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• Police Officer Found Shot In Home

  02-06-2017 23:59
  
  WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4)– A police officer from Fort Morgan died after he was found shot in a home in Westminster.Christopher Sandoval was 22 years old and the youngest member of the force.Police say he had gone to visit a friend in Westminster after working an overtime shift. Chris Sandoval (credit: Fort Morgan Police)
  Police say he was found in a garage in a home in the Stratford Lakes neighborhood.Several other people were there at the time and said to be cooperating with investigators
  
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• Britt Moreno Gets ‘Out Of Comfort Zone’ For Magazine Photo Shoot

  02-06-2017 21:52
  By Britt Moreno
  DENVER (CBS4) – Out of my comfort zone. That’s how I felt after arriving to the set of a photo shoot. Honored is how I feel overall about being chosen for the cover of Denver Style Magazine.
  I am still surprised they chose me out of all the incredible journalists we have in town!Repping orange & blue in @DenverStyleMag for what I'm calling our @Broncos look! Kudos to an amazing team at Den Style! #gobroncos #style pic.twitter.com/4fCZgQ90IE
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• Kathy Griffin Tells Reporters She Fears Her Career Is Over

  02-06-2017 21:01
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Embattled comedian Kathy Griffin says she’s not afraid of Donald Trump and plans to keep making fun of him but maintained that she’s sorry for a video that depicted her holding a likeness of the president’s severed, bloody head.
  At a rambling press conference Friday, Griffin tearfully predicted her career is over and said Trump “broke me.” Since the video was posted Tuesday, she has lost her job co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve sp
  
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• Broncos Safety Parks Could Face Suspension From NFL Over Arrest

  02-06-2017 20:46
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Broncos backup safety Will Parks could face a suspension from the NFL following a domestic violence arrest earlier this offseason.
  Will Parks (credit: CBS)
  Parks, 22, is scheduled to appear in Adams County court on June 30. He faces misdemeanor harassment and non-physical domestic violence charges involving a former girlfriend.
  Reports indicate Parks’ ex-girlfriend told authorities he made threatening phone calls to her, which he denies.
  In a statement, the Br
  
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• WATCH: Juan Martin del Potro Comforts Injured Opponent In Ultimate Show Of Sportsmanship

  02-06-2017 20:03
  Bryan Altman
  In the quest to win a Grand Slam tournament, sportsmanship can sometimes fall by the wayside for even the most well-to-do athletes in the game of tennis as the intensity ratchets up to the highest of levels.
  On Thursday morning in a heated second round matchup between Juan Martin del Potro and Nicolas Almagro, Almagro fell to the court with an apparent knee injury and writhed in pain almost instantly.
  Without a second’s hesitation, del Potro hopped over the net and was by
  
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• Thieves Cause Tens Of Thousands In Damage, All For 5 Bottles Of Liquor

  02-06-2017 19:59
  
  By Jamie Leary
  LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – Lakewood police are looking for suspects involved in an early morning smash-and-grab robbery at a liquor store.
  The owner of Big D’s Liquor off Kipling Street and West Colfax Avenue says it’s just one of many crimes that have taken place in that neighborhood recently.
  (credit: CBS)
  The robbery took place at 3:26 a.m. on Thursday. Surveillance video Big D’s shared with CBS4 shows the brazen thieves driving what appears to be a light
  
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• Uber Driver Stabbed, Killed In Chicago Was Formerly A CU Student

  02-06-2017 19:17
  
  LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. (CBS) — A 34-year-old Illinois man who was working as an Uber driver when he was stabbed to death earlier this week was a former University of Colorado Boulder student.
  That’s according to a report by the Chicago Tribune, which states Grant Nelson went to a high school in Illinois before coming to Colorado for college.
  Grant Nelson (credit: CBS)
  A 16-year-old girl has been charged with Nelson’s apparently random murder on Tuesday in Lincolnwood.
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• Broncos should have improved run game

  02-06-2017 19:11
  
  ENGLEWOOD--Lost amid the Great Quarterback Competition is the Broncos figure to have a much-improved running game this season.       
  
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• ‘Aerial America’ Shows A Day In The Life Of New York City

  02-06-2017 18:35
  Aerial America returns for its 68th episode this Sunday, June 4th at 8:00 PM ET/PT on the Smithsonian Channel. Sunday’s episode is titled “New York City 24” and will give viewers an opportunity to view the Big Apple like never before.CBS Local’s Matt Weiss spoke with Aerial America‘s executive producer Toby Beach for an inside look at how the show is created and some of his favorite moments caught on camera. For a sneak peak at Sunday night’s episode, check ou
  
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• Penalties Now Tougher For Drivers Who Don’t Move Over In Emergencies

  02-06-2017 18:07
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Tougher penalties are going into effect in Colorado for drivers who don’t move over for first responders.
  (credit: CBS)
  After a bill signing on Thursday by Colorado’s governor, drivers who hit an emergency worker can be now charged with a class 1 misdemeanor, and that goes up to a class 6 felony if the victim dies.
  The law is called the Move Over for Cody Act in honor of the late Colorado State Patrol trooper Cody Donahue. Donahue was killed last November after
  
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• Keidel: Don’t Write The Cavs Off Because Of Game 1

  02-06-2017 18:00
  
  By Jason Keidel
  America woke up to a wall of eulogies.
  Who died?The Cleveland Cavaliers, it seems. After one game, Game 1, of the NBA Finals, a 22-point loss to a near-perfect performance by Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors, we’re being told the Cavs have a microscopic chance – of winning a game. The series is already lost.This is what we do, and what we are. Prisoners of moments, myopia, and the ADD nature of social media.Lost in all the premature postmortems is the fact t
  
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• Fake Plastic Surgeon Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

  02-06-2017 17:57
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – A surgical assistant posing as a cosmetic surgeon in Denver, who previously pleaded guilty to felony charges, was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday.
  Carlos Hernandez Fernandez, 37, pleaded guilty to second degree assault and criminal impersonation, both felony charges, along with unauthorized practice of physician, a misdemeanor, in April.
  Carlos Hernandez Fernandez (credit: CBS)
  In a plea deal with prosecutors, Hernandez Fernandez agreed to pay $189,000 in re
  
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• Denver Mayor: ‘We Pledge To Meet The Targets Of The Paris Agreement’

  02-06-2017 16:19
  DENVER (CBS4) – Denver Mayor Michael Hancock says the city will do what it can to live up to the Paris climate change agreement.
  President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is pulling the United States out of the accord because he says it hurts American businesses and workers. Hancock disagrees, saying the accord boosts clean energy jobs.
  Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (credit: CBS)
  In a statement, Hancock said “We will not back down from our commitment to address this global
  
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• Kevin Durant makes his mark in Game 1 of NBA Finals for Warriors

  02-06-2017 15:48
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. — LeBron James had a simple explanation for what stood out in Game 1 of the NBA Finals: KD.
  With a motivated Kevin Durant playing some of the best basketball of his career and taking the pressure off Stephen Curry, Golden State dominated Cleveland 113-91 in Game 1 on Thursday night and showed that Cavaliers-Warriors III might not look anything like the previous showdowns.
  “You take one of the best teams that we had ever assembled last year, that we saw in the regular
  
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• Latest Forecast: Surge In Moisture Brings High Humidity And Numerous T-Storms

  02-06-2017 15:46
  
  By Ashton Altieri
  DENVER (CBS4) – For Colorado standards, Friday will be a humid day thanks a influx of moisture. The moist air will fuel numerous thunderstorms mainly during the afternoon and early evening. Most of the morning will be dry.
  The thunderstorms will initially develop in the mountains and then move east over the Front Range urban corridor followed by the Eastern Plains by Friday evening.
  The upper-level weather system responsible for the thunderstorms will move very slowly acr
  
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• Longmont moms start local movement against gun violence

  02-06-2017 15:32
  
  A new local chapter of a national anti-gun violence organization has started in Longmont this year and will hold a picnic on Saturday. Lewis Geyer, Staff PhotographerAudrey Wilcox looks at a card Thursday morning a fact related to gun violence.
  Moms Demand Action is a national organization that supports the Second Amendment but also “believe common-sense solutions can help decrease the escalating epidemic of gun violence,” according to the organization’s website.
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• William J.L. Sladen, scientific adventurer featured in “Fly Away Home,” dies at 96

  02-06-2017 15:23
  
  By Emily Langer, The Washington Post
  Bewilderment: That was the reaction of William J.L. Sladen’s friends when he decided, more than six decades ago, to forgo his medical career and embark on a new one as a zoologist.
  The British-born physician would become an internationally known authority on birds, his exploits dramatized in the 1996 Hollywood film “Fly Away Home” and chronicled in the pages of National Geographic.
  “Wouldn’t they perhaps trade whatever they are d
  
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• U.S. trade deficit rises to highest level since January

  02-06-2017 15:21
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit rose in April to the highest level since January. The politically sensitive trade gap with China registered a sharp increase.
  The Commerce Department says the U.S. trade gap in goods and services climbed 5.2 percent to $47.6 billion in April from March. Exports dropped 0.3 percent to $191 billion, pulled down by a drop in automotive exports. Imports rose 0.8 percent to $238.6 billion. The deficit in goods with China rose by 12.4 percent to $27.6 billion
  
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• U.S. job market weak in May, adding just 138,000 jobs

  02-06-2017 15:13
  
  WASHINGTON – U.S. job growth came in below expectations in May, with employers adding just 138,000 jobs as the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3 percent, federal economists reported Friday morning.
  Average hourly earnings were up by 2.5 percent from the previous year to $26.22.
  Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected an increase of 180,000 in non-farm payrolls.
  As the economy continues to expand and reaches a point where nearly everybody who wants a job can find one – what e
  
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• New Law Permits Self-Driving Cars In Colorado

  02-06-2017 15:13
  
  GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (CBS4) – Self-driving cars will soon be a reality in Colorado.
  (credit: CBS)
  Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday signed bill into law that allows the new technology.
  Autonomous vehicles cars can now be tested in the state as long as they follow the rules of the road and get special permission to operate from the Colorado State Patrol and the Colorado Department of Transportation.
  General Motors officials say the technology will make everyone safer. They showed off a
  
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• Mental health lockups spiked by 1,365 percent in two years at Summit County jail

  02-06-2017 15:05
  
  When John told a crisis hotline counselor that he was suicidal last September, he didn’t expect the police to get involved. But roughly two hours later, he says, sheriff’s deputies arrived at his home in Summit Cove. Hugh Carey, Summit DailySummit County jail commander Erik Bourgerie signals toward a security camera to open a holding cell Wednesday May 31, 2017, at the jail in Breckenridge.
  John, who asked his real name be withheld, had been drinking heavily and fallen asleep after m
  
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• Road Destroyed In 2013 Flooding Reopens To Traffic

  02-06-2017 14:47
  BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – Repairs on a road in a small section of the northwest Denver metro area that was devastated by the big floods of September 2013 have been completed.
  (credit: CBS)
  The area of Dillon Road which crosses over Rock Creek just east of Highway 287 near the border between Lafayette and Broomfield has been reopened to traffic. It now has a new culvert and multi-use path which passes underneath it.
  The road was washed out when floodwaters swelled up in the creek in violen
  
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• Denver weather’s nice now, but chances are good there will be thunderstorms after 2 p.m.

  02-06-2017 14:32
  
  Brisk winds, thunderstorms and rain are expected Friday afternoon along the Front Range.
  There is a 40 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m., according to the forecast by the National Weather Service in Boulder.
  RJ Sangosti, The Denver PostSpring blooms add color to Civic Center Park in downtown Denver, April 06, 2015.The high temperature will be about 76 degrees. Winds could gust up to 24 mph.
  Sunshine is forecast for the weekend, with a high of 76 on Saturday and 84 on
  
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• Self-Defense Instructor Accused Of Killing Woman

  02-06-2017 14:23
  CLIFTON, Colo. (CBS4) – A self-defense instructor is accused of killing a woman in Clifton.
  Court documents from the town outside Grand Junction show Aleksandr Kolpakov was acting erratically before and after the shooting.
  Aleksandr Kolpakov (credit: Mesa County)
  The Grand Junction Sentinel reports he and the victim, Heather Anable, lived together in a fourplex.
  Neighbors told deputies they heard the suspect telling another woman on the phone that he was poisoned. Later, they heard gunshot
  
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• As hero died protecting teens in Portland, his wedding ring and backpack were stolen, police say

  02-06-2017 14:07
  
  Ricky Best was one of two people hailed as heroes after being stabbed to death last Friday on a Portland, Ore., light-rail train while trying to calm a man yelling anti-Muslim slurs at two teenage girls.
  Portland police now say that as Best lay helpless, someone apparently made off with his wedding ring and backpack. Police posted images of the suspect on YouTube and Twitter late Thursday, along with a plea for the public’s help in locating him.
  “The contents of the backpack include
  
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• EU, China back climate pact after Trump pullout

  02-06-2017 13:38
  
  BRUSSELS — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and top officials from the European Union are on Friday set to reaffirm their commitment to a landmark climate change agreement, a day after President Donald Trump said he was pulling the United States out of the Paris accord.
  Climate issues are expected to dominate discussions between Li, who is leading a large delegation of ministers to Brussels, and EU Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
  Speaking to E
  
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• China likely to gain as U.S. withdraws from Paris agreement

  02-06-2017 13:34
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pullback from a global climate pact could accelerate China’s unlikely ascent toward leadership in stemming global warming and promoting green technology, and on global matters far removed from the environment.
  Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would leave the Paris accord immediately sparked international criticism, deepening perceptions of an America in retreat after recent reversals on free trade and foreign aid.
  China may be poise
  
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• It’s Never Too Late, Or Too Soon, To Turn Over Your Fantasy Baseball Roster

  02-06-2017 10:01
  
  By Sam McPherson
  The not-so-serious fantasy baseball owners often lose interest in the season around Memorial Day Weekend, when they go away for three days or more and stop checking their fantasy rosters when they get back. The casual owners get distracted, and the owners with teams at the bottom of the standings just give up. This creates opportunity for everyone else in the league: Less competition for players on the waiver wire means you have a better chance at turning over your roster right
  
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• New Apartment Complex Opens Near Union Station

  02-06-2017 06:17
  
  DENVER (CBS4)– The grand opening of a new apartment building near Union Station is designed to help ease the tight rental market.Denver Mayor Michael Hancock cut the ribbon on the apartment building on Thursday. The complex offers 75 units for low and moderate income households.
  The majority of those units have already been leased.There are nearly 900 units currently under construction in the Denver metro area in hopes of adding inventory to the rental market.“We’re going to wo
  
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• Permit Process Overwhelmed After Hail Storm

  02-06-2017 06:03
  By Dillon Thomas
  WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (CBS4)– After last month’s record-breaking hail storm, some cities are experiencing significant delays in building permit requests.
  Permits are required in order to repair siding and roofing on homes.
  (credit: CBS)
  According to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association, the preliminary losses from the storm are estimated at $1.4 billion.
  Hail in Golden (credit: CSP Sgt. Mullins)
  That passes the previous record-setting storm of June 20, 2
  
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• Injured Good Samaritans On The Road To Recovery

  02-06-2017 05:52
  
  By Jeff Todd
  BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)– Two good Samaritans injured in a suspected drunk driving crash are out of the hospital and recovering.
  “There’s a really good chance I wasn’t going to live,” said AJ Short.
  AJ Short (credit: CBS)
  Short was released from the hospital about a week ago, but he and another victim have endured surgeries and mounting hospital bills after they originally were just trying to do the right thing and help a different injured driver.
  “I
  
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• 2 Juveniles Arrested In Connection With Carjacking That Turned Deadly

  02-06-2017 05:45
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (CBS4) – The final two carjacking suspects on the run from authorities have been arrested.
  The crime turned deadly when one of the five suspects died after an Arapahoe County Sheriff’s deputy shot and injured the 17-year-old following a carjacking, a pursuit and a crash early Wednesday morning. The teen, James Hill, died at the hospital.
  (credit: CBS)
  The carjacking took place just before 5 a.m. in the 15800 block of E. Jamison Drive in unincorporated Arapahoe Count
  
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• Carjacking Victim Hopes Others Can Learn From Experience

  02-06-2017 05:35
  By Andrea Flores
  DENVER (CBS4)– A small business owner was carjacked by a man in broad daylight. Surveillance video caught it all on tape but the suspect remains on the run. Now she hopes others can learn from her story.
  It happened last Thursday near 10th and Acoma in the Golden Triangle, while Kelly Meeks was leaving a parking lot to open her store, Meek Modern and Vintage.
  (credit: CBS)
  “We made eye contact and I could tell something was off,” Meeks said. “He was stari
  
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• Nuclear Waste Transport Contract Awarded To Colorado Company

  02-06-2017 04:57
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Energy Department has awarded a contract worth up to $112 million to a Colorado company for transportation services at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository.
  The agency announced the contract with CAST Specialty Transportation, Inc. on Thursday. CAST already maintains a terminal in southern New Mexico to support transport operations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
  (credit: casttrans.com)
  Under the new contract, CAST also will be re
  
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• Student Suspended After Alleged Anti-Semitic Incident

  02-06-2017 04:52
  By Rick Sallinger
  JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Jefferson County Public Schools has suspended an eighth grade student after what sounds like a horrifying incident that sounded like an act of hate, but may have been an inappropriate joke that went too far.
  It happened at Oberon Middle School in north Jefferson County. A boy was loosely tied to a soccer goal post and was told “Burn, Jew, burn.”
  Oberon Middle School in Jeffco Schools (credit: CBS)
  Diana Wilson, a spokesperson fo
  
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• Universities Say Trump Climate Decision Creates Uncertainty

  02-06-2017 04:31
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A consortium of U.S. universities that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research says President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the nation out of an international agreement on climate creates new uncertainties.
  In a statement Thursday, Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, stopped short of explicitly criticizing the move.
  Busalacchi says climate change is a threat to food, water, transportation and natio
  
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• Students Celebrate Graduation From Denver Language School

  02-06-2017 04:13
  By Shawn Chitnis
  DENVER (CBS4)– The first class to complete their education at the Denver Language School graduated Thursday. The public K-8 charter school celebrated their academic program where the majority of their classes are taught in Mandarin Chinese or Spanish.
  “It’s opened up her brain and her world to say additional languages are something I just see as an everyday part of my life,” said Susan Gallo, a parent of a student at the school.
  (credit: CBS)
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• Scattered Storms Still Around for Friday, But Cooler

  02-06-2017 04:12
  By Ed Greene
  DENVER (CBS4) – Thursday saw those scattered storms once again as we just reached 80 degrees – officially at the airport – and 81 degrees downtown. Friday will see a weak cold front push through the state keeping scattered storms around with the high only in the upper 70s.
  Then just in time for the weekend, we should stay dry…and with more sunshine, we’ll warm it up as well: look fro low 80s on Saturday and into the mid 80s for Sunday. Scattered storms
  
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• Latest Forecast: Scattered Storms Still Around for Friday, But Cooler

  02-06-2017 04:12
  
  By Ed GreeneDENVER (CBS4) – Thursday saw those scattered storms once again as we just reached 80 degrees – officially at the airport – and 81 degrees downtown. Friday will see a weak cold front push through the state keeping scattered storms around with the high only in the upper 70s.
  Then just in time for the weekend, we should stay dry…and with more sunshine, we’ll warm it up as well: look fro low 80s on Saturday and into the mid 80s for Sunday. Scattered storms
  
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• Broncos faces domestic violence charge

  02-06-2017 04:05
  
  BRIGHTON - Denver Broncos safety William Parks is facing misdemeanor charges of harassment and non-physical domestic violence stemming from an incident in Brighton with his former girlfriend.       
  
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• Rockies Break Losing Streak With Victory Over Mariners

  02-06-2017 03:40
  SEATTLE (The Sports Xchange) – Tape-measure home runs are commonplace at Coors Field in the mile-high air of Denver.
  Not so at Safeco Field.
  But the Colorado Rockies’ Mark Reynolds proved Thursday afternoon it can be done, hitting a 450-foot shot off Seattle starter Yovani Gallardo (2-6) in the second inning.
  That blast sparked the Rockies to a 6-3 victory over the Mariners that snapped Colorado’s three-game losing streak. Nolan Arenado also homered for Colorado.
  The injury-rav
  
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• Jury Convicts Man In Death Of Toddler Found In Storage Bin

  02-06-2017 02:36
  GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4) – A jury has convicted a man in the 2015 death of his young cousin.
  Roman Morales was found guilty of first-degree murder after a trial that lasted two weeks. The jury took just one day to deliberate. He was sentenced to life in prison.Roman Moralesin Jefferson County Court in September 2015 (credit: CBS)
  Morales had recently been released from jail and had a ankle monitoring bracelet at the time. He had been staying with family members in a unit in the Green Gables Co
  
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• Police Officer In Body Slamming Video Exonerated

  02-06-2017 02:23
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – A police officer in Fort Collins who is seen in a video that went viral throwing a woman to the ground outside a bar, has been exonerated.
  Officer Randall Klamser will return to full duty after he was placed on administrative leave during the investigation.(credit: CBS)
  The incident happened outside the Bondi Beach Bar and Grill on April 6. Michaella Surat, 22, a Colorado State University student, was arrested on assault charges.
  Arrest paperwork shows Surat ha
  
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• CBS4 Sports Poll: Who will win the NBA Finals?

  02-06-2017 02:14
  
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