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Colorado Springs-based figure skaters befriended airline crash victims at Wichita camp
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Colorado Springs-based figure skaters befriended airline crash victims at Wichita camp

By Brent Briggeman | The Gazette Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport is small. The U.S. Figure Skating community, at its top levels, is even smaller. So when a national development camp for up-and-coming skaters wrapped up on Wednesday, the competitors and coaches arrived at the airport around the same time and used the extra time to chat and say goodbyes from nearby spots in the 10-gate airport. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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HB 1113 would task Colorado cities, counties with limiting amount and type of grass allowed around homes by 2028
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HB 1113 would task Colorado cities, counties with limiting amount and type of grass allowed around homes by 2028

By Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun Local governments across Colorado would be required by 2028 to enact or update ordinances limiting the amount and type of grass that could be planted around new or redeveloped residential property under a bill before the state legislature this year. House Bill 1113 would leave it up to counties, municipalities and local districts to determine how to limit turf grass and how to define redevelopment. The measure would also extend a prohibition on the installation of nonfunctional turf to new and redeveloped condominium and apartment complexes. It would go into effect in 2028, building off a bill passed by the legislature last year prohibiting local governments from installing nonfunctional turf on medians and right-of-ways. READ THE FULL STOR...
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Tour guide who died at Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine fell out of elevator after apparently not latching door
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Tour guide who died at Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine fell out of elevator after apparently not latching door

By CBS Colorado A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained by The Associated Press show. As the elevator descended, the door swung out and caught the side of the mine shaft, the guide fell out and he ended up landing on top of one of the tourists as the elevator continued its descent, investigators determined. The harrowing account of the October accident that killed Patrick Weier, 46, at the Mollie Kathleen Mine was included in an investigative report obtained by AP in response to a public records request. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Fifth Circuit declares age restrictions on adult handgun purchases unconstitutional
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Fifth Circuit declares age restrictions on adult handgun purchases unconstitutional

By Christina van Waasbergen  | Courthouse News Service A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Thursday that a decades-old federal law banning handgun purchases by 18 to 20-year-olds violates the Second Amendment. The ruling is an about-face from a prior ruling where the appeals court initially found the law constitutional in 2012. The three-judge panel attributed the switch up to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which held that gun restrictions must be consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation in the U.S. "Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals among 'the people' whose right to keep and bear arms is protected. The fed...
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Aurora police seek community help with funds for K-9 bullet-resistant vests
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Aurora police seek community help with funds for K-9 bullet-resistant vests

By Greg Nieto | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News The Aurora Police Department is asking the community for help raising money for K-9 bullet-resistant vests. The agency is partnering with 30×30 Fundraising, an online nonprofit aimed at stemming the flood of requests for K-9 vests. That’s because each vest costs about $3,500 — other matters needing funds get higher priority. “They’re bullet-proof, stab-proof, shrapnel-proof,” said officer and K-9 handler Robert Wong. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31 NEWS
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Advance Colorado ballot measure would end Colorado’s sanctuary state policy
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Advance Colorado ballot measure would end Colorado’s sanctuary state policy

By Derek Draplin | The Center Square  A proposed ballot measure would require law enforcement in Colorado to cooperate with federal immigration detainer requests. The measure, filed by the conservative advocacy group Advance Colorado, is in response to Colorado’s so-called “Sanctuary State” status protecting illegal immigrants. "State and local law enforcement must cooperate with federal requests to notify the Department of Homeland Security prior to release and detain inmates if: (A) the inmate is charged with a crime of violence as defined by C.R.S,; or (B) the inmate has been convicted of a prior felony,” the measure reads. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE CENTER SQUARE
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Trump moving forward with tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, targeting trade, border and fentanyl concerns
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Trump moving forward with tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, targeting trade, border and fentanyl concerns

By John Carney | Breitbart The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump will impose new tariffs on major U.S. trading partners this weekend, strengthening his administration’s efforts to protect American industry and national security. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that a 25 percent tariff will be placed on goods from Mexico and Canada, while Chinese imports will face a 10 percent duty. The move, she said, is aimed at holding these countries accountable for their role in drug trafficking and securing fairer trade terms for American workers. “These nations have all enabled illegal drugs to pour into America,” Leavitt said. “The amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border in recent years alone has the potential to kill tens of millions o...
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Trump to send thousands of migrants to Gitmo after Biden considered doing exactly the same thing
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Trump to send thousands of migrants to Gitmo after Biden considered doing exactly the same thing

By Jason Hopkins | Daily Caller President Donald Trump ordered his administration to send tens of thousands of illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay to help aid in his large-scale detention and deportation operation. For more than two decades, the Cuba-based Guantanamo Bay Naval Base has been used to hold suspected terrorists. While speaking at a ceremony for the signing of the Laken Riley Act, the president revealed that he would also be ordering the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to construct a facility at the base to hold as many as 30,000 illegal migrants in an area distinct from where suspected terrorists are currently detained. This is not the first time the U.S. has utilized Guantanamo Bay for migrant detention. The Clinton administra...
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Disgraceful, discriminatory hiring — by CU
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Disgraceful, discriminatory hiring — by CU

By The Gazette Editorial board, Commentary Colorado’s most prominent higher-ed institution, the University of Colorado system, has discreetly changed the name of the office that oversees its controversial “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs — i.e., institutionalized discrimination. It’s as if CU wanted the change to fly under the radar. The new name, the Office of Collaboration, is vague enough to escape notice. And it wasn’t publicized through an official announcement; it was outed on X by a user who presumably didn’t speak for the CU system. When The Gazette pressed CU’s front office for details, a spokesperson referred our news staffer to a page on the university’s website that the spokesperson said was “all the comment we’ll be making on this at this time.” The webpage ...
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Gov. Polis calls for investigation into Morgan County water district disaster
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Gov. Polis calls for investigation into Morgan County water district disaster

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado After years of fighting for clean drinking water, a Morgan County neighborhood is finally getting help. A series of stories by CBS Colorado exposed a water district disaster 20 years in the making and got the attention of Gov. Jared Polis. Now, he's doing what many other government officials have failed to do - he's helping. The governor says every Coloradan deserves to have clean water. Yet, all the checks and balances meant to ensure safe drinking water failed at Prairie View Ranch Water District and residents say the people they turned to for help turned a blind eye. Their drinking water is now black sludge that certified lab tests show has unsafe levels of radioactive lead and uranium. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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