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Kevin Simpson
Kevin Simpson was a reporter at The Denver Post until 2018. He covered a wide variety of topics at The Denver Post while working as a sports writer, metro columnist and general assignment reporter with a focus on long-form pieces. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he arrived in Colorado in 1979 and spent five years covering sports at the Rocky Mountain News before moving to The Post. He shifted from sports to city desk in 1987 and spent seven years writing his metro column before focusing on long-form stories that have spanned subjects as diverse as storm chasers, bull riding and conflict in the Middle East.
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Science and the internet point adoptee to his biological family in Colorado
A 48-year-old St. Louis man given up for adoption searched decades before DNA science and the internet led him to his biological parents and two sisters in Colorado.

CU researchers find key to some symptoms of severe West Nile infection
Researchers at the University of Colorado have discovered how severe forms of West Nile virus cause symptoms like memory loss and mood disorders.

After Orlando, Denver’s PrideFest brings reflection on challenges that remain
After last year's Denver PrideFest was buoyed by marriage equality, this year's event brings reflection after violence that killed 49 in Orlando.

Orlando authorities could take mental health cues from Aurora tragedy
The mental health response to the Aurora theater shootings explored therapeutic avenues that could have application to the Orlando nightclub tragedy.

How an inmate’s second chance was yanked away after sentencing error
A Colorado inmate mistakenly released 90 years early from prison went on to build a new, law-abiding life with a wife and children — until authorities realized their mistake and...

Rare disorder leaves patients constantly sleepy
Although much of sleep medicine deals with getting enough, a rare disorder called idiopathic hypersomnia disrupts lives with constant sleepiness.

Rate hikes proposed for 2017 individual Colorado health care plans
Colorado individual health care plan premiums could increase significantly in 2017 according to preliminary requests released Monday.

Assistance dog Secret stays in Colorado pending case resolution
An assistance dog named Secret, a 2-year-old Labrador retriever at the heart of an ownership dispute, will remain with a foster family in Colorado pending resolution of the lawsuit that...

E. coli outbreak sickens four in Colorado, 38 across country
An outbreak of E. Coli likely related to flour has sickened four people in Colorado and 38 across the country, according to federal authorities.

Former Swedish Medical Center employee Rocky Allen tests positive for HIV
Rocky Allen, the former Swedish Medical Center of Colorado employee facing federal drug charges for taking fentanyl from the hospital, carries HIV.