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Indictment with 8 new counts is handed up in Blagojevich case
CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was re-indicted in his corruption case Thursday as prosecutors seek to keep an upcoming decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on "honest services" fraud from delaying Blagojevich's June trial...
Romney Faces Tough Crowd During Trip to Charter School
Mitt Romney made the first foray of his presidential campaign into an...
Celebrities throw support behind measure to legalize marijuana
LOS ANGELES — Proposition 19, the California initiative that would legalize marijuana, got a boost Thursday from several Hollywood celebrities who announced they were throwing their support behind the measure...
Military readies Iron Man suit for summer testing
Though the public consciousness likely thinks of futuristic cyborg battle armor as the sort of thing still relegated to sci-fi films, it's closer to reality than the average person might realize. DefenseTech.org, a military news site, is reporting that prototypes of ...
Watershed woes
Sheila Murphy wades into Fourmile Creek, her waist-high beige waders keeping her submerged legs dry. She rinses a plastic container out in the creek, then takes a sample. At the creek bed, she tests the water’s pH and temperature, baseline measures for the health of ...
Young undocumented immigrants face dead end after high school
"Monica,” who declines to give her real name, was born in Mexico...
U.S. Army holds GI over hit-and-run in Japan
NAHA, Japan — The U.S. military in Okinawa Prefecture has...
Bikes, sunflowers on tap at coal plant event Saturday
A group of local activists has organized a bike ride to...
Wikileaks strikes back, asks customers to close Bank of America accounts
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — WikiLeaks asked customers to close accounts with Bank of America after the Charlotte, N.C., bank said it wouldn't process payments intended for the organization...
Conservation groups claim public comments went missing during BLM process
It’s no secret the Trump Administration is prioritizing energy development on public lands. But across the West, these policies are conflicting with Obama-era habitat...
Task force recommendations and near misses
When Governor John Hickenlooper handpicked his task force to examine state and local regulations concerning oil and gas operations, his stated intent was to resolve those issues involving competing regulatory entities and multiple jurisdictions including state and ...
