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Jefferson County administrator Jim Moore has been fired, weeks after the county paid out $766,000 related to age- and sex-discrimination cases involving him. The three commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday night to oust Moore, who assumed his position four years ago and was on track to earn about $150,000 this year. Full Story »
RTD could have at least $1 billion less than previously forecast to build its FasTracks rail expansion under a more conservative sales-tax revenue model created by a panel of economic experts. Full Story »
Rachael Rubens served "four years, one month and a day" in the U.S. Army as a finance officer at Fort Carson and in Iraq. Full Story »
New standards for subject matter as varied as reading and theater were unanimously adopted by the state school board Thursday. Full Story »
Sufganiyot -- jelly-filled doughnuts fried in oil -- may be delicious, but they're also dangerous when the helping hands in the kitchen belong to the under-10 set. Full Story »
Boulder-area contractors won't have to come up with as much as a combined $5 million in construction taxes that city auditors said they may owe on long-completed projects. Full Story »
Eleven days shy of his 23rd birthday, University of Colorado senior Transito Eduardo Torres was buried in northern California. Full Story »
Matthew McAllister flips off the lights when he leaves his dorm room. He refills his water bottle instead of buying plastic ones, and he rations himself one paper towel when he dries his hands. Full Story »
On Tuesday night at 6 p.m. it was pitch dark and 3 degrees at North Boulder Park, but somehow Tracy Emmanuel convinced her friend Megan Raymond to come out for an impromptu skate-ski clinic they read about on Facebook. Full Story »
The "heat wave" begins. Expect highs in the mid-30s today in Greeley and throughout Weld County. Skies stay sunny all day, and northwest winds stay under 30 mph. Overnight lows tonight fall to about zero, but that's warmer than previous nights. After a long stretch of Arctic air and periodic snowfall, we're now moving into a slightly different weather pattern. High pressure has setup shop across ... Full Story »
FRIDAY, DEC. 11 ZUMBA WITH AMY, 4-5 p.m. at Centennial Park Library, 2227 23rd Ave., Greeley. Exercise class sponsored by the High Plains Library District Wellness Program. Free. Details: (970) 506-8651. GINGERBREAD HOUSES, 6-7:30 p.m. at Farr Regional Library, 1939 61st Ave., Greeley. Instructor: Marilyn White of Marilyn's Cake Creations. Supplies provided. Registration required. Details: (970 ... Full Story »
Friday, Dec. 11 Pro Hockey Colorado Eagles at Amarillo Gorillas, 6 p.m. Boys Basketball Pawnee at Peetz, 7 p.m.; Holy Family at Eaton, 7 p.m.; Skyline at Roosevelt, 7 p.m.; University at Denver Lutheran, 7 p.m.; Weld Central at The Academy, 7 p.m.; Windsor at Silver Creek, 7 p.m.; Greeley Central, Platte Valley at NJC Tournament; Valley at White River Shootout, Meeker; Briggsdale at Prairie ... Full Story »
Practically every Saturday, Doyle Finke rises early, turns to his wife and asks, "Well, where do you want to go today?" Deb's trained him well. Deb's usually got a place in mind. All she needs is her camera. Finke, 54, of Greeley, will shoot hundreds of pictures of wildlife on those trips. On a typical weekend, when she's not hunting elk, coyotes or birds with her camera, she's probably snapping ... Full Story »
This is a slideshow of photos taken by Greeley resident Deb Finke, who is featured on the Adventure page of the Dec. 11 edition of the Tribune. Finke prefers to shoot wildlife, though she does shoot other subjects as well, and uses Olympus digital cameras with many different lenses. She also uses a tripod. She generally shoots early Saturday mornings in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Poudre ... Full Story »
Dozens of Colorado businesses are turning off their lights from noon to 1 p.m. Friday as part of an initiative to conserve energy. It's called Lights Out Lunch. Residents who pledge to turn off their lights too can get discounts from participating restaurants and a chance to win prizes. The initiative is by Xcel Energy, the Governor's Energy Office and the city and county of Denver. Full Story »
A California judge on Thursday tentatively invalidated a landmark pact to curtail the state's overuse of water and allow other Western states to claim their fair share. The 2003 agreement ended of years of bickering over how to divide the Colorado River between California and six western states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. More than 30 million acre-feet of water ... Full Story »
The longtime president of a union representing thousands of Colorado grocery workers is receiving his union vehicle as a retirement gift. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 President Ernie Duran Jr. lost a re-election bid this year and is be replaced on Jan. 1 by Kim Cordova, who raised questions during her campaign about Duran's spending. KUSA-TV in Denver reports that Duran will ... Full Story »
No one matched all five of the numbers drawn Thursday to win the Cash 5 jackpot worth $20,000, the Colorado Lottery said. The randomly selected numbers were 11, 15, 16, 23 and 27. Lottery officials said 34 tickets matched four of the numbers to win the $200 second prize, while 910 tickets matched three numbers to win $10 each. Another 8,370 tickets matched two numbers to win $1 apiece. Full Story »
Jefferson County is plowing toward a greener future with a new piece of snow removal equipment. Full Story »
Wintry weather was expected to persist over the Northeast and New England on Friday, while the Central U.S. could start to warm. Full Story »
A man who has been accused of videotaping women while he raped and groped them has been charged with 19 counts of sexual assault, but police don't think their case is complete. Full Story »
The Boulder County Sheriff's Office believes that the drama camp that kids and their parents had been paying registration fees to may be fraudulent. Full Story »
The ranking Republican on a committee deciding the fate of the White House nominee to be U.S. attorney in Colorado is following the case of former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis. Full Story »
A bandit, who allegedly pocketed sunglasses at the same ophthalmology shop multiple times over the past couple months, was arrested Thursday afternoon when he apparently came back for a third time. Full Story »
FORT COLLINS - Police on Thursday night arrested a 20-year-old man and say he is facing first-degree murder charges in the death of a woman at a townhome on Tuesday morning. Full Story »
BOULDER - Five years after the hazing death of University of Colorado student Gordie Bailey, the fraternity he once belonged to says it wants to return to University Hill. Full Story »
ARVADA - Police dogs roamed the hallways of a local high school during a random drug search this week. Full Story »
COLORADO SPRINGS - A fugitive was caught at a library because a security guard was doing training at just the right time. Full Story »
CRAIG (AP) - A former Craig police detective accused of misconduct has pleaded not guilty to three felonies. Full Story »
Police on Thursday night arrested a 20-year-old man and say he is facing first-degree murder charges in the death of a woman at a Fort Collins townhome on Tuesday morning. Full Story »
A massive appropriations bill approved Thursday by the U.S. House includes $49 million for the proposed bus rapid transit system in Fort Collins' Mason Corridor. Full Story »
The first major housing development on property formerly owned by the Holcim cement plant near LaPorte has cleared a significant hurdle. Full Story »
Woodward Governor Co. is again lighting up the night with its annual holiday display through Dec. 31. The company this year has updated its sound system so people riding through the grounds can tune to 91.7 FM on their radio to listen to holiday music. Full Story »
Early next year, proposed rules Powertech USA must play by to open and operate its proposed uranium mine northeast of Fort Collins will be formally ironed out. Full Story »
Police look for person seen sleeping in video A 32-year-old Lakewood man is behind bars for allegedly videotaping sex assaults on unsuspecting sleeping or possibly incapacitated women in 2006. Full Story »
He's a 9-year-old Broomfield boy whose had to deal with more pain than most adults do their whole lives. Full Story »
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has introduced a jobs-training package that he says will help Colorado workers get back to work. Full Story »
A 22-year-old University of Colorado student from Chappaqua, N.Y., has died after an accident at Wolf Creek Ski Area in southwest Colorado. Full Story »
OSLO (AP) — Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace." Full Story »
VAIL, Colorado - Snow Daze is kind of the unofficial kick-off to ski season in Vail, Colorado, and local businesses and hotels are welcoming it, although not necessarily reaping the benefits just yet. Hotels and lodges in town are all across the board in terms of weekend occupancy rates. The Tivoli Lodge is completely full for the weekend, while Hotel Gasthof Gramshammer has about four rooms ... Full Story »
VAIL, Colorado - Tiger Woods crashed again Thursday night. The winner of the Dummy Demolition Derby at Golden Peak was a Cadillac Escalade with a fake Tiger Woods at the wheel. A group of Arrabelle employees took home first place bragging rights - and $5,000 - for their golfer-inspired sled, complete with girlfriends in the windows. "We choose the Tiger Woods idea because it was a current ... Full Story »
VAIL - Vail's old guard turned out Thursday for a chance to swap stories with Bob Parker, the resort's first marketing director, and a man many people credit with bringing the resort to prominence. Parker, now 86, is in town at the invitation of the Vail Leadership Institute, which is holding a big event for Parker and other Vail pioneers Friday. But before the big shindig, the Colorado Ski ... Full Story »
FRISCO - If only pine beetles could feel windchill like the rest of us. Recent cold, windy weather may have been bitter for humans in Summit County, but the pine beetle larvae snuggled up in the bark of area lodgepole forests are doing just fine, according to U.S. Forest Service entomologist Bob Cain. "It would need to get even colder to have significant mortality," Cain said. The mountain pine ... Full Story »
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are considering changing a proposed expansion of Medicare to address complaints from doctors and hospitals and defray costs for consumers, officials said Thursday, two days after party leaders hailed it as part of a breakthrough for health care. Under the plan, uninsured individuals ages 55 to 64 could purchase coverage under Medicare. The expansion is part of a ... Full Story »
ASPEN - Like a lot of local opera buffs, Alan Fletcher, the president of the Aspen Music Festival and School, has not seen "The Met: Live in HD," the series of broadcasts from New York's Metropolitan Opera. Like many classical music fans in Aspen, Fletcher has been holding his breath, waiting to see the acclaimed program that has been warmly received in theaters around the world. And like the ... Full Story »
BASALT - Basalt will get its own taxi service starting Dec. 17. Temple Glassier and Mike Drummond recently received a license from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to launch Basalt Cab Service. They are working closely with the Roaring Fork Originals, a consortium of Basalt-area restaurants, to provide people with a safe alternative to driving after a night on the town. Service will be ... Full Story »
CARBONDALE - The Roaring Fork Valley bus system's financial picture for 2009 will be a little more bleak than expected because of falling revenues and rising expenditures. The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority's sales tax revenues will drop about 18 to 19 percent compared to 2008, according to CEO Dan Blankenship. The staff had previously forecast a drop of 17 to 18 percent. Fare revenues ... Full Story »
GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Area real estate brokers are looking to the local governing boards to support them in an attempt to convince the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to raise the FHA conforming loan limits within Garfield County. The current limit for Garfield County on FHA loans is $425,000. But according to Sarah Thorsteinson, director of Glenwood Springs Association of Realtors ... Full Story »
BASALT - The Roaring Fork Conservancy has embarked on an ambitious $6 million fundraising campaign to build and operate a long-anticipated River Center in Basalt. The nonprofit organization was founded in the 1996 with the goals of educating people about the Roaring Fork watershed and inspiring them to protect it. After implementing numerous programs during the past decade to accomplish its ... Full Story »
Jackass Penguins take a walk at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Japan. AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye
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