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Incorrect Colorado sentencing calculations lead to multiple inmate returns to prison

This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | After he received a community corrections placement in Larimer County, Billy Hailey found work for eight months as a CrossFit instructor at local gyms, building up a clientele of two dozen people. He began thinking about his life during his anticipated parole placement, set for […]

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EMAIL TRAIL: How Riverstone Academy became Colorado’s first publicly funded religious school

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. DENVER | When the leaders of a new elementary school applied for a four-digit public school code from the Colorado Department of Education last summer, they didn’t mention a key detail: The school would be religious. Instead, they said Riverstone Academy would offer traditional academics and trade-themed electives. […]

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How artists transformed a former hospital in Los Angeles to examine human emotions

LOS ANGELES | Just beyond an ambulance and wheelchair ramp wait Dr. Moodswing and Dr. Feelgood, dressed in starched white lab coats and ready to check you in with a neon orange patient wristband. At this hospital though, it’s not your vitals that will be examined, but your feelings. The “Hospital of Emotions” is an […]

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Toon in Thursday

Read more THURSDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video Read more US Biathlon considers joining US Ski & Snowboard in rare merger of Olympic sport organizations Read more QUIDNUNC: Big dis-Harmony over having to put up with lifestyles of Aurora’s little people

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US Biathlon considers joining US Ski & Snowboard in rare merger of Olympic sport organizations

U.S. Biathlon is poised to move under the control of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, a rare merger of two Olympic sport organizations that officials say is necessary to boost biathlon’s revenues and performance but athletes worry will hurt the sport. U.S. Biathlon Association’s board of directors is set to vote on the plan Wednesday. They […]

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QUIDNUNC: Big dis-Harmony over having to put up with lifestyles of Aurora’s little people

QUID HAS HEARD that there’s no present like the time it takes to think up things in Aurora that go grump in the night. Seems that one of the many wonders of the third-largest city in Colorado this week goes to the folks living in the northeast part of town in the Harmony tract-housing development […]

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Urban League report says Trump administration is harming Black Americans’ chances at American Dream

WASHINGTON | The American Dream may not be dead for many Black Americans, but it is further away than at any point since the Civil Rights Movement, warns a report by the National Urban League. Released on Thursday, the annual “State of Black America” report grimly describes Black Americans ‘ economic and political prospects as […]

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New poll finds Trump’s approval on handling Iran fell to 28%; Overall approval at 33%

WASHINGTON | Most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting, and President Donald Trump’s approval rating on Iran has fallen slightly since last month, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The results are a stark repudiation of the Republican president’s approach to the conflict, which has dragged on far longer than […]