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Red alert: Color-coded threat scale is tossed

WASHINGTON — The much-lampooned color-coded Department of Homeland Security threat alerts are being replaced with a simpler, two-level system that warns of specific dangers for a defined period of time...

Frackwater blues

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It seems as if the perfect storm is building...

Taking aim

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Is a bow and arrow a firearm? Yes, according to the Boulder County Commissioners, but only on Sugarloaf Mountain...

‘A Setup for Disaster’ 

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<script type="text/javascript" src="https://pixel.propublica.org/pixel.js" async="true"></script> The California Legislature recently passed a bill that would provide the state’s taxpayers some of the strongest protections in the nation...

FBI: Alleged investment scam could top $1 billion

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MIAMI — The investment scam by Fort Lauderdale attorney...

Drumbeat of war grows louder

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Editor’s Note: When regular Boulder Weekly freelancer Haley Gray — who speaks fluent Arabic — told us she was going to be spending a few months in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, we made arrangements for her to write a few stories on subjects that we felt our readers ...

One dead, two injured in Utah oil well explosion

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An explosion at a well site in eastern Utah has killed one worker and injured two others...

Disabled mother battles to keep her son

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CHICAGO — Kaney O'Neill knows she has limits as a mother...

The art of resilience

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A few years ago, photographer Peggy Dyer had what she says in “yoga terms” — Dyer herself is a yogi — one might call “a spiritual awakening...

‘BW’ wins 34 awards from Society of Professional Journalists

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In this year’s multi-state Top of the Rockies contest put on by the Society of Professional Journalists, Boulder Weekly won 13 first place awards...

Out of the shadows

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Gwen Goodwin was just shy of 53 when she decided it was time to come out of the closet — born in a man’s body, she says she could no longer live “the half and half life...

Five CU grads deliver on an ‘unreasonable’ idea incubator

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A group of CU grads has launched an unusual — some would say unreasonable — incubator to help brilliant entrepreneurs get their social and environmental ideas funded and off the ground.The Unreasonable Institute will host an opening reception on Monday evening to ...