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FILE - Tourists sit quietly as they view Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah, in August 2000. A federal appeals court in Denver was to hear arguments Thursday Jan. 19, 2012 on the Obama administration's decision to cancel Bush-era oil and gas leases near national parks in Utah. (AP Photo/Provo Daily Herald, Brian Fitzgerald, File)

Appeals court weighs energy leases near Utah parks

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 2:07pm

DENVER -- A federal appeals court must decide if the Obama administration gave energy companies enough notice that it was scrapping Bush-era energy leases near national parks in Utah, the auction for which prompted an environmental activist to drive up prices with his bidding in an act of civil disobedience.

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Victims of Oklahoma State plane crash remembered

Last updated Friday, January 28, 2011 - 5:36pm

DENVER -- Representatives of Oklahoma State University joined sheriff's officials and firefighters on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of a plane crash that killed 10 people from the school's basketball program.

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