Charges filed in Adams County against "Good Grammar Bandit"

Charges were filed Thursday against a bank robber only an English teacher could love.

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VA watchdog never finished an inquiry into Aurora hospital

From 2010 through 2014, the internal watchdog at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued more than 1,500 reports on the sprawling federal agency — each intended to investigate, improve or fact-check the VA. But not a single one focused on the agency's unfinished hospital in Aurora.

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Former Adams County deputy acquitted of sexually assaulting child

A former Adams County sheriff's deputy who was fired a year ago after being arrested and accused of sexually assaulting a child was acquitted Thursday of the charges.

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DPS pension bill dies; backers blame DC politics, concerns over Bennet

Intense negotiations are underway at the state Capitol to try to revive a Denver Public Schools pension bill that critics claim was killed by Republicans because of former DPS superintendent

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Colorado bill to raise school's liability moves out of House committee

An amended version of a bill that would allow victims and relatives of school violence to sue school districts passed out of committee in the Colorado House on Thursday.

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Colorado plague outbreak in 2014 might have been rare case

Local and federal investigators reported Thursday that four human cases of plague in June and July in the Denver metro area might have involved the first known incidence of person-to-person

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Convicted payroll tax cheat is informant in Denver bribery cases

This week's indictment for bribery of a Denver city employee who was the best man at Mayor Michael Hancock's wedding is part of a broader investigation by federal and state prosecutors that

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12 female police officers sue Colorado Springs department

Twelve Colorado Springs policewomen who didn't pass the department's physical fitness tests on their first try have sued the department for discrimination.

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Brandon Hansen gets eight years for secretly filming women in tanning beds

A man who admitted to breaking into tanning booths at a Lakewood salon and secretly taking video of unclothed women has been to eight years in prison, followed by 10 years of sex offender

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Denver partnering with feds to battle increase in gang killlings

Denver officials along with state and federal justice and law enforcement representatives gathered Thursday to announce a tough, coordinated effort to battle the increased gang violence.

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