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This April 6, 2012, photo, provided by the U. S. Forest Service shows the Conundrum Creek Cabin, in the White River National Forest, near Aspen, Colo., where as many as six cows remain that froze to death. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Steve Segin said Tuesday they need to decide quickly how to get rid of the carcasses. The options: use explosives to break up the cows, burn down the cabin, or using a helicopters or trucks to haul out the carcasses. (AP Photo/U.S. Forest Service, Brian Porter)

Forest Service may have to use explosives to dislodge frozen cows in cabin

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 5:04pm

DENVER -- It may take explosives to dislodge a group of cows that wandered into an old ranger cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, then died and froze solid when they couldn't get out.

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Social media bringing transparency to ski snow reports

Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:24pm

Social media bringing transparency to snow reports

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In a Sunday, March 18, 2012 photo provided by the Yuma, Colo., Pioneer, a wildfire sends up a huge wall of smoke, forcing authorities to temporarily close a section of U.S. Highway 34 east of Yuma County, Colo., when the fire filled the skies with so much smoke that firefighters couldn't see the flames. Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley have been allowed to return home after firefighters contained most of the wildfire. (AP Photo/The Yuma Pioneer, Tony Rayl)

Colo. wildfire causes evacuation of Colo. town

Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 10:23am

DENVER -- Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley and surrounding areas have been allowed to return home after a wildfire on the state's northeastern plains that injured firefighters and filled the skies with thick smoke that hid the flames from response crews and closed a highway.

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Columbine High School Principal Frank DeAngelis at a candlelight vigil at the Columbine Memorial at Clement Park near Littleton, Colo., on Sunday, April 19, 2009. DeAngelis was the principal at the time of the attack. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider)

Columbine principal will change interview policy after Roy incident

Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 2:31pm

DENVER -- Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis says he will no longer do interviews for visitors about the 1999 mass shootings at his school unless they are cleared by security.

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Ex-sheriff charged with trading meth for sex; sits in jail named after him

Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 3:27pm

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- A well-respected former Colorado sheriff is being held on a half-million-dollar bond in the jail named for him, suspected of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance.

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5 foster kids, 1 adult dead in Colo. crash

Steven K. Paulson The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 3:11pm

DENVER -- Five children and a man who ran a group home were killed Thursday when their van collided with a tractor-trailer in eastern Colorado, authorities said.

All of the children in the van live at the home for adopted and foster children run by the man, said Kiowa County Sheriff's office spokesman Chris Sorensen. The relationships of the children who died to the man were not immediately known.

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