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Mandela, 95, dies; led South Africa out of apartheid
Former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela has died at age 95, leaving behind a legacy of ending the country's policy of apartheid...
Revising history
"I want it to be torn down, it needs to be,” Amy Levine says of the Eldorado Corner Market, where she works. “The gas pumps don’t work right; sometimes they give too much, which cuts into profits, and the place is just dilapidated. It needs to be torn down...
Troubled Waters
On April 23, Charles Edward Waters, a homeless man best known around Boulder for playing his guitar on the Pearl Street Mall for tips, was, for all intents and purposes, sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison...
3 killed as small plane crashes into home, day care center
EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. — A twin engine Cessna 310 crashed shortly after takeoff Wednesday morning in East Palo Alto, hitting a home and a day care center...
Even if defeated, anti-GMO movement gains ground
California's Proposition 37, which would require food producers to label foods that contain genetically modified organisms, may not pass today. Support for the measure has dropped in the face of a massive advertising campaign from Monsanto and other massive ...
Will business in Colorado turn into Survivor?
A proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution could turn the state into one giant episode of Survivor, allowing locals to vote out any for-profit business they don't like...
Industrial gravel mining in Boulder County clears hurdle
Twenty years ago, Boulder County granted a special use permit that allowed a company to mine gravel on about 650 acres between Lyons and...
Court program seeks to reduce active warrants in one fell swoop
The legislative season at the State House is in full swing and buried amid controversial bills that would repeal the death penalty, further regulate...
White rhino poaching hits record levels in 2013
The BBC is reporting that 2013 was the worst year on record for the poaching of white rhinos in South Africa, a species that dwindled to a population of only 100 at the end of the 19th century...
Weekly Editor Joel Dyer to moderate panel on GMOs
Alfalfa's Market in Boulder will host a panel discussion on genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, featuring four local experts on farming and crops...
