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• Bear Breaks Into Home In Search Of Food

  20-05-2018 23:40
  JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– A bear broke into a home in Pine on Sunday morning but by the time deputies arrived, the bear had left.
  According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, a bear broke into a home in the 12900 block of Parker Avenue in Pine just before noon.
  A bear broke into a home in Jefferson County on Sunday (credit: CBS)
  The bear apparently tore a screen and pushed open a door in search of food. The bear was in the basement when the homeowners called authorities.
  
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• Suspect Arrested After Hit & Run Crashes With Vehicles, Tree

  20-05-2018 22:12
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4)– A man was arrested after police say the car he was driving struck at least three cars before crashing into a tree.
  The crashes happened just after noon on Sunday on South Broadway.
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  Police in Englewood say the incident appears to have started as a domestic dispute that started on Dartmouth.
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  The first crash scene is at the Walgreens at Dartmouth and South Broadway and the second scene is Cornell and South Broadway.
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  The man wa
  
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• Bears Break Into Home In Search Of Food

  20-05-2018 21:40
  JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Two bears broke into a home in Pine on Sunday morning but by the time deputies arrived, the bears had left.
  According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, two bears broke into a home in the 12900 block of Parker Avenue in Pine just before noon.
  The bears apparently tore a screen and pushed open a door in search of food. They were in the basement when the homeowners called authorities.
  There was no other damage to the home and no injuries.
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• ‘We Can Defend Ourselves’: Gun Enthusiasts Rally For 2nd Amendment

  20-05-2018 20:58
  By Melissa Garcia
  LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4)– Gun enthusiasts gathered for a rally in Longmont to defend their 2nd Amendment rights, after a city council in the same county recently voted to ban assault weapons.
  Some of the rally goers who lined up with signs and flags at the intersection of Nelson Street and Hover Road on Saturday openly carried pistols and semi-automatic rifles as part of the demonstration.
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  Other attendees chose not to carry openly in the wake of Friday’s
  
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• Whitewater River In Colorado A Bright Spot Amid Grim Drought

  20-05-2018 20:25
  SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — Despite a severe drought across the Southwestern United States this spring, there should be plenty of water for rafters and anglers in one of the nation’s most popular mountain rivers.
  Water from melting snow is rushing into the Arkansas River in central Colorado, thanks to a surprisingly wet winter in the towering peaks where the river begins, state and federal officials say.
  Some of those peaks, in Colorado’s Sawatch Range, stand just outside the drought&
  
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• ALS Warrior Embarks On Death Ride Thanks To Modified Bicycle

  20-05-2018 20:13
  HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (CBS4)– The cycling community has come together to help an ALS warrior be able to participate in his third Death Ride Tour since being diagnosed.
  It’s made possible because of a special bicycle built for two.
  (credit: Zach Yendra)
  Originally designed and built by Zach Yendra to carry kegs for a Fort Collins brewery, cyclist Barry Sopinsky thought this bike just might allow Mike Cimbura to ride again.
  (credit: Zach Yendra)
  Zach knew some modifications would need
  
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• Get Ready For The Denver Arts Festival

  20-05-2018 19:34
  DENVER (CBS4)– The 30th annual Denver Arts Festival is an annual event over Memorial Day weekend. The festival runs May 26 and May 27 at the Conservatory Green in Stapleton.
  It’s the 30th anniversary of the festival.
  Denver Arts Festival director Jim DeLutes tells CBS4 there are more local artists at the festival this year than ever before.
  Denver Arts Festival director Jim DeLutes with CBS4’s Joel Hillan and Chris Spears (credit: CBS)
  Entrance to the Denver Arts Festival is co
  
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• Texas Lieutenant Governor Calls For ‘Hardening’ Of Schools

  20-05-2018 19:25
  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called Sunday for a “hardening” of the nation’s school buildings in the wake of the attack by a 17-year-old student who killed 10 people at a high school near Houston.
  Patrick, a Republican, blamed a “culture of violence” and said more needs to be done to keep shooters away from students, such as restricting school entrances and arming teachers.
  “When you’re facing someone who’s an active shoo
  
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• Latest Forecast: Warmer Days Ahead With Just Scattered Afternoon Storms

  20-05-2018 15:45
  By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – Many communities woke up to low clouds, fog and drizzle this morning. We had a great view of it from the top of Pikes Peak!We’ll see more clouds than sun across Colorado today with temperatures running below normal at many locations.Some much needed moisture fell on the northeast plain of Colorado this weekend with some places racking up over two inches of rain.For today a weak weather disturbance will lift north out of Arizona and into eastern Utah thi
  
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• Colorado’s first female National Guard member being honored

  20-05-2018 08:35
  GREELEY — Weld County is honoring the first woman to serve in Colorado’s Army National Guard.The Greeley Tribune reports that the Weld County Veterans Memorial Committee is recognizing 86-year-old Katherine Ravithis Saturday during its Armed Forces Day.
  Ravithis joined the Colorado Army National Guard in 1972. She says she couldn’t attend her first training camp because there were no women’s facilities, but she always felt like an equal.
  Ravithis had a 20-year military ca
  
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• Colorado transportation officials propose $550M I-70 tunnel

  20-05-2018 08:33
  
  FRISCO — Colorado transportation officials say they want to alleviate congestion and improve safety on a popular mountain highway by boring a new three-lane tunnel for traffic heading from Denver.
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• Gary Russell Jr. retains WBC belt with unanimous decision over Joseph Diaz

  20-05-2018 06:02
  
  By Ian Quillen, The Associated Press
  OXON HILL, Md. — Gary Russell Jr. successfully defended his WBC featherweight championship Saturday night, unanimously outpointing mandatory challenger Joseph Diaz.
  In just his third title defense since April 2016, Russell (29-1) had winning scores of 117-111 from two judges’ scorecards and a 115-113 edge from the third.
  The 29-year-old pounded his chest in celebration as soon as the words “unanimous decision” were announced at
  
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• Inside Boulder detectives’ month-long search for answers in an Arkansas landfill

  20-05-2018 05:55
  
  For weeks last summer, employees of the Boulder Police Department and the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office stood under the blistering Arkansas sun, combing through an entire county’s trash, searching for something.
  They were searching for answers. They were searching for Ashley Mead.
  Months earlier — on Feb. 15, 2017 — a gas station worker in Okmulgee, Okla., had noticed a purple suitcase inside a dumpster. Finding it odd, the woman opened the luggage and made a
  
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• LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers overpower Boston Celtics in Game 3

  20-05-2018 05:13
  
  CLEVELAND — Before taking the floor, LeBron James stood in the hallway with his teammates outside Cleveland’s locker room and pounded his chest with both hands.
  The Celtics got thumped next.
  James had 27 points and 12 assists, Kevin Love added 14 rebounds and the Cavaliers looked like a different team on their home court, tightening the Eastern Conference finals with a 116-86 victory in Game 3 over Boston on Saturday night.
  Outplayed during two losses in Boston, the Cavs used a three
  
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• Santa Fe school had a shooting plan, armed officers, and practice. And still 10 people died.

  20-05-2018 04:48
  
  SANTA FE, Texas — They, like so many others, thought they had taken the steps to avoid this.
  The school district had an active-shooter plan, and two armed police officers walked the halls of the high school. School district leaders had even agreed last fall to eventually arm teachers and staff under the state’s school marshal program, one of the country’s most aggressive and controversial policies intended to get more guns into classrooms.
  They thought they were a hardened targ
  
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• Andrei Vasillevskiy shines late, Tampa Bay Lightning hold off Washington Capitals

  20-05-2018 04:29
  
  TAMPA, Fla. — Cedric Paquette scored in the opening minute and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28 shots to help the Tampa Bay Lightning hold off the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Saturday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final.
  Ondrej Palat and Ryan Callahan also scored as the home team won for the first time in the best-of-seven matchup, with the Lightning taking a 3-2 series lead and moving within one victory of advancing the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in four seasons.
  The Ca
  
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• Cuba: 110 died in plane crash, 3 survivors “critical”

  20-05-2018 04:08
  
  HAVANA — The only three survivors of Cuba’s worst aviation disaster in three decades were clinging to life Saturday, a day after their passenger jet crashed in a fireball in Havana’s rural outskirts with 113 people on board.
  In the first official death toll provided by authorities, Transportation Minister Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez said 110 had died including five children. He also announced that a flight recorder from the plane had been located.
  Carlos Alberto Martinez, director
  
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• Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt to pay for funerals of Santa Fe shooting victims

  20-05-2018 03:52
  
  Houston Texans star defensive end J.J. Watt told officials at Santa Fe High School that he will pay funeral costs for the victims of Friday’s mass shooting, according to multiple reports.
  A 17-year-old student killed 10 people, mostly students, in Friday’s shooting about 30 miles outside Houston, before surrendering to officers, officials said. Ten more were wounded.
  Watt, among the most prominent professional athletes in Houston, tweeted a two-word response to the carnage: “Ab
  
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• Fountain-Fort Carson rules again, winning 5A boys team state track title

  20-05-2018 03:39
  
  LAKEWOOD — Fountain-Fort Carson’s fab foursome — four seniors bound for the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley — capped a dominating Class 5A boys team state title Saturday by easily winning the 4-X-400-meter relay at rainy Jefferson County Stadium.
  Jalen Lyon, who won the 200- and 400-meter dashes earlier in the day, ran the last leg after Jason Ferrell, James Thomas and Deondre Ritter created a giant lead on second-place Poudre and third-place Smoky Hill. Ritter
  
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• Rockies Suffer Loss Against Giants On The Road, 9-4

  20-05-2018 02:01
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Crawford got three more hits and drove in four runs as the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 9-4 on Saturday to end a three-game skid.
  Crawford reached on a bloop single in the second inning, had a two-run double in the third and homered in the sixth following Evan Longoria’s leadoff single. The home run off reliever Chris Rusin was the fourth this season for Crawford and helped raised his batting average to .449 (31 for 69) in May.
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• Albany Holds Off DU In NCAA Lacrosse Quarterfinal 15-13

  20-05-2018 01:51
  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBS4) — The University of Albany came out quickly and held on late in its NCAA quarterfinal men’s lacrosse victory Saturday over the University of Denver.
  Albany scored three goals in the first 2:07 of the contest for an early advantage, though Denver responded with a 5-1 run to take a 5-4 lead with 9:37 to go before halftime.
  Goals by Ethan Walker, Colton McCaffrey, Ted Sullivan, Joe Reid and Colton Jackson put the Pioneers on top.
  It would be DU’s only lead o
  
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• Brits In Colorado Celebrate Both Cultures During Royal Wedding

  20-05-2018 01:14
  HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (CBS4) – While many slept, millions others woke up to watch the Royal Wedding unfold in Windsor, England.
  For some Brits in Colorado, the occasion was momentous.
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  A group of women gathered in Highlands Ranch to watch the re-broadcast of the Royal nuptials.
  Party organizers say they were excited about the wedding, and it gave them the opportunity to celebrate both countries.
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  “Let’s extend it to our American friends who have
  
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• Westboro Baptist Church Plans Protest At Colorado High School

  20-05-2018 00:27
  By Danielle Chavira
  BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – The Westboro Baptist Church says it plans on protesting Broomfield High School’s graduation ceremony on Tuesday.
  Broomfield High School already held their graduation ceremony on Saturday according to the Boulder Valley School District’s website.
  The group, known for hate speech and protests at U.S. service members funerals, says it wants to “bring words of health and life the graduates.”
  Organizers say the students have
  
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• Pueblo Deputies Shoot, Kill Man Who Drew Gun During Arrest

  20-05-2018 00:07
  PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office says a man who pulled a gun on its deputies was fatally shot Saturday morning east of Pueblo.
  Twitter messages issued by the sheriff’s office says deputies were investigating a suspicious vehicle on Acoma Place when they discovered that a person in the vehicle had felony warrants.
  (credit: Twitter/Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office)
  Officials say the man pulled out a gun as deputies were trying to arrest him.
  One or
  
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• Graduate Conquers Disability By Walking Across Stage

  20-05-2018 00:01
  By Dillon Thomas
  LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – A teenager at Chatfield High School in Littleton wouldn’t let his disability stop him from walking across the stage to accept his high school diploma this week.
  (credit: Andrei Gisetti)
  Carson Covey, a graduate of Chatfield High, spent years going through surgeries and intense physical therapy because of his cerebral palsy in order to walk across the Red Rocks Amphitheater stage to accept his diploma.
  According to Head Football Coach Bret Mc
  
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