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FILE - A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)
Colorado funeral home owners who let nearly 190 bodies decay plead guilty to corpse abuse
Colorado funeral home owners accused of letting nearly 190 bodies decay in a room-temperature building and giving grieving families fake ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse. Jon and Carie Hallford entered the pleas on Friday.
 
FILE - A sign is displayed outside an apartment building in Skokie, Ill., April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Class action lawsuit on AI-related discrimination reaches final settlement
A federal judge has signed off on a settlement agreement Wednesday in a class action lawsuit alleging that an algorithm designed to score rental applicants discriminated on the basis of race and income.
 
FILE - Rev. Paula Stecker of the Christ the King Lutheran Church stands in front of a memorial set up outside Club Q following a mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)
Survivors of LGBTQ+ club shooting say the deaths and trauma could’ve been avoided in lawsuits
Victims and family of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs in 2022 spoke Tuesday after filing lawsuits against the El Paso County commissioners and former sheriff.
 
FILE - Rev. Paula Stecker of the Christ the King Lutheran Church stands in front of a memorial set up outside Club Q following a mass shooting at the gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)
Victims of 2022 mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ club sue county for not enforcing red flag laws
Victims and family of those killed in the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs in 2022 filed lawsuits Sunday against the El Paso County commissioners and former sheriff.
 
FILE - Colorado Rep. Gabe Evans talks to well-wishers before the first Republican primary debate for the state's 8th Congressional district seat, Jan. 25, 2024, in Fort Lupton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Republican Gabe Evans ousts Democratic US Rep. Yadira Caraveo in Colorado
Republican Gabe Evans has defeated Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in one of the nation’s most-watched races. Evans flipped the Colorado House seat north of Denver to Republican control.
 
FILE - Stickers for voters sit in a roll on top of a ballot box at a voting drop-off location, Oct. 25, 2024, in Washington Park in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Denver district attorney is investigating the leak of voting passwords in Colorado
The Denver district attorney’s office has opened an investigation into the leak of voting system passwords that were posted to a Colorado state website in June before being taken down last month.
 
FILE - A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)
Plea hearing postponed for Colorado funeral home owners accused of letting 190 bodies decay
Colorado funeral home owners accused of stashing 190 decaying bodies and giving grieving families fake ashes were expected to plead guilty Friday, but the hearing was postponed because of a snowstorm.
 
FILE - Candidates for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, Jeff Hurd and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., shake hands as Hurd's daughter, Gabriella Hurd, looks on, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Towaoc, Colo. (AP Photo/Jerry McBride)
Republican Jeff Hurd wins Colorado US House seat in Lauren Boebert’s old district
Republican Jeff Hurd has won the U.S. House seat in Colorado that Rep. Lauren Boebert left. Hurd’s victory fulfills the congresswoman’s hope that her mid-election departure from the race would make it easier for a different Republican to retain the seat after she nearly lost it in 2022.
 
FILE - U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo., joins a protest by union members against the proposed merger of grocery store chains Kroger and Albertsons, Sept. 30, 2024, outside the City/County Building. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Colorado US House race between Rep. Caraveo and Evans too early to call
A Colorado congressional race in a newly formed district north of Denver is too early to call. The 8th Congressional District race is a test of Republicans’ and Democrats’ appeal to Latino voters, with Republican state Rep.
 
Lauren Boebert, Republican candidate for Colorado's 4th Congressional District, speaks to supporters at an election watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Windsor, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Republican US Rep. Lauren Boebert wins after switching districts in Colorado
Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has won in a House district in Colorado where she moved midway through the election cycle to avoid what would have been a tough reelection bid in her old district.
 
Shooting leaves 3 dead and 3 wounded at a Colorado house party on Halloween
Colorado police said a shooting at a house party on Halloween left three people dead and three others injured in Northglenn, north of Denver.
 
Stickers for voters sit in a roll on a ballot box at a voting drop-off location Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Washington Park in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado governor works to remedy leak of voting system passwords
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis says that the state is providing aircraft and vehicles to help with changing voting system passwords that were accidentally leaked on a state website.
 
Stickers for voters sit in a roll on a ballot box at a voting drop-off location Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Washington Park in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado accidentally put voting system passwords online, but officials say election is secure
The Colorado Secretary of State’s office says voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the department’s website.
 
Gabe Evans, Republican candidate for the U.S. House District 8 in Colorado, talks to Annette Hayes during a campaign stop Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Evans, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado congressional candidates in up-for-grabs district walk the line on border security
The U.S. House race in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District is one of the closest in the nation and a testing ground for Republicans’ and Democrats’ strategies to reach Latino voters.
 
FILE - A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)
Colorado funeral home owners accused of stashing dead bodies plead guilty to federal fraud charges
Colorado funeral home owners accused of cheating customers and misspending nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds have pleaded guilty to federal charges for defrauding clients.
 
In this image made from video provided by the Teller County Sheriff’s Office, emergency responders work at the site of a mining accident in Cripple Creek, Colo, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (Teller County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
Elevator door was ‘broken’ during Colorado mine tour accident that killed 1 and trapped 12
Investigators were trying to figure out Friday what led to an elevator accident at a former Colorado gold mine that killed a tour guide. The Teller County sheriff says the elevator door was broken.
 
An aerial view shows Hillside Villa, bottom center, an apartment complex where Marina Maalouf is a longtime tenant, in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
While Americans continue to struggle under high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units could disappear in the next five years.
 
Marina Maalouf, a longtime resident of Hillside Villa who participated in protests after rents doubled in 2019, stands for a photo outside her apartment building in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Takeaways from AP’s report on affordable housing disappearing across the U.S.
While Americans continue to struggle under high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units could disappear in the next five years alone.
 
A sign off Highway 285 points motorists to Pleasant Park Road where a teenager, who was scouting for a location for lakeside homecoming photos, was shot in the face earlier this week by a town councilman, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, near Conifer, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado teen hoping for lakeside homecoming photos shot in face by town councilman, police say
A Colorado sheriff’s office said a town councilman shot a teenager in the face Tuesday and then said “my gun went off!” The 17-year-old was hospitalized after the shooting, and a bullet fragment was believed to be in his head.
 
Law enforcement officials at the scene of a shooting in an apartment complex early Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Broomfield, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Woman held hostage dies and the suspect is arrested after an hourslong standoff near Denver
Police say a woman has been fatally shot and a man has been arrested in a shooting at an apartment building in the Denver suburb of Broomfield.
 
FILE - Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party Dave Williams speaks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Colorado GOP chair ousted in a contentious vote that he dismisses as a ‘sham’
The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party has been ousted in a vote that he says is illegitimate. Dave Williams has attacked fellow Republicans whom he viewed as not being ultraconservative, prompting infighting in the party.
 
Flames consume trees as the Alexander Mountain Fire burns near Sylvan Dale Ranch late Tuesday, July 30, 2024, west of Loveland, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)
Colorado wildfire that destroyed 27 homes was human-caused, officials say
The U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Colorado wildfire that tore through 15 square miles and destroyed 48 buildings was human-caused.
 
FILE - This photo shows the Utah State Capitol, March 14, 2013, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Utah bans 13 books at schools, including popular “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series, under new law
Thirteen popular books have been banned from all public schools in Utah in the first wave of bans expected under a new law that prohibits books when at least three of the state’s 41 school district boards claim they contain pornographic or indecent material.
 
FILE - A hearse and debris sit behind the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)
Families whose loved ones were left decaying in Colorado funeral home owed $950M, payout unlikely
A judge ruled that the Colorado funeral home who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent must pay $950 million to the victims’ families.
 
A helicopter looks to make a drop of water as the Quarry wildfire burns in the foothills near the Ken Caryl Ranch development Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, southwest of Litteton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Wildfires in Colorado burn dozens of homes and structures, threaten hundreds more
A wildfire in Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range region has burned about two dozen homes and outbuildings. Authorities said Thursday that another wildfire on the edge of metro Denver had crept within a quarter-mile of evacuated homes.
 
Flames rise amid the billowing smoke from a wildland fire burning along the ridges near the Ken Caryl Ranch development Wednesday, July 31, 2024, southwest of Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West
A person has been killed in a wildfire burning in the Colorado foothills as numerous blazes torch large areas around the western United States. The blaze is one of several burning along the state’s heavily-populated Front Range.
 
A helicopter collects water to drop on the Alexander Mountain Fire burning Monday, July 29, 2024, west of Loveland, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)
Wildfire doubles in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as evacuations continue
The U.S. Forest Service says a wildfire near a Colorado city has grown to over 1,800 acres as more homes were placed under mandatory evacuation orders. A looming column of smoke could be seen for miles around on Tuesday morning.
 
FIL - Former NFL player and NFL Network's Terrell Davis is interviewed during a media availability on set at the NFL Network studios, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Culver City, Calif. Davis posted an email from United Airlines Tuesday, July 30, 2024, saying he was banned from flying the airline until a review of an incident earlier this month was complete, but United officials said that ban was sent and then rescinded weeks ago. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)
Terrell Davis says United banned him after flight incident. Airline says it was already rescinded
Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis posted an email from United Airlines Tuesday saying he was temporarily banned from flying the airline after an incident earlier this month.
 
FILE - Former NFL player Terrell Davis delivers his speech during induction ceremonies at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in Canton, Ohio. Davis said Monday, July 15, 2024, he was “humiliated" after being handcuffed and removed from a United Airlines flight, then later apologized to by law enforcement, over the weekend. Davis, who previously played for the Denver Broncos, wrote in an Instagram post that he had tapped a flight attendant on the arm, prompting the employee to shout “don't hit me” and hurry toward the front of the plane. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)
NFL Hall of Famer says he was unjustly handcuffed and ‘humiliated’ on a flight
Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis says he was “humiliated” after being unjustly handcuffed and removed from a United Airlines flight over the weekend.
 
FILE - U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks to reporters during a primary election watch party, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Windsor, Colo. Boebert will likely replace Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., after she won the Republican primary election in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District on Tuesday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Boebert will likely fill the House seat vacated by congressman who criticized the GOP’s extremes
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ken Buck resigned from Congress frustrated by a flank of the GOP’s unwavering devotion to former President Donald Trump. Now he will likely be replaced by one of their most boisterous leaders, Rep. Lauren Boebert.
 
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