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Sentencing-reform bill clears first hurdle

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DENVER—The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony and voted unanimously to support HB 1352, sponsored by Rep. Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs, Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, and Senator Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield. The legislation is based on recommendations ...

Buff Briefs | Week of March 11

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boulderweekly.com/briefs IBS building topped off...

Amazon raises royalty rate for Kindle e-books

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SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc...

2 deputies shot in Washington state; suspect killed

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EATONVILLE, Wash. — The man who shot two Pierce County, Wash...

Two city employees arrested

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Boulder police announced this afternoon that they have arrested two City of Boulder employees in connection with a peeping tom incident alleged to have occurred on Oct. 5 in the 1000 block of 11th Street...

Newborn, 3 children among 7 dead in Chicago-area fire

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CHICAGO — A Sunday morning fire tore through a Chicago-area apartment house, killing at least seven people, including a newborn and three other children...

Black future: Why American oil isn’t entering a new Golden Age

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The future of oil drilling is shifting quickly from the Middle East to North America. Right? Right...

Google unveils a ‘more beautiful’ Google Plus

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Google has taken the wrapper off of its redesign of Google , which...

Ebola anxiety

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Perhaps more widespread than the outbreak of the Ebola virus is the outbreak of Ebola virus paranoia. With more than a thousand people dead, evacuations of infected foreigners to the U.S. and Europe, and an escalating number of new infections in west Africa, it’s ...

Bomb suspect was student at Houston Islamic institute

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DETROIT — The man charged with the Christmas bombing attempt of an airliner headed for Detroit took classes at an Islamic institute in Houston, an institute leader said Wednesday...

Dying in our streets

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The job of journalists is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In November 1995, it would have been hard to find anyone in Boulder more afflicted and uncomfortable than Anita Belletti. When Boulder Weekly interviewed Belletti, she was undergoing ...

Obama signs extension of jobless benefits

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama...