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Colo. Mall Bomb Suspect Caught; No Word on Motive

BOULDER, Colo. -- A man suspected of leaving a homemade bomb at a Colorado shopping mall was captured without a fight outside a grocery store some 30 miles away Tuesday following a nationwide alert in which the FBI warned he should be considered armed and dangerous. Federal and local officials allege 65-year-old Earl...

Crews Clean Up Train Tanker Leaking Acid in Colo.

MONUMENT, Colo. -- A hydrochloric acid spill forced hundreds of residents of a town just north of the U.S. Air Force Academy to spend a day away from home while crews transferred the dangerous chemical from a leaking train tanker to a safe container. Evacuations were ordered for 255 homes in Monument, a town of 6,800 near...

Toxic Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Democratic Report Says

WASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday. The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either...

Mom on Facebook Sentenced in Son's Drowning Death

GREELEY, Colo. -- A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or that she killed her son on...

Police Pepper Spray 8-Year-Old in Colorado Elementary School

Aidan Elliott admits that he was out of control. When police entered his second-grade classroom, Aidan, an 8-year-old Colorado boy, was in the midst of a violent tantrum, wielding a sharp piece of molding he had ripped off the wall and used to threaten his teachers' lives. His mother, however, says there's no excuse for...

Background on colorado

Colorado ( or ) is the US state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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