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The suicide rate in Pitkin County is . Four residents took their lives in 11 days early this year. Two more suicides have occurred since then. The dead range from a well-known journalist to a veteran who had lost his legs in Iraq.
Xcel Energy is seeking a $157 million increase in electricity rates, but the company has been making so much money that state regulators and consumer advocates say .
Authorities searching the Jeep of a man accused of shoving his wife to her death discovered a map that had an X marking the cliff near where she fell, .
A group of teenagers were drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in a Clifton home Sunday afternoon when one pulled out a .22 caliber snub-nosed revolver and accidentally shot a 15-year-old boy in the chest, killing him, .
A gunman opened fire early Thursday at a Florida State University library, wounding three and sending hundreds of students who had been up all night studying for exams scrambling for cover in the book aisles and barricading themselves in with desks. .
An Otero County judge on Wednesday reduced the bail for a Rocky Ford police officer accused in the shooting death of a 27-year-old man last month. Several hours later James Ashby, 41, who was being held on $150,000 bail, .
President Barack Obama will announce his intention Thursday to use his executive powers to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, the system in nearly three decades.
Police on Wednesday identified the 20-year-old suspect arrested in Friday night’s shooting of an officer during a traffic stop and said .
No survivors were found Wednesday in the wreckage of a small plane .
State airport officials vow to save a much-needed grant program for local airfields even though they nearly gutted the fund because of their missteps. .
Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul
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