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7NEWS checked the “facts or fiction” of a political ad paid for by the campaign of Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton, entitled: “High Heels.”

Torrential rains hit the area of Redstone and Marble this afternoon triggering one mudslide on County Road 3 between Marble and Redstone and a second at the north end of Redstone.

Red and blue, Blood and Crip, active gang members and ex-gang members stood side-by-side Saturday at the Heal the Hood Peace March in a display of solidarity and commitment to stopping the violence.

Employees of a sports restaurant who haven’t been paid in nearly a month are literally taking matters into their own hands.

A brilliant white statue of St. Francis — the Patron Saint of Animals — was taken sometime Friday night from the front of the St.

Demaryius Thomas, the Broncos final unsigned draft pick, has agreed to a five-year deal with the Broncos worth $12.155 million, with $9.35 million guaranteed.

DENVER – A Denver man who entered an insanity plea in the beating death of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a barrel has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

An influx of kittens and adult cats has caused animal shelters throughout the Denver metro area to waive adoption fees so the felines can find new homes quickly.

Sen. Michael Bennet told a mixed crowd of supporters and detractors today that his opponent Andrew Romanoff has taken the low road in an attack campaign that misses the mark on accuracy.

Waterton Canyon will close on Monday so that crews can dredge Strontia Springs Reservoir.

THE GREAT HANG UP
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KUSA – All summer long 9NEWS has been sharing stories about the dangers of distracted driving as part of our Great Hang Up campaign.

VAIL, Colo. (AP) – Both Breckenridge and Vail are family-friendly ski towns that attract visitors from around the world each year, so why do the town leaders from each town differ on medical marijuana laws?

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ERIE – Former employees of a popular suburban sports bar stripped at least one of its three locations Friday.

DENVER (AP) – Colorado Republican Chairman Dick Wadhams has had his hands full trying to fend off a party defector from entering the governor’s race. Now there’s a website calling for his ouster as party chief.

GREELEY – No charges will be filed against the driver who crashed into the Visionworks store at the Greeley Mall killing two people, the Weld County District Attorney’s office announced on Friday afternoon.

A Tennessee truck driver accused of plowing through an upscale Colorado neighborhood, damaging 17 parked cars, and knocking down trees, a lamppost, street sign and fence has pleaded guilty to 37 charges, including driving under the influence.

The president of a Colorado think tank has turned in petitions to the state for a ballot proposal aimed at blocking some of the new federal health law.

While the election season in the U.S. is steaming ahead, another campaign is being launched in Colorado by a man who wants to save his native land from graft and greed.

Both Breckenridge and Vail are family-friendly ski towns that attract visitors from around the world each year, so why do the town leaders from each town differ on medical marijuana laws?

A Denver man who entered an insanity plea in the beating death of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a barrel has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A woman who, police say, bound and taped her boyfriend’s puppy to the side of a refrigerator last year is out of jail early.

Leading 5-2, the Colorado Rockies were looking for an insurance run with two outs in the eighth. Fourteen batters later they were comfortably ahead.

BOULDER, Colo.—A woman who, police say, bound and taped her boyfriend’s puppy to the side of a refrigerator last year is out of jail early.

A Longmont farmer said he was pushed off the land he has farmed for years so Heaven Fest could take over for the weekend. Now, he’s worried the damage can’t be undone.

WESTMINSTER – A Colorado city is giving its residents a way to keep up with the development going on at the local mall.

One person was hospitalized with chest pains and two were treated for smoke inhalation when a fire broke out last night on the third floor of an apartment building in Federal Heights.

Fire crews working through the night beat back flames and built containment lines around a two-day old wildfire that charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the high desert north of Los Angeles.

A partnership owned by Williams plans to build a natural gas processing plant in western Colorado.

FORT COLLINS (AP) – The NCAA has granted Colorado State guard Jesse Carr a medical hardship waiver, allowing him to play this season as a redshirt sophomore.

COMMERCE CITY – A family has filed suit against the Commerce City Police officer who shot and killed their dog while checking out a 911 hang-up call.

AURORA – Betty Kendall breaks all the molds and is a big deal because of it. She is not about talk, she is all action and that has made her a bit of a celebrity.

DENVER – Several 9NEWS viewers say coyotes have killed their pets and the Colorado Division of Wildlife says the problem is not going away.

FORT COLLINS – Eleven years ago Jim Broderick sat at the prosecutor’s table during the murder trial for Tim Masters, but Friday morning he stood at the defendant’s lectern facing eight counts of felony perjury.

LOVELAND – Northern Colorado residents soon might be able to complete all pre-flight requirements at the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport, hop on a bus headed to Denver International Airport and be dropped off at the concourse – without having to go through security again.

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DENVER – Veronica DeLeon stepped carefully while walking near 14th and Curtis Streets in her purple satin high-heeled sandals.

DENVER – It just might be the break Denver Police need as they try to make arrests in a series of business break-ins across the metro area.

DENVER – Coloradans may have the opportunity this fall to weigh in on the recent health care legislation passed by Congress. Roughly 130,000 signatures in support of the Right to Health Care Choice amendment to Colorado’s Constitution were turned into the Secretary of State’s office on Friday afternoon.

The man who dragged a stolen dog to death at the Colorado National Monument in December was sentenced today to the maximum prison term of three years.

Former Denver Mayor Wellington E. Webb and his wife, former State Rep. Wilma J. Webb, donated $2,500 to the drive to contribute a portrait of President Obama for to state Capitol.

A lightning strike at about 6:15 p.m. has temporarily shut down southbound light rail.

The lead investigator in the Peggy Hettrick homicide made his first court appearance Friday on charges of perjury.

Lafayette Police and Boulder County SWAT members have arrested a man who was in a standoff threatening to hurt himself today.

Denver police are trying to located people in surveillance photographs as part of an investigation into office burglaries on South Oneida on July 21 and 22.

DENVER (AP) – Colorado Republican Chairman Dick Wadhams has had his hands full trying to fend off a party defector from entering the governor’s race. Now there’s a website calling for his ouster as party chief.

DENVER – Several 9NEWS viewers say coyotes have killed their pets and the Colorado Division of Wildlife says the problem is not going away.

GREELEY – No charges will be filed against the driver who crashed into the Visionworks store at the Greeley Mall killing two people, the Weld County District Attorney’s office announced on Friday afternoon.

The man who crashed into a Visionworks store at the Greeley Mall on July 10, killing two people, crashed because of a medical condition and will not be charged, the district attorney announced

An arrest has been made in connection to a pipe bomb that was found in a Lafayette city park early Tuesday.

Boulder police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in an attempted child enticement early Wednesday.

The Weld County District Attorney’s Office says no charges will be filed against a 30-year-old man whose pickup crashed into a Greeley store, killing two women.

Police officers in Aurora have been given a new regulation: Cover your tattoos or have them removed.

A man from Aurora was sentenced today to 108 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme submitting false tax returns, according to the U.

The three people who died in an accident in Freemont County late Thursday have been identified.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – As many as 2,000 visitors use Waterton Canyon on a busy day. This weekend will be the last time they can do that for a long time.

Canadian authorities say they’ve recovered the body of a Longmont man who crashed in the Northwest Territories on his way back to Colorado.

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KUSA – Thunderstorms on the south and east sides of the metro area on Friday evening produced very heavy rain which lead to street flooding from the Denver Tech Center to Castle Rock.

As organizers make final preparations and assemble stages before the arrival of Saturday’s Heaven Fest concert, Longmont-area businesses and residents are bracing themselves for tens of

Focus on the Family says more of its employees are being laid off, but the numbers haven’t been released.

Sheriff’s officials say a bicyclist who organized a charity race was injured by a small cannon blast and investigators suspect five teenagers of the crime.

The man accused of dragging a dog to death has been sentenced to the maximum provided by the law.

The NTSB is issuing safety recommendations after Continental Flight 1404 ran off a runway at DIA and crashed.

Ahmad Clewis-Green was sane when he beat Esperanza Pardue to death and stuffed her into a multi-gallon drum, a Denver jury decided Friday.

A Broomfield-based restaurant chain closed three of its Colorado restaurants and canceled plans to open 17 others.

A Denver man who shot and killed an assailant in his home will not be charged in the man’s death, the Denver district attorney said today in a news release.

COMMERCE CITY – A family has filed suit against the Commerce City Police officer who shot and killed their dog while checking out a 911 hang-up call.

WESTMINSTER – The Yellow Ribbon Program, helps teenagers who are thinking about the unthinkable – suicide.  It’s also looking to expand its services to help families dealing with teen suicide.  And it’s asking people for donations – and for their vote – which could help it land a grant.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man suspected of assaulting a woman and breaking her ankle in a car-jacking attempt.

FORT COLLINS — Fort Collins Police Lt. Jim Broderick, accused of felony perjury related to his work in the Tim Masters murder investigation, this morning was advised of his rights in a Larimer County court room.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding suspects in a string of office building burglaries in south Denver.

AURORA – Rhonda Fields, the mother of slain Colorado State University graduate Javad Marshall Fields, said Friday she wants to be the Democratic nominee for state representative from House District 42.

Colorado Springs police are investigating two fatal shootings within hours of each other.

DENVER – More than half of the medical marijuana center owners in Colorado have criminal arrest or conviction records for crimes like dealing drugs, sexual assaults, burglaries and weapons, according to statistics by the Drug Enforcement Administration obtained by 9Wants to Know, but that will all change on Sunday.
- Broomfield bans marijuana centers

BRET MICHAELS AND POISON IN DENVER
DENVER – Rocker Bret Michaels, who recently battled back from a brain hemorrhage and surgery, will be taking the stage at A Taste of Colorado in September.

DENVER – Jeffrey Harris, 60, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced Friday to serve 108 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a $3.1 million scheme to submit false tax returns.

Colorado kids will have to ride in booster seats two years longer under a new law that starts Sunday.

Authorities say body found in Washington State may be the body of a man wanted in connection with slaying his girlfriend in Denver.

The University of Colorado reports a 4.7 percent increase in private donations, marking the strongest four-year period ever.

If Colorado voters decide to change the way schools districts can get loans, some districts, like East Grand may be forced to close its doors for three months.

The Denver Five Points community held a rally Thursday night in support of the 84-year-old matriarch they call “Momma” after she was arrested last week.

A transient who used an aerosol can and a match or lighter to set another transient on fire on University Hill last year was sentenced this morning to six years in prison.

BOULDER – After serving more than half of her 30-day sentence, the woman accused of taping her boyfriend’s dog to a refrigerator was released from the Boulder County Jail 10 days early on Friday morning.

A 27-year-old Longmont woman charged with child abuse resulting in death in the February bathtub drowning of her 10-month-old nephew pleaded not guilty this morning and set her case for trial.

DENVER (AP) – Colorado lawmakers and educators say they plan to fight a proposal by the state Board of Education to adopt new teaching standards on Monday to compete for “Race to the Top” education funding, complaining that the state is gambling millions of dollars with no guarantee it will get its money back.

A new website has started a petition drive to oust Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams.

The body of a man found in Washington may be connected to a Denver homicide. Authorities found a badly decomposed body Wednesday in Riffe Lake, south of the Tacoma area, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

A man living near the University of Denver campus wrestled a gun from one of three robbers last night and fatally shot him, Denver police said today.

An alert off-duty police officer saw something suspicious that led to the arrests of people allegedly stealing wallets from tanners.

A Denver towing company that was the subject of a CALL7 Investigation is now facing $208,725 in civil penalties from the state Public Utilities Commission.

COOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) – The fourth grizzly bear believed involved in a triple mauling at a Montana campground has been captured, with DNA tests due Friday that could confirm the family of grizzlies killed a Michigan man and injured two other people.

COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Focus on the Family says some of its employees are being laid off, but the numbers haven’t been released.

Ronald Singer was deep asleep at a Montana campground when he lurched awake to something gnawing on his leg.

Denver Broncos training camp officially starts Aug. 1. Here’s how you can watch.

Longmont police said a door-to-door salesman gave an entirely new meaning to the term hard-sell when they said he became hostile after a homeowner told him no.

Should you have to think twice about eating food while at a public venue? 7NEWS went through food inspection reports for sporting venues dating back to 2001 and found violations you may not know about.

An Eagle County masseur has been arrested on suspicion of unlawful sexual contact, police said.

While Nederland area residents were cleaning up after a major hailstorm, residents downstream in Boulder were breathing a sign of relief.

AUBURN, Ala. - For Sally Credille, everything is negotiable. Whether it’s buying a cellphone, setting up cable service or even paying an electric bill, Credille says she almost always bargains to get a better deal.

Pitkin County will tell homeowners what kind of doorknobs to install because of bear break-ins.

The airport design you’ve grown accustomed to for 15 years may be altered at a cost of $650 million. Denver International Airport unveiled the design for its planned expansion, which includes a 500-room hotel, train station from downtown Denver and new rail bridge that would go over Peña Boulevard.