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Driver dies in plunge off mountain road

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
Booze and speed proved a deadly combination for a pickup driver who lost control and plunged off Cottonwood Pass Road in Eagle County according to the Colorado State Patrol.
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Ambulance response times targeted

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
The Denver City Council's finance committee on Wednesday endorsed a $51.9 million operating agreement with the Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
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Girl, 17, wounded in Thornton shooting

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
An alleged drug deal gone bad preceded the shooting of a 17-year-old girl Tuesday night near a park in Thornton, police say.
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Federal grand jury indicts nurse on tampering charges

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
A federal grand jury indicted a 27-year-old former surgical nurse on 175 counts of tampering and creating a counterfeit controlled substance after he allegedly stole doses of a powerful painkiller from patients at Boulder Community Hospital.
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Neighbors sack football field rehab

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
To City Councilman Chris Nevitt, it was "a match made in heaven."
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Third-graders try their hand at writing novel

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
A classroom of third-graders at Douglas County's Acres Green Elementary School will also be a classroom of novelists by the end of November.
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Extra! Nov. 20

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
Ousted Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave is making national headlines - and not the good kind.
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Federal air rule alarms regulators

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
A three-year effort to improve air quality at Rocky Mountain National Park could suffer a setback if a proposed federal rule is finalized this year, regulators in the state said Wednesday.
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AmeriCorps honors youthful volunteers

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
Kim Struyk and nine of her teammates spent three weeks last spring pulling weeds in Boulder's expansive greenbelt.
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Reward in Vail's Two Elk Lodge arson

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
The FBI on Wednesday offered a $50,000 reward for information on four radical environmentalists accused of a string of arsons, including the massive 1998 fire on Vail Mountain.
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Woman hit trying to cross freeway

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
Westbound U.S. 6 at Kipling Street was closed for two hours Wednesday morning after a woman trying to cross the busy freeway was hit by a car.
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Man arrested after highway, street chase

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
A driver led authorities on a wild chase - hitting speeds up to 110 mph - before he was arrested Wednesday in Denver.
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Firefighters douse roadside blazes

Rocky Mountain News - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:05am
A truck spewing red-hot debris ignited at least nine brush fires along Titan Road in Douglas County, according to a statement by South Metro Fire Rescue Authority.
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Commissioners split meeting in 2

Gazette Local - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:59pm
Today's El Paso County commissioner meeting will be split into two segments and held at two places.Commissioners will start their meeting at 9 a.m.
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Boy Scouts take up bells at kettles

Gazette Local - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:56pm
The Boy Scouts of America will ring bells at The Salvation Army's red kettles throughout El Paso County on Saturday.
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400 floodway trees to be cut

Gazette Local - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:46pm
The city of Colorado Springs will cut down more than 400 trees this winter in the Templeton Gap Floodway to protect property owners and the city should flooding occur in the area.
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Jeffco claims victory after woman drops lawsuit

Rocky Mountain News - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 8:11pm
Jefferson County scored a victory when an Arvada woman admitted that her lawsuit against Commissioner Jim Congrove had no merit, county officials said Wednesday.
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SIDE STREETS: Artificial potholes, real parking problems

Gazette Local - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:42pm
Kim Polomka may be the only person in Colorado Springs to ever request a pothole.
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Meth, mushroom operation busted in Boulder County

Rocky Mountain News - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:36pm
Sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic-dispute call Tuesday found a methamphetamine and hallucinogenic mushroom operation in Coal Creek Canyon south of Boulder.
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Man shot at Wal-Mart after cop hit with Taser

Rocky Mountain News - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:03pm
A man grabbed a police officer's Taser outside a Lakewood Wal-Mart on Wednesday and then was shot by her partner, Lakewood police said.
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