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"One of the cops fell off his motorcycle, which created this moment of chaos. I don’t know if they worried they’d be vulnerable, but they just started attacking people."
Denver public schools Wednesday afternoon lost $20 million a year that would have funneled directly into classrooms.
The windfall would have come without lawmakers passing...
Florida Republican House Speaker Steve Crisafulli took a page from former Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty on Tuesday. Crisafulli knew members of his Republican...
The battle in Lafayette between a mom-and-pop music store and fast-expanding Flatirons megachurch may finally get legal. It was always moving this way.
Flatirons Community...
The American Psychological Association secretly worked behind the scenes with the Bush Administration to craft moral and legal justifications for torture, states a renegade...
By Monday, the Baltimore protests against the killing of Freddie Gray had seized the imagination of the country. And Hillary Clinton came out in support of gay...