Tag: Montana
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How Northern Colorado turned its season around and became the Big Sky contender the numbers say the Bears are | College Basketball Insider
GREELEY — Process over product. That’s been the motto for Steve Smiley and his Northern Colorado team all season. It was that way when the Bears won 10 games in nonconference play for the first time in program history, including beating Colorado for the first time in nearly 100 years. It was that way when…
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Fort Collins man convicted of kidnapping and killing a Montana woman in 2021
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jury convicted Casey Childers, 41, of kidnapping and killing Rachel Holeman, 29, Thursday afternoon. Childers kidnapped Holeman in 2021 with the help of Shantel Edlund, 46, and Leo VanBuskirk, 23. Holeman is from Montana and the others are from Wyoming. The Fort Collins Police…
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
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Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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‘Deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced’: DEA seized record amount of fentanyl in Colorado last year
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A total of 522 people died from drug overdoses in Denver in 2023, the most since tracking began in 1923, according to Denver’s Office of the Medical Examiner. Around 40% of those deaths involved the use of fentanyl, according to the office. In an effort to battle the ongoing fentanyl war that has blazed since…
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‘It’s our Grand Slam’: The National Western Stock Show finally arrives in Denver
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Nick Cragen stood next to his daughter, Amelia, and their Miniature Hereford cow on Saturday morning, preparing to show the small cow off to a panel of judges. Amelia was born with Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), a neurological movement disorder that drops a person’s average lifespan to eight or nine years. Amelia is 12, and…
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After Colorado 14ers, daring ‘Rocky Mountain Grand Slam’ attempt falls short
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Last week, after days of treacherous trudging through unrelenting snow and loose rock in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, Jason Heyn finally turned around. He started walking down the road to the town of Red Lodge. He told himself he would accept a ride if one was offered. “Sure enough, about 6 miles outside of town, someone…
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Could a Montana-style climate change court ruling happen in Colorado?
Some experts say it’s unlikely, here’s why.
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3 states, 100-plus peaks, no car: One man’s big walk starting in Colorado
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One recent morning along 14,000-foot Culebra Peak in southern Colorado, a pair of hikers offered some assistance to another they met. They learned this young man named Jason had been backpacking around without a sleeping pad. “It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, you’ve been sleeping on the ground?’” recalled Mark Reis, who was taking unrelated…
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Two Denver area companies announce 100+ layoffs
A car-cover company and website design company with Denver area operations notified the Secretary of State this week more than 100 employees will be laid off. According to the WARN notices both companies filed, Wix.com Ltd. plans to sever 62 workers from its downtown Denver office. GT Covers, a division of Covercraft Industries LLC, will…
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Denver mayoral candidate Kelly Brough: ‘This isn’t a stepping stone for me’
Kelly Brough is no stranger to firsts. She’s been the “first” at least three times in her life, and there’s potential for a fourth. She’s one of 17 people, and five women, vying to be Denver’s 46th mayor. Each time she became the “first” — first on-call snowplow driver at Stapleton Airport, first female head of…