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A unique piece of folk art in the form of a wooden cabinet is fetching a $18,508 price tag now that it's been salvaged from a Routt County barn and appraised. Steamboat Moxie Home Consignments and Design owner Michelle Caragol said the store had been contacted in early June to pick up some furniture from a Stagecoach home and have it sold on consignment.

Melky Cabrera is a reminder that cheaters are difficult to profile. He's a quiet guy who doesn't hit many home runs or crave attention. He didn't take a performance-enhancing drug to break any records. His motivation was simple: break the bank.

A man who left his dog at the summit of Mount Bierstadt will face animal cruelty charges. Anthony Joseph Ortolani is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 16, according to a Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office media release.

Attorneys for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes sought Thursday to block prosecutors from obtaining records about him from the University of Colorado. In a hearing in Arapahoe County District Court, Holmes' lawyers filed a motion to quash a subpoena for records served on CU by prosecutors.

I've never been to prison, but I can't help but wonder if convicts get a nicer breakfast than what you find on the breakfast buffets at most American chain hotels these days. This year, I've had the displeasure of sampling the breakfast buffets at almost every major hotel chain, including Hampton Inn, Residence Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hilton Garden Inn, Hyatt House, Westin and others.

The flood of injured victims from the Century Aurora 16 theaters, where a lone gunman wrought havoc and death at a midnight premiere, arrived in the wee hours last Friday morning at six metro-area hospitals any way they could get there - in ambulances, police cars, even private vehicles.

AURORA - One of the victims in the Aurora theater shooting said Wednesday he

AURORA - While Aurora Police charged into a multiplex theater within three minutes of the first report of a shooting there, more than 20 additional minutes passed before medical personnel arrived at the epicenter, a period when at least one victim was still alive but in desperate need of medical attention.

Background checks for people wanting to buy guns in Colorado jumped more than 41 percent after Friday morning's shooting at an Aurora movie theater, and firearms instructors say they're also seeing increased interest in the training required for a concealed-carry permit. "It's been insane," Jake Meyers, an employee at Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo in Parker, said Monday.

WIMBLEDON, England-Pete Sampras expects Roger Federer to beat Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final, allowing the Swiss star to tie two of the American's records: seven titles at the All England Club, and 286 weeks ranked No. 1. "Personally," Sampras said with a chuckle, "I've gotten used to Roger breaking my records."

Jeffrey Lucas describes his first person point of view while evacuating his family's home in the Mountain Shadows area in Colorado Springs.

Hashtags are the simplest, but also among the most effective, tools Twitter offers when it comes to Colorado's plague of wildfires. If you're not new to Twitter, you know what a hashtag is. But if you don't, here's a quick look: A hashtag is any string of letter and numbers preceded immediately by a hash, or pound sign.

DENVER - Mayor Michael B. Hancock today appointed Rowena Alegría as Director of Communications. Alegría recently served as Editor and Publisher of The Denver Post's Viva Colorado and has nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of journalism and communications.

Denver's newly named archbishop, Samuel J. Aquila, bishop of the small Fargo Diocese in North Dakota, indicated Tuesday he will have one foot planted in the pastoral care of his 550,000-member flock and one just as firmly placed in the public square as his predecessor, Charles Chaput.

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This installment of Rapids player ratings come courtesy of Craig de Aragon, a longtime Rapids fan, committee member with the Class VI supporters group and current Rapids correspondent on the "Around The League" show on the Champions Soccer Radio Network: I spent Saturday morning sitting in a classroom learning how to do CPR and First Aid.

Colorado breweries on Saturday night brought home 27 medals - 13 of them gold - at the World Beer Cup, an elite international competition staged every two years by the Boulder-based Brewers Association. Longtime Denver brewery Bull & Bush had an outstanding showing, getting called to the podium four times.

The bear famously tranquilized on the University of Colorado campus last week, and immortalized in a viral photo by CU student Andy Duann, met a tragic death early Thursday in the Denver-bound lanes of U.S. 36. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said a 280-pound black bear that died on U.S.

A member of the Secret Service who posted a Denver Post photo of himself with Sarah Palin on his Facebook page now probably wishes he hadn't. The photo of Palin and agent David Chaney - and the interesting comment he posted with it - has gone viral after he resigned in the wake of the prostitute scandal enveloping his agency.