Faith-based organizations like Guns to Gardens and RAWtools are using gun buybacks to turn unwanted firearms into garden tools
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Colorado tackles eating disorders by limiting diet pill sales to kids, use of BMI in determining treatment
Colorado and several other states tackling the issue are responding to the nearly 30 million Americans — roughly the population of Texas — who will struggle with an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia, in their lifetime
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As water levels drop in San Luis Valley, the risk of arsenic rises
The carcinogen occurs naturally in soil and has been appearing in rising levels in drinking water in the valley. Now a new study is examining private wells in the area.
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Medicaid work requirements could make 46,000 Coloradans lose coverage
Tens of thousands of people in the state could lose Medicaid coverage as a result of work requirements, which are a major sticking point in federal debt ceiling negotiations
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Colorado kids, teens who visit emergency rooms in mental health crisis can now get free therapy
The Follow-Up Project, which has suicide hotline staff call people who’ve been discharged from a hospital, is now offering free therapy through the nonprofit Second Wind Fund
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Residents who sued claiming squalid conditions ask judge to let them represent everyone in their apartment complex
Four Mint Urban Infinity residents want class-action status for their lawsuit so people living in any of the 550 apartments can be compensated for problems that went on for years
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A program in Gunnison is providing fresh, local food to teachers — for free
Easing one source of stress for preschool educators could make teachers better in the classroom, managers of the collaborative food program say
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After decades of closures, a new 40-bed psych unit in Aurora may represent a U-turn in mental health care
The state-of-the-art unit will open this summer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, alleviating crowded emergency rooms filled with people in mental health crisis
Posted inCrime and Courts
Texas woman fatally shot by her boyfriend after traveling to Colorado to get abortion, police say
Gabriella Gonzalez was shot in the head in a Dallas parking lot after returning the night before from Colorado
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Grand Junction school board rejects on-campus health center, citing concerns over parental rights and a lawsuit
Mesa County Valley School District board votes against the health center at the new Grand Junction High School campus