[Gets out of bed, stretches, looks at the alarm clock] [there’s no alarm clock] [checks phone] Holy dooley it’s late! I can’t tell you what happened to my alarm clock this morning, partners. Welp, glad you’re here reading our Roundup. It’s been something of a rough morning in the Murphy household… oh who am I kidding. I’m just happy to be here, with you (virtually), and this Roundup.
One programming note: We’ve got an internal competition here to see who can come up with the best excuse for an abbreviated Roundup (such as today’s), and I swear to the holy lord of alarm clocks that it was an actual dingo that ate my actual alarm clock this morning.
Dingo be damned, it’s time for the Roundup.
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The Rundown
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Quick Hits
+ , a move that comes after 36 people were killed in a warehouse in Oakland, Calif.
+ This week, a Colorado Springs discount store was robbed and its two employees tied up with duct tape, and . A side note to would-be thieves and robbers: When it’s snowy out, your feet leave visible footprints, which can be used to catch you.
+ How cold was it yesterday? .
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+ A bill headed to President Obama’s desk should pave way for .
+ Reporter Aldo Svaldi synthesizes a state report that answers the question: ?
+ A Niwot High School football coach accused of choking a student and then kneeing him in the groin .
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+ following accusations of Russian interference.
+ in a post-election appearance on Capitol Hill.
+ Heroin overdoses killed more people in the U.S. in 2015 than gun-related homicides, and drug overdoses , the most ever. Related: : It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago.
+ South Korea .
+ , including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
+ Here’s our collection of .
+ Ho ho ho, the Denver Art Museum got a $25 million gift, .
+ , now ten years old.
+ A 19-year-old woman in a 2015 .
+ Race organizers for the Hardrock 100 have approved changes to the lottery system used to choose the 145 entrants of .
+ R.I.P., . See also: .
+ A Colorado sheriff’s deputy found .
+ See the latest in our series.
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+ Healthiest state? Colorado .
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Trump Digest
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What We’re Reading
+ An investigation into .
+ If you were around a computer in the 1980s, you may remember the game Lode Runner, .
+ Prince’s closest friends .
Song of the Day
This week I learned that one of the many annoying Rod Stewart songs out there in the world isn’t Rod Stewart’s own. .
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Hat Tips and Corrections
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