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• Hardrock 100 isn’t losing sight of its origins, despite soaring popularity

  16-07-2017 23:32
  
  SILVERTON — As the clock approached 5 a.m., the sun still tucked behind the mountains, they emerged bleary-eyed from the shadows and lined alongside the Silverton High School gym.
  It is known at the Hardrock 100 as “The Golden Hour” — the final 60 minutes before the 48-hour cutoff for finishing this 100.5-mile odyssey through the rugged San Juan Mountains, a run that requires athletes to climb nearly 33,000 feet.
  A small cadre of fans, crew members, run officials and runn
  
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• Charlie Blackmon hits inside-the-park homer as Rockies blast Mets

  16-07-2017 23:16
  
  NEW YORK — The Rockies needed a victory. Even a drama-filled, white-knuckle win would have been just fine with them.
  What they got instead was a most welcome 13-4 cruiser over the New York Mets Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Rockies cranked out 10 extra-base hits and it marked just the third time since 2008 that they scored 13 or more runs on the road.
  Jeff Hoffman provided a solid start, while Charlie Blackmon, DJ LeMahieu, Nolan Arenado, Mark Reynolds and Gerardo Parra provided fire
  
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• Conditions So Dry, Lawnmower Sparks Brush Fire

  16-07-2017 22:32
  
  DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – A lawnmower accidentally sparked a wildfire Sunday.
  It happened around noon in the 8500 block of Flintwood Road in Douglas County.
  South Metro Fire Rescue tweeted out pictures of the damage.2 acre brush fire at 8566 Flintwood Rd in Douglas Co. Under control, no injuries, no structures damaged thx @Elizabeth_Fire & @FranktownFire pic.twitter.com/S80tbcO3JT
  — SouthMetroFireRescue (@SouthMetroPIO) July 16, 2017
  They say the fire is no under control. Th
  
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• 100 MPH Wheelies, Police Searching For ‘Dangerous’ Motorcyclist

  16-07-2017 22:23
  
  BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – Police are on the lookout for a dangerous motorcyclist, who they say is putting lives at risk.
  The biker was spotted doing wheelies in traffic, going over 100 miles per hour, and was speeding away from police.
  Broomfield Police shared photos on Facebook of the man they’re looking for and his motorcycle.They describe him as around 6-feet-tall and 150 pounds, with tattoos on both arms.
  He was seen driving a red Yamaha motorcyle.
  
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• Driver Dangles Over Retaining Wall In Crash

  16-07-2017 22:13
  
  GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4) – The Colorado State Patrol is investigating a crash that had a car teetering over retaining wall.
  It happened Saturday on the ramp from C-470 to I-70.
  Police say a 62-year-old man lost control of his car and rolled several times before coming to a stop atop the wall.CDOT en route to inspect / stabilize a damaged retaining wall. C470 / I-70. pic.twitter.com/ulyGrYbxNf
  — CSP Golden (@CSP_Golden) July 16, 2017
  Other drivers got out to help steady the car until emer
  
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• Watch: Chick-Fil-A Employee Saves Choking Man’s Life

  16-07-2017 22:02
  
  HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (CBS4) – A Chick-Fil-A employee on his break saved a coworker who was choking.
  It happened while the two were on break at the Highlands Ranch Town Center store.
  One employee got up after food getting caught in his throat.
  As he’s choking, Andrew Myrant rushes to give him the Heimlick maneuver.
  Once he dislodges the food, Myrant casually sits back down to finish his meal as if it’s just a typical Wednesday.
  
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• ‘Bloodless’ Bullfighting Arrives In Colorado

  16-07-2017 21:50
  By Andrea Flores
  DENVER (CBS4) – Bullfighting is tradition in countries like Spain and Mexico, but has been a controversial issue for centuries.
  “I don’t see how any culture can get pleasure out of terrorizing an animal,” said Roland Halpern of Colorado Voters for Animals.
  (credit: CBS)
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  Saturday “bloodless” bullfighting came to Colorado for the first time at the National Western Stock Show Complex.
  “We want to create fights without blo
  
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• 2-Year-Old Missing Since April Could Be In Colorado

  16-07-2017 21:20
  COLORADO SPRING, Colo. (CBS4) – A missing boy from Tennessee could be in Colorado.
  The Bledsoe County Sheriff posted to Facebook Saturday night that Jeremiah Frazier, 2, who was last seen April 19, could be in the Colorado Springs area.
  “We have got some new information that indicates that Jeremiah may be in Colorado around the Colorado Springs area,” the department posted.Jeremiah is believed to be with his mother Gracie, who took him nearly three months ago.
  Gracie is wanted
  
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• Combat Veteran’s Independence Halted In Fiery Crash

  16-07-2017 21:07
  
  By Melissa Garcia
  LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – Residents are dealing with the messy aftermath of a fiery wreck that sent flames shooting 50-feet into the air at a Littleton condominium complex.
  Police evacuated dozens of residents from the Park Bellevue Condominiums just before midnight on June 15 after a semi-tractor crashed into a tree.
  The tree came down onto the building and caught fire after one of the semi’s fuel tanks exploded, investigators said.
  (credit: CBS)
  The semi driv
  
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• Denver Post projects on oil and gas deaths and Japanese internment camps win three Heartland Emmys

  16-07-2017 21:00
  
  Video stories from The Denver Post’s award-winning series “Drilling Through Danger” and from a project on a survivor who lived in Colorado’s Japanese internment camp won three Heartland Emmys at the annual awards ceremony Saturday.A @HeartlandEmmy for the @denverpost in community service for Drilling through Danger! pic.twitter.com/QNdw9YaIsB
  — Linda Shapley (@LindaShapley) July 16, 2017The Denver Post received the Community Service Award for videos in the Drilling
  
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• Colorado-based sign maker featured in White House event to spotlight American products

  16-07-2017 20:33
  
  A Colorado-based sign company will represent the state in a White House event Monday that will highlight American-made products.
  Gordon Sign designs, manufactures and installs signs throughout the country. In the Denver area, the company’s signs include one for the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton.
  The event will celebrate American products and encourage other companies to manufacture their products in the United States, according to a White House news release.
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• Watch: Broncos WR Pepper Sprayed In Strip Club Fight

  16-07-2017 20:29
  DAYTON, Ohio (CBS4) – Denver Broncos wide receiver Cody Latimer was caught on camera getting pepper sprayed in a fight outside of a strip club.
  Latimer was trying to get into the Diamonds Cabaret strip club in February with his uncle and a friend, when a bouncer pepper sprayed Latimer, according to TMZ Sports.
  They report that the altercation began as a disagreement over the club’s dress code.
  Latimer responded to the posting of the video Sunday, approximately six months later, with
  
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• Homeless man wields ax, plus more police notes from Longmont

  16-07-2017 20:24
  
  Police notes from the weekend as reported by Longmont Times Call:A homeless man threatened another man with a large ax on the 2200 block of Main street Friday. One man was taken into custody and transported to the Boulder County Jail.
  A woman was bitten in the face by a dog while in the dog owner’s home Friday. The dog owner was issued a summons and the dog was quarantined. The victim was transported to Longmont United Hospital.
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• Stem Cells In Fat Can Help Offer Pets Relief

  16-07-2017 20:13
  
  BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – An animal hospital is helping pets struggling with painful arthritis by using a “pet stem cell” procedure.
  Doctors at the Aspen Arbor Animal Hospital remove fat from from the animals, then isolate the stem cells in that fat.
  (credit: CBS)
  “If we think we’re going to need another procedure in a couple of years, we do stem cell banking,” Darah Johnson said. “That way we don’t have to go through the surgery all over again. W
  
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• Broncos Latimer responds to TMZ video

  16-07-2017 19:55
  Broncos receiver Cody Latimer said he was merely trying to play peacekeeper during a disagreement between his uncle and a Dayton, Ohio strip club bouncer back on Feb. 20.       
  
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• Bone Fragment Scare Forces Hot Dog Recall

  16-07-2017 19:51
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The maker of Sabrett hot dogs is recalling more than 7 million pounds of hot dogs because they may contain bone fragments.
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the recall of products made by New York City-based Marathon Enterprises Inc. on Saturday.
  The recall affects beef and pork hot dogs and sausages produced on various dates between March 17 and July 4.
  The food-safety agency says the products subject to recall are stam
  
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• 1 Taken To Hospital, Dog Saved In Apartment Fire

  16-07-2017 19:44
  
  DENVER (CBS4) – Denver firefighters had to put out an apartment blaze Saturday morning.
  It happened in the area of East 12th Avenue and Pennsylvania Street.Update: fire is out and loss stopped @ 1260 Pennsylvania. Secondary search in progress. pic.twitter.com/eboHsjra1b
  — Denver Fire Dept. (@Denver_Fire) July 15, 2017
  The Denver Fire Department posted pictures to Twitter.
  They say one person was taken to the hospital. There is no word on their condition.
  Firefighters performed CPR on
  
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• Israel reopens Jerusalem holy site after deadly assault

  16-07-2017 19:00
  
  By Aron Heller, The Associated Press
  JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Muslim worshippers visited a Jerusalem holy site Sunday after Israel reopened the compound following a rare closure in response to a deadly shooting last week that raised concerns about wider unrest.
  For the first time in decades, Israel closed the site ’ known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount ’ on Friday after three Arab citizens of Israel opened fire from the sacred site with automat
  
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• Pot-Sniffing Dog Not Enough To Search, Court Rules

  16-07-2017 18:45
  
  DENVER (AP) — Drug-sniffing police dogs in Colorado may need new training if they can detect marijuana, after a ruling last week by the Colorado Court of Appeals that sets a new precedent for drug cases.
  A three-judge panel agreed that if a drug-sniffing dog is trained to alert officers to marijuana and other drugs, cops need more cause to search a vehicle without permission.
  The decision came out of a 2015 case in Moffat County, where a drug-sniffing dog named Kilo alerted officers to the
  
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• Columbia Settles Lawsuit Filed By Target Of Mattress Protest

  16-07-2017 18:44
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has settled a gender bias lawsuit brought by a male student who said the school failed to protect him when a female student called him a rapist and carried a mattress around campus to dramatize her pain.
  The university said in a statement that it settled the lawsuit Paul Nungesser filed in 2015. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
  The school said it stands by its finding that Nungesser was not responsible for any misconduct with a fellow student.
  
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• How T.D. chose agent as HOF presenter

  16-07-2017 18:43
  
  It was 5 a.m. in a New Jersey diner when an unsure running back prospect out of Georgia secured his presenter for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.       
  
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• Mets Power To 9-3 Win Over Reeling Rockies

  16-07-2017 18:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Bruce and the rest of the Mets knew they needed to come out of the All-Star break with a bang.
  That’s exactly what they’ve done.
  Bruce and pitcher Seth Lugo homered during an early burst that sent New York past Colorado 9-3 on Saturday night for its second straight blowout of the reeling Rockies.
  Jose Reyes also went deep and Lucas Duda had a two-run double as the Mets took full advantage of a calf injury that knocked wild Colorado s
  
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• Cody Latimer pepper-sprayed during February incident at Ohio strip club; says “situation is in the past”

  16-07-2017 17:38
  
  Broncos receiver Cody Latimer was pepper-sprayed by a bouncer after a scuffle outside an Ohio strip club in February, according to video published by TMZ on Sunday.
  Per TMZ, Latimer was attempting to enter Diamonds Cabaret near Dayton, Ohio, along with his uncle and friend, but got into a disagreement with the bouncer over the club’s dress code.
  The argument moved outside, as seen in the video, after Latimer’s group asked to speak to the club’s manager.
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• Trump says media “distorting democracy” in morning Twitter post

  16-07-2017 17:32
  
  (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the media early Sunday, hours after news that his campaign paid $50,000 in late June to the law firm later revealed to be representing Donald Trump Jr. in the matter of a meeting during 2016 with a Russian lawyer to seek damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
  “With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country,” Trump told his
  
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• Homemade carpet cleaning solutions

  16-07-2017 16:28
  
  Searching for a natural way to clean carpets.       
  
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• Latest Forecast: Sunday Sunshine With Hot Temps In Week Ahead

  16-07-2017 15:33
  By Dave Aguilera
  DENVER (CBS4) – Slightly drier air is moving in over the I-25 corridor from Fort Collins and Denver down through Colorado Springs and Pueblo. This in the wake of what was a soaking day for some on Saturday. Afternoon storms on Saturday delivered a half-inch to over one inch of rain from parts of Aurora and Parker out to the Deer Trail area.
  Sunday will see isolated showers and storms in the mountains, foothills and extreme eastern plains by afternoon and evening.
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• They don’t believe in God. So they founded a community center in Denver for non-believers.

  16-07-2017 14:00
  
  By 10:30 a.m., the assembly room has filled with people. They’re four dozen strong, swirling about the long rectangular hall like in a hive, standing and laughing in small clusters, shaking hands and hugging latecomers, finishing coffee and doughnuts in the kitchen, leaning in close to hear a week’s worth of gossip whispered too low for lurking passers-by.
  The congregation’s Sunday morning gathering is a cherished communal ritual that brings together newly joined 20-somethings,
  
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• Ask Amy: Hikers encounter trail of rudeness

  16-07-2017 12:30
  
  Dear Amy: Why do people have to be so rude to old people?
  I need to know how to respond when someone has been rude to me or my friends. We are three people in our seventies. We live near a national park and have been hiking for nine years. We have probably hiked more miles uphill than the people who constantly insult us.
  Here is an example of the rudeness: Two of the ladies have full heads of beautiful white hair. I color mine, so I look younger.
  Twice now, someone has said to me, “Are you
  
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• Growing conflicts between bears and humans have led to dozens of bear deaths in Colorado this year

  16-07-2017 09:00
  
  Colorado wildlife managers and homeowners have killed at least 34 bears so far this summer, reflecting the bears’ growing reliance on human-derived food amid a seasonal shortage of forage in some areas.
  This surge in what the managers call “lethal removals” builds on a pattern in Colorado, where people kill more than 1,000 bears a year. Hunters killed 1,051 bears in 2015 and 933 in 2016, Colorado Parks and Wildlife data show. Government wildlife managers and landowners kill add
  
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• Apple’s billion devices give augmented reality edge over Google

  16-07-2017 08:10
  
  By Alex Webb, Bloomberg News 
  Later this year, Apple will put augmented reality software in as many as a billion mobile devices.
  Alphabet Inc.’s Google beat Apple by three years in releasing AR tools, but its features are on very few phones and haven’t gained wide acceptance. By contrast, Apple can easily pair its software and devices, an advantage that will help it quickly make up lost ground, developers say.
  “When they make it available, my apps will be in millions
  
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• Seen: Janet’s Camp fundraiser treats 300-plus to a Cuban fiesta

  16-07-2017 08:07
  
  Janet’s Camp took an exotic turn this year as guests — some 300 strong — assembled on the grounds of a Denver Polo Club estate for an evening reminiscent of Havana in its heyday.
  Bright colors, salsa music by the Manuel Molina band and tropical treats helped put everyone in a celebratory mood.
  In the previous 11 years, this benefit for the YMCA of Metropolitan Denver had been cast as a glamping — minus, of course, a sleepover — experience. But in year 12, a committe
  
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• Is it a sick day? Vacation day? With PTO, it doesn’t matter

  16-07-2017 08:06
  
  At small businesses this summer, many owners won’t be trying to figure out whether employees will be counting it as vacation time, personal days or sick leave when they send texts or emails that say, “I’m not coming in today.”
  A growing number of companies combine vacation and sick time into one bucket called paid time off, or PTO. Staffers decide whether they’re going to use the days for vacation, when they or a relative is ill, or for family events.
  “You&rsq
  
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• Car hanging over embankment in Golden...

  16-07-2017 06:49
  
  A person had to be cut from their vehicle and rushed to the hospital after a wreck that left an SUV hanging over an embankment.        
  
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• 25-year-old falls over 150 feet to...

  16-07-2017 06:49
  
  Two close friends were mountain climbing when one fell at least 160 feet.        
  
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• Police Issue New Plea For Tips One Year After Teen’s Disappearance

  16-07-2017 06:16
  By Kelly Werthmann
  AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – It’s been exactly one year since an Aurora teen disappeared, and police created a new video pleading for the public’s help as well as increased the reward for information.
  Lashaya Stine (credit: Aurora Police)
  Lashaya Stine, now 17, went missing the night of July 15, 2016. The teen was last seen on surveillance video walking near N. Peoria St. and E. Montview Blvd. around 2:30 in the morning. Her wallet, clothes and cellphone charger we
  
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• Detectives investigating after gun...

  16-07-2017 05:45
  
  Deputies were originally called to the scene at 12:17 p.m. after some vendors were setting up their space when a gun went off, hitting another employee.       
  
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• Cherry Creek receiver commits to CU...

  16-07-2017 05:31
  
  Summer is the perfect time out side the hustle of school and sports for loads of student athletes to consider their futures after high school.        
  
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• Mets power past Rockies in 9-3 victory

  16-07-2017 04:42
  
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Jay Bruce and pitcher Seth Lugo homered during an early barrage that sent the New York Mets past Colorado 9-3 on Saturday night for their second straight lopsided victory over the reeling Rockies out of the All-Star break.       
  
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• ‘Negligently Discharged’ Gun Sends Gun Show Attendee To Hospital

  16-07-2017 04:41
  By Dillon Thomas
  DENVER (CBS4) – According to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, one man was shot while attending the Tanner Gun Show Saturday.
  (credit: CBS)
  Witnesses told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas the man was shot by another attendee, unintentionally.
  “There was a bang, and then a gentleman screamed,” one witness, who wished not to be identified, said. “I saw a man bleeding from the lower right leg.”
  The witness CBS4 spoke with rushed to the scene of where
  
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• Struggling Month-Old Baltimore Giraffe Put Down

  16-07-2017 02:38
  
  BALTIMORE, Md. (CBS4) – A baby giraffe which struggled from the outset was euthanized today at the Baltimore Zoo.
  Today, zoo staff wrote on Facebook, “It’s hard to even write the words. Julius is gone.”The zoo chronicled Julius’s journey in great detail, including concerns for his failure to nurse regularly from his mother in the days following his birth.
  ( credit – Facebook/Maryland Zoo In Baltimore)
  Zoo staff intervened quickly after other blood tests indica
  
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• Plenty of Clouds over the Eastern Plains

  16-07-2017 02:00
  
  By Dave Aguilera
  DENVER (CBS4) – A weak storm system wobbling over the eastern plains really got a few good rain producing thunderstorms going on Saturday. Some areas near Parker and Deer Trail received anywhere from a quarter of an inch to over one inch of rainfall late Saturday afternoon.
  This moisture is the combination of a small low pressure disturbance over the Palmer Divide, monsoon moisture and cooler air pushing into the region.
  At the same time slightly drier air is pushing in fr
  
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• Motorist avoid toddler tossed onto...

  16-07-2017 01:45
  
  Colorado Springs Police arrested Bryant Hickcox for attempted murder after he reportedly tossed his 2-year-old cousin onto a busy road.       
  
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• Group Pushes for Green Roofs Across Denver

  16-07-2017 00:59
  DENVER, Colo. (CBS4) – A group of activists is pushing for a new building code that would require rooftop gardens on large structures across the city and county of Denver.
  Specialized gardens known as green roofs are designed to improve urban air quality and cool temperatures.
  Similar initiatives are already in place in cities like San Francisco and Toronto.
  “We need to act on climate change now,” said Brandon Rietheimer of the Denver Green Roof Initiative (denvergreenroof.org)
  
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• CBS4 Sports Poll: Which kid was the best sports show-off?

  16-07-2017 00:54
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• One Rescued, But Second Llama Is On The Lam

  16-07-2017 00:48
  
  BIG THOMPSON CANYON, Colo. (CBS4) – Swiftwater rescue personnel crossed the Big Thompson River near Estes Park Thursday to secure a wayward llama, but another llama is still at large.
  ( credit – Facebook/Loveland Fire Rescue Authority)
  Loveland Fire Rescue Authority and Estes Park Fire Department crews descended a highway embankment, carefully crossed to the south side of the river, and walked the bank to capture Speckles. Speckles did not pose a significant flight risk since the ani
  
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• Young mountain lion looking for...

  16-07-2017 00:44
  
  Remember what it was like when you first visited Centennial? This mountain lion probably won't.       
  
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• Stabbing Suspect’s Flight From Scene Ends With Car In Pond

  16-07-2017 00:08
  
  LAPORTE, Colo. (CBS4) – A Fort Collins man is in custody for numerous charges after a pre-dawn stabbing and crash Saturday morning in Laporte.
  Deputies from the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported stabbing at 4:41 a.m. Saturday in the 3200 block of West County Road 54G. There, they found a male with a non-life threatening laceration and a female who had been physically assaulted.
  A suspect was identified, as was his vehicle.
  That suspect, 32-year-old Brian Rory De
  
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• Former Broncos coach Babe Parilli dies

  16-07-2017 00:08
  
  Vito “Babe” Parilli, who helped guide quarterback Craig Morton to glory in the Denver Broncos’ first Super Bowl-appearing season of 1977, died Saturday morning, the New England Patriots announced.       
  
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