
Colorado lawmakers advance gun control bills
A series of sweeping gun-control measures in Colorado is on track to hit the governor's desk by the end of the month, with Democratic committees in ...

Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot
Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how ...

Governors: Looming cuts threaten economic gains
Washington's protracted budget stalemate could seriously undermine the economy and stall gains made since the recession, exasperated governors said ...
Colorado execution possible after appeal rejected
A Colorado judge can schedule the state's first execution in 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from an inmate who ...

Colo. House Dems lead passage of gun control bills
Colorado's Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed a handful of gun control bills, signaling a political shift in the wake of recent mass ...

Colo. House passes gun-control measures
Limits on the size of ammunition magazines and universal background checks passed the Colorado House on Monday, during a second day of emotional ...

NRA chief: Gun controls won't pass Congress
The head of the National Rifle Association said Thursday he's confident that Congress won't approve an assault weapons ban or a limit on high-capacity ...

More states push retention of struggling readers
Flunked, retained, held back. Whatever you call it, increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of ...

Colo. theater reopens, months after mass shooting
One survivor had to pause on his way into the theater and pray. Another braced for flashbacks as he entered the auditorium where 12 people died and ...

Delay in plea by Holmes disturbs victims, families
A stunned silence settled over a courtroom Friday after the father of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings loudly cursed defendant James ...

Massacre-hardened Colorado a gun control test case
After the annual late-summer harvest on his farm in the eastern reaches of Colorado, Greg Brophy has a few friends over, breaks out the handguns and ...

Police kill gunman, find 3 more dead in Colo. home
SWAT officers who stormed a Colorado home where a gunman had holed up found a horrific scene — four dead bodies including that of the gunman.

4 dead after police standoff at a Colo. townhome
A gunman barricaded inside his Colorado home fired shots at police from a second-story window before he was killed as SWAT officers stormed the home ...

Colo. theater shooting kin reject movie invitation
Relatives of those killed at a Colorado movie theater rejected an invitation Wednesday to attend its planned reopening, calling it a "disgusting ...

Colorado gets members-only clubs for legal pot use
With reggae music pumping in the background and flashing disco-style lights, members of the recreational pot club lit up in celebration of the new ...
Members-only marijuana clubs open in Colorado
Recreational marijuana clubs opened Monday in Colorado, less than a month after the state governor signed into law a constitutional amendment allowing ...

Shooting renews argument over video-game violence
In the days since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a shell-shocked nation has looked for reasons. The list of culprits ...

Oil, gas drilling rile West's energy embrace
This used to be a land proud of its oil barons. Now the energy industry that has brought wealth and jobs across the interior West is prompting angry ...

Connecticut school shooting revives gun debate
A lone police cruiser outside Columbine High School was the only outward reaction Friday to an even deadlier attack at a Connecticut elementary school

Pot proponents hopeful, wary after Obama comments
Officials and pot advocates looking for any sign of whether the Obama administration will sue to block legal pot laws in Washington state and Colorado ...

APNewsBreak: Colo gov says time to talk gun laws
Colorado's Gov. John Hickenlooper said "the time is right" for state lawmakers to consider gun control measures, offering his firmest stance in the ...

Pot legalized in Colo. with gov's proclamation
Marijuana for recreational use became legal in Colorado Monday, when the governor took a purposely low-key procedural step of declaring the ...

Pot legalized in Colorado with gov's proclamation
Using marijuana for recreational use is now effectively legal in Colorado. Gov. John Hickenlooper declared a voter-approved marijuana legalization ...

5 states to increase class time in some schools
Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states announced ...