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Elvis Dumervil’s season is officially sacked

The U.S. Forest Service in Colorado is urging the public to watch out for beetle-infested trees in the forests because they can easily fall.

The funeral for a girl who was found dead in the crawl space of a vacant home will be Friday.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck is a far-right ideologue or a principled conservative who sticks to his beliefs when they’re not popular. It all depends on who’s describing Buck, and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet’s ability to do so could decide the fate of his own tough re-election bid.

Minutes after the parking gates opened at 8 a.m., a line of revelries for the rivalry were well under way for the Cinch Jeans Rocky Mountain Showdown today at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium.

A $926 million award to thousands of Colorado homeowners in a lawsuit involving plutonium contamination from a now-defunct nuclear weapons plant was thrown out Friday by a federal appeals court.

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ARVADA – Police Chief Don Wick announced during a Friday afternoon news conference that a fourth officer has resigned in connection with allegations involving excessive force.

DENVER (AP) – Firefighters responding to a blazing plane at Denver International Airport found a calm scene, with passengers standing in the darkness in snow as flames shooting out of the jetliner lit up the nighttime sky.

Loveland’s King of Glory Lutheran Church has always made an effort to relieve hunger around the world, including through work with and donations to international nonprofits. Yet recently, a group of its parishioners planted an idea of a simple way to fight hunger right here at home.

State wildlife officials are defending decisions to kill six bears this week that busted into two different Colorado Springs homes.

DECISION 2010 SECTION
DENVER – Even after two more party leaders pulled their support on Friday, multiple Republican Party sources have told 9NEWS that Dan Maes is staying in the Colorado gubernatorial race.

FORT COLLINS – The Fort Collins Natural Areas program has paid $800,000 for the 23-acre site near the east side of Fossil Creek Reservoir.

It will be warm through the weekend, with highs in the low 90s both Saturday and Sunday.

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Cheyenne Mountain High School plans to begin voluntary drug testing later this month.

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – A second person has been sentenced for their role in an escape from the Mesa County Jail in 2008.

YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – In the end, Earl’s worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.

Chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked New Zealand’s South Island early Saturday.

MONUMENT (AP) – The funeral for a girl who was found dead in the crawl space of a vacant home will be Friday.

DENVER (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service in Colorado is urging the public to watch out for beetle-infested trees in the forests because they can easily fall.

Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.

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TASTE OF COLORADO 2010
DENVER – From big-time sports to tasty treats, Denver is going off this Labor Day weekend. With A Taste of Colorado bringing out the heavy musical artillery in the form of Bret Michaels and The Four Tops and the Rockies facing the Reds at home, there is plenty to do right around downtown.

KUSA – Throughout the 2010 election season, 9NEWS will hold those who run commercials on our networks accountable for what they say.

DECISION 2010 SECTION
PUEBLO (AP) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck is a far-right ideologue or a principled conservative who sticks to his beliefs when they’re not popular. It all depends on who’s describing Buck, and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet’s ability to do so could decide the fate of his own tough re-election bid.
- TRUTH TEST: More context for Buck’s comments
- TRUTH TEST: Bennet’s ’spending spree’

DENVER (AP) – A $926 million award to thousands of Colorado homeowners in a lawsuit involving plutonium contamination from a now-defunct nuclear weapons plant was thrown out Friday by a federal appeals court.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Six chainsaws, a few hand tools and a dead cottonwood tree – they are not the instruments of a typical artist.

GOLDEN (DP) – The $926 million award to as many as 15,000 property owners living downwind of the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant was thrown out Friday by a federal appeals court.

FORT COLLINS – Mark Brooks was selling cars three years ago. But his sales tanked with the economy so he called it quits and tried something else.

MILLIKEN – Investigators are trying to determine what started a fire that destroyed an historic schoolhouse early Saturday morning.

AURORA – Raul Gutierrez says he never closes the door to his studio to anybody.

LAKEWOOD – With steady hands directing a busy sewing machine, Donna Ogden warms her heart by sewing a blanket that will keep others warm.

ARVADA – McKenzie Pedersen goes to class at Ralston Valley High School like every other student. But when she leaves campus, her school day does not end.

GRAND LAKE – At Gifts Unlimited in Grand Lake, owner Shelly Richmond has a massive medley of moose items.

A woman was killed about 4 p.m. today near Georgetown Lake when the jeep she was in fell from 1,200 to 1,300 feet, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

The Humane Society of Boulder Valley had their second-largest adoption day ever today, placing 106 cats and dogs in new homes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement in its civil lawsuit against former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio.

The Douglas County Bomb Squad was searching a Highlands Ranch home Friday after rigged propane tanks were found in the home earlier.

A high school student says campus security told him his American flags aren’t welcome on the school grounds.

ARVADA — Another member of the Arvada police department has resigned in connection with a case involving alleged use of excessive force.

Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman has a message for Colorado State and University of Colorado football fans: Be nice or leave.

Arvada Police Chief Don Wick issued a statement Friday afternoon and answered questions regarding an investigation in an excessive force case that resulted in the resignations of four officers and the suspension of two others.

DENVER – Women aging in range from 19 to 95 are getting together in Denver this weekend.

Officers are removing chemicals and equipment from what they’re calling a “significant meth lab” in an Erie neighborhood.

Even as more prominent Republicans are pulling their support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes, he says he’s standing firm.

Greeley police have arrested six people and are seeking a seventh in the assault of a jogger in a city park.

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY – The Colorado State Patrol is investigating a deadly crash that happened Friday afternoon near Georgetown Lake.

The Aurora City Council on Friday announced it has narrowed the field of city manager candidates to two: Nancy Freed, the city’s interim manager, and George “Skip” Noe, a management consultant

DENVER (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service in Colorado is urging the public to watch out for beetle-infested trees in the forests because they can easily fall.

DENVER – Metropolitan State College of Denver is planning to build a 150-room hotel to serve as a training facility for students.

A homeless man convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the parking lot of the Lone Tree library was sentenced Friday to more than 300 years in prison.

A man who attacked and sexually assault a 16-year-old girl in the parking lot of the Lone Tree Library was sentenced today to 336 years in prison.

A 58-year-old Colorado Springs man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for aiding in the preparation of a false tax return, federal officials said Friday.

A man’s body was found face down in a Denver park this morning. Police received a call at 7 a.m. about the body, and the first officers on the scene determined that the man was dead, said Lt. Matt Murray, a Denver Police Department spokesman.

DENVER – After four years off the air, Jammin' says they are back on in Denver.

It’s happy trails for Buckskin Joe, the replica Old West town in Colorado that served as a setting as for Westerns like “True Grit” and “Cat Ballou.”

A person familiar with the injury tells The Associated Press that Denver Broncos tailback LenDale White has a ruptured Achilles’ tendon and is out for the season.

A Utah man was arrested near Eagle Wednesday evening after motorists called to report a driver speeding and driving erratically.

More than 200 marijuana plants were found Thursday in a Broomfield home by officers of the Broomfield Police Department and the North Metro Drug Task Force, officials said today.

With the 5 p.m. deadline for ballot certification approaching, Senate candidate Ken Buck and Rep. Mike Coffman this afternoon became the latest Republicans to pull their support from gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes.

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FORT COLLINS (AP) – The family at the center of the balloon boy hoax has moved out of the house where the fateful trip began, leaving Colorado for Florida.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A woman accused off pretending to have cancer and accepting sympathy donations was back in court on Friday.
- Friend says she was ‘taken in’ by woman who faked cancer

A man arrested on suspicion of DUI told a deputy that he was speeding and driving erratically to make it to a hospital before his son died.

GREELEY – Police say they have now arrested a total of seven people in connection to a jogger who was attacked last week and two more could still be arrested.

The moral of this story might be: Don’t bite the hand that bails you out.

The family who put the spotlight on Colorado last fall has left the state.

General rule of thumb: when looking to buy marijuana, don’t text the sheriff.

The 2-1/2-year-old boy trampled by a female moose yesterday at Shadow Mountain Reservoir in Grand County is “doing well” and has been released from Children’s Hospital, his family said in a statement today.

FORT CARSON (AP) – A Fort Carson soldier from Nebraska who was killed in Afghanistan has been posthumously promoted.

A teenage girl and her father are facing charges after authorities said the girl brought a loaded gun through airport security.

University of Colorado football fans will get an eyeful Saturday when they look into the sky over Invesco Field in Denver.

LITTLETON – Derek DesLauriers of Littleton competed in two national go-kart races this summer.

A 2 ½-year-old boy was hurt after he was run over by a moose while playing on a Grand County beach with his brother.

Burglars stole several weapons and an old police badge during a home robbery Thursday.

A person walking through the park made a grisly discovery Friday morning.

DENVER – According to our partners at the Denver Post, Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl has been cleared by doctors to return to coaching.

A man and his daughter were caught Monday attempting to pass through security at Denver International Airport with a loaded gun, according to a Denver District Attorney’s Office news release.

Longmont police are looking for a man suspected of taking part in an early morning brawl that involved guns, knives and axes.

A boy running to catch up to his sister on the way to school was hit by a car.

DENVER – It is less than one week until the E-3 Job and Resource Fair at the Colorado Convention Center and the Rocky Mountain Association of Recruiters has some words of encouragement for people who are job hunting.

Secretary of State Bernie Buescher says he will certify the November ballot by the close of business Friday, despite an ongoing campaign by the Colorado Republican Party to recruit a new gubernatorial candidate.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Tim Tebow’s first two series had rookie written all over them. Then he started playing with the veteran-like poise that helped him get drafted in the first round by Denver in the first place.

CANON CITY (AP) – It’s happy trails for Buckskin Joe, the replica Old West town in Colorado that served as a setting as for Westerns like “True Grit.”

CARBONDALE — A dietary-based concern for her daughter’s health in early childhood ended up saving Kimberly Williams’ life.

DENVER – Authorities are investigating a death as suspicious after a body was found near a recreation center Friday.

Colorado could join 15 other states in allowing advanced-practice nurses to administer anesthesia without a doctor’s supervision.

Drivers on southbound Interstate 25 ran into major backups on Thursday evening when the highway was shut down for nearly an hour at the Interstate 225 interchange.

When most people look up on their roof they see shingles, vents and maybe even some solar panels. When Roger Wimmer looks at his roof he sees something a little different.

Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said: “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?”

DENVER – The family of a toddler who was injured in an incident with a moose on Thursday says the boy is doing well.

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DENVER (AP) – Secretary of State Bernie Buescher says he will certify the November ballot by the close of business Friday, despite an ongoing campaign by the Colorado Republican Party to recruit a new gubernatorial candidate.

The nation’s unemployment rate has risen slightly to 9.6 percent.

The nation’s unemployment rate has risen slightly to 9.6 percent.

7NEWS checked the “facts or fiction” of a political ad against Republican Senatorial candidate Ken Buck, paid for by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., entitled: “Too Extreme.”

The family of a man who died at Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo says their son should not have died and that the hospital won’t give them any information about how the patient died while he was being restrained by hospital staff.

A driver is dead after his tractor-trailer hit a buffalo and rolled over in eastern Colorado.

Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar says the federal government should be responsible for covering the out-of-state tuition costs for Native American students at Fort Lewis College.

U.S. Rep. John Salazar says the federal government should be responsible for covering the out-of-state tuition costs for Native American students at Fort Lewis College.

Several high profile Republicans are pulling their support from Republican Gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes.

Two Arvada police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation looking into allegations of inappropriate conduct by members of the department.

DENVER (AP) – Colorado could join 15 other states in allowing advanced-practice nurses to administer anesthesia without a doctor’s supervision.