As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section — SunLit — we’re featuring staff picks from book stores across the state. >> Click here for more SunLit This week’s bookstore: BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver bookbardenver.com | @BookBarDenver on Twitter, Instagram My Heart is a Chainsaw By Stephen Graham JonesGallery/Saga Press$28.00 Published Aug. 31, 2021 […]
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Table Mesa King Soopers will reopen in January after mass shooting
King Soopers will reopen its Table Mesa grocery store in Boulder on Jan. 20, nearly a year after a gunman killed 10 people there. “We’ve always known that Boulder was a special place, but you’ve proven through your empathy, your strength, help and support that Boulder is so much more than a place,” Joe Kelley, […]
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Five people wounded in Aurora shooting near party
Five people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday near a house party in Aurora. Police say there were called just after midnight to the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and North Dayton Street where officers found two people who had been shot. Three others showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds. “Responding […]
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What Colorado book sellers have on their night stands
As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section — SunLit — we’re featuring staff picks from book stores across the state. >> Click here for more SunLit This week’s bookstore: Out West Books, 533 Main St., Grand Junction outwestbooks.co | @outwestbooks on Twitter, Instagram Fox and I By Catherine RavenSpiegel & Grau$28.00 Published July 8, […]
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Wolf Creek Ski Area plans to kick off Colorado’s ski season on Saturday; A-Basin opens Sunday
Wolf Creek Ski area in southwest Colorado is planning to kick of the state’s 2021-22 ski season this weekend. The resort said it will be open Saturday and Sunday. The beginner Nova Lift and the Lynx Lift will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Wolf Creek will then reopen weekends until Mother Nature […]
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CSU Pueblo student who authorities say made threats is arrested after discovery of guns, ammunition
A Colorado State University Pueblo student who authorities say made threats towards staff and fellow students at the school was arrested on Tuesday after “a large cache of loaded weapons” and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition were allegedly found in his possession on campus. Robert James Killis, 24, is suspected of unlawful carrying/possessing a weapon […]
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Four teens die in SUV crash on Colorado’s Eastern Plains
Four teenagers died Wednesday night when the SUV they were riding in on Colorado’s Eastern Plains was struck by a tractor trailer. The youngest victim was 15 years old and the oldest was 16. The crash happened in Prowers County at the intersection of U.S. 287 and Prowers County Road 196 near the town of […]
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Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park will be closed for two days after “incident” on ride leaves 6-year-old dead
The Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs will be closed on Monday and Tuesday after an “incident” on a ride Sunday evening left a 6-year-old Colorado Springs girl dead. The park said in a news release that an investigation into what happened is ongoing. “We are deeply saddened and ask that you please keep […]
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Vail Resorts names its first female CEO as longtime chief steps back
Kirsten Lynch, Vail Resorts’ chief marketing officer for a decade, will become the company’s CEO on Nov. 1. The first woman to lead the resort giant, she will take over from Rob Katz, who will become executive chairman of the board, the Broomfield-based company said Tuesday. Lynch also will be on the board. Katz on […]
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Coloradan pleads guilty to federal offense in deadly Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol
A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to a federal offense in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Glenn Wes Lee Croy, of Colorado Springs, admitted to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building late last month, according to federal court records. Croy is set to be sentenced Oct. 15. He faces […]