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The deeply divided Douglas County Board of Education last week actually voted unanimously on a controversial issue: vouchers.
The board, on a 7-0 vote, killed...
The parties involved in Douglas County School District’s private school voucher lawsuit have been waiting since last December to hear whether the U.S. Supreme...
Lawyers say Colorado’s judicial branch has unlawfully removed a well-respected judge from presiding over the appeal of an Aurora man’s death sentence.
After years on the...
The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered a judge to explain why he's keeping certain records in the Planned Parenthood shooting case secret. The High Court gave El Paso District...
Anti-fracking activists gathered outside the judicial center to demand that the court allow cities to pass fracking bans and moratoriums without state interference --...
Last Thursday, East High School junior McCoy Cantwell asked state Supreme Court justices and attorneys whether Superman was an identity thief.
In a 1966 comic,...
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Libertarians, light up. Sen. Rand Paul will be fundraising with marijuana tycoons today at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver. This is the first...
Gov. John Hickenlooper today named Judge Richard Gabriel of the Colorado Court of Appeals as the newest member of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Gabriel, 53,...