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Barry Bonds avoids jail, gets 2 years’ probation, home confinement

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SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run...

More accounts of inmate abuse surface at jail

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A Boulder Weekly story about the Boulder County Jail and the use of a restraint chair on unruly inmates has prompted other current and former inmates to come forward with allegations of abuse suffered at the hands of jail staff...

GameStop Adds Android Tablets to 1,600 Stores

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GameStop is expanding its Android tablet lineup, adding the tablets to more than 1,600 stores nationwide...

Unzipped

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For years, Seth Brigham was one of Boulder’s gadflies, coloring Boulder’s city council meetings with provocative, uncomfortable pronouncements and, dare we say, unconventional ways of presenting information to elected officials, which included stripping down to ...

Heady Internet freedom in China as Great Firewall falls, briefly

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BEIJING — Web users reported an outage of China's...

Boulder shows solidarity with Dakota Access pipeline protesters

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On Tuesday Sept. 13 and 14, more than 200 separate protests were held across the country against the Dakota Access pipeline. The protests, three of...

Gulf oil spill threatens Louisiana coast

NEW ORLEANS — The slick of oil in the Gulf — a blob now three times the size of Rhode Island — was moving toward the west Monday, threatening the Louisiana coast, according to the latest forecast...

Idaho firefighters rescue boy whose tongue was stuck to metal pole

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BOISE, Idaho — Memo to children — and adults for that matter...

Bad seed

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It´s never easy being a Boulder County commissioner. In the best of times it’s a cross between housekeeping and playing referee. And then there are times like we’re having now when an emotional issue — in this case the expanded use of genetically modified crops ...

How FarmVille’s makers missed the boat on the next great era...

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Before there were virtual farmers in FarmVille and virtual shop owners in CityVille, there was Ultima Online...

Times Square bomb plotter predicts defeat of U.S. as he is...

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NEW YORK — Expressing no remorse and predicting the "imminent" defeat of the United States at the hands of Muslim forces, Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for his attempt to spill blood with a homemade car bomb...