport and 70 downtown – both below normal for
  
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• Rocker Chris Cornell Remembered As ‘Voice Of Our Generation’

  27-05-2017 04:32
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Music’s elite and Hollywood stars remembered Chris Cornell at a somber memorial service Friday that focused on the Soundgarden frontman’s love of family and friends as much as it did on his musical achievements as one of rock’s leading voices.
  “Chris was as melodic as The Beatles, as heavy as Sabbath and as haunting as Edgar Allan Poe,” Tom Morello, Cornell’s Audioslave bandmate, said during his eulogy. “The demons he wrestled wi
  
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• Federal Judge Tosses Out Life Sentences For DC Sniper

  27-05-2017 04:28
  
  McLean, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday tossed out two life sentences for one of Virginia’s most notorious criminals, sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, and ordered Virginia courts to hold new sentencing hearings.
  In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk said Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional.
  Malvo was 17 when he was arrested in 2002 for a series of shootings
  
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• Iraqi woman and war refugee graduates...

  27-05-2017 04:17
  
  Her name is Mariem Abdullatif. And she had quite the journey to getting her high school diploma. Abdullatif woke up to bombs in Iraq and Syria as a child. Her father was kidnapped and beaten.       
  
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• No Surprise: It’s Cavs-Warriors In The NBA Finals, Again

  27-05-2017 04:16
  (AP) – Here they go again.
  For the third straight year, it’s Cleveland and Golden State in the NBA Finals. The 2016 champions versus the 2015 champions . The first “threematch” — rematch of a rematch — in league history. It’s the matchup most expected, the matchup most predicted, and probably the matchup the Cavaliers and Warriors wanted as well.
  Let the hype, and the waiting, begin: Game 1 isn’t until June 1.
  “I’ve been very blessed th
  
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• Law Enforcement Step Up DUI Patrols Over Holiday Weekend

  27-05-2017 04:11
  DENVER (CBS4)– The Heat Is On over the Memorial Day holiday weekend in Colorado. Law enforcement are stepping up patrols across the state.The Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado State Patrol are stepping up DUI enforcement for the weekend and beyond.Last year over the holiday weekend, nearly 400 impaired drivers were arrested during the campaign.Extra patrols will be out across Colorado to make sure drivers stay safe.
  
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• Naming local peaks after climbers?

  27-05-2017 04:01
  
  Colorado's congressional representatives are trying to name two peaks in the southwestern part of the state after two local climbers who died in an avalanche in Asia.       
  
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• Less Chance for Showers and Storms as We Head Through the Weekend

  27-05-2017 03:51
  
  By Ed Greene
  DENVER (CBS4) – As promised Thursday evening on the 10pm Weather, the severe weather would not affect Denver and be relegated to the eastern plains.  That’s exactly what happened as Denver only saw a brief afternoon shower, but storms reaching severe levels peppered eastern Colorado, with strong winds, heavy rains, lightning and hail – even a few tornado warnings.  Denver’s high reached 72 degrees officially at the airport and 70 degrees downtown &n
  
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• The Facts And Figures Of Memorial Day

  27-05-2017 03:39
  
  (CBS4) – We’re gearing up for a big Memorial Day weekend. Here are some facts and figures about the unofficial start to summer!
  25 cities around the country claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. But the first state that officially recognized it as a holiday was New York in 1873.
  New Yorkers have welcomed U.S. sailors to town during Fleet Week since 1984.
  75% of us will go to a barbecue this weekend. It’s the second most-popular holiday for grilling. The Fourth of July is
  
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• Arizona boy with autism makes history

  27-05-2017 03:39
  
  GILBERT, Ariz. - He's a fan of Blake Shelton and his ultimate dream is to be a star on Nickelodeon.       
  
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• High School Student’s Service Dog Included Among Students in Yearbook Portraits

  27-05-2017 03:37
  
  (CBS4) – Students at one Virginia high school were in for a surprise as they flipped through their new yearbooks.
  Alpha, a service dog, was featured alongside the pupils of Stafford County high school.
  The dog belongs to Andrew Schalk, a junior with Type 1 diabetes and Alpha helps alert him when his blood sugar is getting too low or high.
  Once the unique yearbook picture made its way online, the internet couldn’t get enough.
  In addition to serving as Schalk’s primary spotter, A
  
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• Gargoyle house of Cherry Hills Village

  27-05-2017 03:30
  
  Colorado is full of iconic landmarks. Red Rocks. The Stanley Hotel. The Maroon Bells. The Gargoyle House.
  Not familiar with that one?Colorado is full of iconic landmarks. Red Rocks. The Stanley Hotel. The Maroon Bells. The Gargoyle House. Not familiar with that one?       
  
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• Theater puts on multi-sensory production

  27-05-2017 03:20
  
  Attending a Shakespearian play is likely not on the list of most preschool students, but the Denver Center for the Performing Arts wants young children to learn theater and from theater.       
  
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• Denver Police Officers Working Off Duty To Wear Body Cameras

  27-05-2017 03:09
  
  By Brian Maass and Mark Ackerman
  DENVER (CBS4)– CBS4 has learned that uniformed Denver police officers working off-duty jobs will soon be required to wear body cameras, according to an internal Denver Police Department email obtained by the CBS4 Investigative team.
  Over the past year, all uniformed police officers have been equipped with body cameras to wear during their regular patrol shifts. The new policy shift, scheduled to take effect in July, would require all uniformed Denver p
  
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• Witnesses free cyclist trapped under car

  27-05-2017 02:38
  
  Several witnesses worked together to lift the car and free the victim.        
  
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• Broncos sign third-round pick Henderson

  27-05-2017 02:31
  
  KUSA—And then there were 90.       
  
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• Clinton Calls Trump’s Budget A Mean-Spirited ‘Con’

  27-05-2017 02:20
  WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) — Hillary Clinton peppered her Wellesley College commencement address Friday with barbs aimed at her rival in last year’s presidential election, criticizing President Donald Trump’s budget proposal as a mean-spirited “con.”
  The former Democratic presidential nominee never mentioned Trump by name even as she lashed out at his proposed budget as “an attack of unimaginable cruelty on the most vulnerable among us.”
  She said during her s
  
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• Colorado Representatives Try To Rename Peaks After Climbers

  27-05-2017 02:12
  
  NORWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Colorado’s congressional representatives are trying to name two peaks in the southwestern part of the state after two local climbers who died in an avalanche in Asia.
  The state’s two senators, Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner, and Rep. Scott Tipton have introduced a bill renaming the as yet unnamed 13,000-foot peaks after Charlie Fowler and Chris Boskoff. The two were killed in 2006 while climbing a remote massif on the border of China and Tibet.
  The peaks
  
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