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101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colo., Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump’s DEI purge
James H. Harvey III is 101 years old and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The Black U.S. Air Force pilots and crew based at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama fought in North Africa and Europe in World War II.
 
An American Airlines jetliner that caught fire after landing Thursday at Denver International Airport sits near a hangar at the airport Friday, March 14, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Aircraft catches fire after landing in Denver, sending passengers onto wing as smoke engulfs plane
A fire on an American Airlines plane after it diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport sent fleeing passengers to a wing amid billowing smoke. Airport officials say 12 people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.
 
Sami and Mike Matson of Superior, Colo., renew their wedding vows for the third time during the 35th annual Marry Me & Ski for Free Valentine's Day mountaintop matrimony ceremony Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, at Loveland Ski Area, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Dozens of couples get hitched at snowy Colorado ski resort on Valentine’s Day
There is nothing like dozens of couples saying “I do” simultaneously to warm the frigid air that grips the Colorado Rockies in the heart of winter.
 
Law officials escort a suspect from an apartment to a waiting utility vehicle for transport during a raid Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
US border czar blames leaks for hindering immigration raids in Colorado suburb spotlighted by Trump
Donald Trump’s border czar is blaming news leaks for hindering a large-scale immigration operation in Colorado.
 
Flight attendant Gustavo Oliveira, center, juggles bubbles to entertain passengers during the United Airlines annual "fantasy flight" to a fictional North Pole at Denver International Airport, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Flight takes kids to visit Santa at North Pole scene in transformed Denver airport hangar
More than 100 kids have been treated to an airplane flight and visit to a hangar at Denver International Airport that was transformed into the North Pole.
 
A male tarantula looks for a mate on the plains near La Junta, Colo., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.(AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Spider lovers scurry to Colorado town in search of mating tarantulas and community
It’s tarantula mating season on the Colorado plains, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate. Hundreds of arachnophiles flock to the small town of La Junta each year to watch them emerge in droves.
 
Nick Michael with CJK Milling stands on top of discarded piles of ore in Leadville, Colo. on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Colorado mining town’s polluted legacy has a potential for profit, but some are wary of the risk
Piles of mine waste that loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville are a reminder of the city’s boom days. Now a company wants to “remine” some of the waste piles to squeeze more gold out of them.
 
Simon Rubick, who sought help from PAWsitive Recovery while he was recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, holds his rescue dog Tonks in Aurora, Colo., on Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Giving up pets to seek rehab can worsen trauma. A Colorado group intends to end that
People seeking treatment for substance abuse don’t have to give up their pets thanks to the work of volunteers in a Colorado-based organization.
 
A home burns during the Corral Fire at Bernard and Stearman roads, west of Tracy, Calif., Saturday, June 1, 2024. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, says gusty winds were fueling the Corral Fire that began Saturday afternoon and continued early Sunday morning near the city of Tracy, 60 miles east of San Francisco. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)
California firefighters continue battling wind-driven wildfire east of San Francisco
California firefighters gained significant ground Sunday on a wind-driven wildfire that has scorched thousands of acres 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Francisco.
 
David Hobbs, an employee at Art Castings of Colorado, touches up a wax mold of Jackie Robinson's head in Loveland, Colo. on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. The original statue was cut off at the ankles and stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas in January. The Colorado foundry cast that sculpture in 2019 and, luckily, still had the original plaster and rubber molds. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Jackie Robinson is rebuilt in bronze in Colorado after theft of statue from Kansas park
Metalsmiths in Colorado are remaking Jackie Robinson in bronze after the theft of a beloved Kansas statue of the civil rights baseball icon set off a national outpouring of donations.
 
Shopping carts topped with heavy snow sit marooned in the lot of a grocery store as a late winter storm dropped up to a foot of snow Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Golden, Colo. Forecasters predict that the storm will persist until early Friday, snarling traffic along Colorado's Front Range communities. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado snowstorm closes highways and schools for a second day
Thousands in Colorado were without power as authorities closed highways and schools during a winter storm that pummeled the Denver area and threatened to drop another half foot there.
 
An electric Nissan Leaf gets a charge at a station as a late winter storm dropped up to a foot of snow Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Golden, Colo. Forecasters predict that the storm will persist until early Friday, snarling traffic along Colorado's Front Range communities. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Storm dumps over 4 feet of snow in Colorado, leaving thousands without power
A major storm dumped over 4 feet (1 meter) of snow in northern Colorado before ending Friday, leaving thousands without power. The National Weather Service says between 10 and 20 inches fell in the Denver area and the foothills got 2 to 4 feet.
 
A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 2, 2024. Skijoring draws its name from the Norwegian word skikjoring, meaning "ski driving." It started as a practical mode of transportation in Scandinavia and became popular in the Alps around 1900. Today's sport features horses at full gallop towing skiers by rope over jumps and around obstacles as they try to lance suspended hoops with a baton, typically a ski pole that's cut in half. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky skijoring
What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? An extreme — and quirky — winter sport called skijoring.
 
Volunteers pose for a photo in front of a “Love” art installation at the visitors center in Loveland, Colo., on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world route their Valentine’s Day cards to the “Sweetheart City” to get a special inscription and the coveted Loveland postmark. The re-mailing tradition has been going on for nearly 80 years and is the largest of its kind in the world. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)
Love is in the air ... and the mail ... in the northern Colorado city of Loveland
Love is in the air ... and the mail ... in the northern Colorado city of Loveland. Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world route their Valentines to the “Sweetheart City” to get a special inscription and the coveted Loveland postmark.
 
Pastor accused of defrauding investors of $3M via crypto scheme says he got help from ‘the Lord’
A Colorado pastor for an online church who is accused of defrauding investors of more than $3.2 million through a cryptocurrency marketplace he ran with his wife says “the Lord” helped him orchestrate the venture.
 
Stephanie Clark hugs her children, Brayson Hochevar and Alexis Clark, before a memorial service marking the one-year anniversary of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Clark's sister, Ashley Paugh, was among those killed in the LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)
A year after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub, community feels supported but says work remains
After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen’s birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people.
 
FILE - Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., followed by reporters, arrives to the Republican caucus meeting, Oct. 16, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado's rural eastern plains, announced Wednesday, Nov. 1, that he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, citing many in his party who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Republican US Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado won’t seek reelection, citing party’s ‘insidious narratives’
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado’s rural eastern plains, says he won’t seek a sixth term in Congress.
 
FILE - A demonstrator carries an image of Elijah McClain during a rally and march, June 27, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. Jurors convicted a Denver-area police officer Thursday, Oct. 14, 2023, and acquitted another of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Elijah McClain’s final words are synonymous with the tragic case that led to 1 officer’s conviction
As the death of Elijah McClain became a rallying point at police reform rallies in Colorado and across the county in 2020, the young man’s final words have become synonymous with the tragic case.
 
This undated photo provided by the sheriff's office of Chaffee County, Colo., shows Suzanne Morphew, who went for a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020 and never returned. Authorities announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, that investigators discovered Morphew's remains the previous Friday near Moffat, Colo., about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of the Salida area, where she was reported missing. (Chaffee County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Suzanne Morphew’s remains found 3 years after she went missing in Colorado. What happened to her?
The discovery of Suzanne Morphew’s remains three years after the Colorado woman went missing is raising new questions about what happened to her.
 
FILE - Barry Morphew leaves a Fremont County court building in Canon City, Colo., with his daughters, Macy, left, and Mallory, after charges against him in the presumed death of his wife were dismissed Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation found the remains of Suzanne Morphew, 49, during an unrelated search near the small southern Colorado town of Moffat on Friday, and she was positively identified Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. Morphew's husband, Barry Morphew, was charged in her presumed death, but prosecutors dropped charges against him last year just as he was about to go on trial. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)
Remains found of Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, who went missing on Mother’s Day in 2020
Authorities say investigators have found the remains of a Colorado woman who went for a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020 and never returned.
 
FILE - Mount Evans is seen near Idaho Springs, in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Sept. 10, 2016. On Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, federal officials renamed the towering mountain southwest of Denver to Mount Blue Sky as part of a national effort to address the history of oppression and violence against Native Americans. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)
A Colorado mountain tied to an 1864 massacre is renamed Mount Blue Sky
A towering mountain southwest of Denver has been renamed in honor of Colorado’s Indigenous people. The U.S.
 
Canisters of mustard gas, which are part of the United States' chemical weapons stockpile, wait for destruction at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Pueblo, Colo. The Department of Defense and its systems contractor, the Bechtel Pueblo Team, have more than 1,500 employees working on the project to disarm the more than 780,078 munitions containing mustard gas that have been on the site for more than eight decades. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
U.S. destroys last of its declared chemical weapons, closing a deadly chapter dating to World War I
The United States has destroyed the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile, a milestone in the history of warfare dating back to World War I.
 
Colorado mudslides wreak havoc on major transportation route
Mudslides that ripped through western Colorado last month marked the latest in a string of closures over the last two years for Interstate 70, a major transportation corridor between the Rocky Mountains and the West Coast.
 
Skiing in Colorado to resume amid coronavirus pandemic
Time to dust off those boots and tune those skis. At least one resort high in the Colorado Rockies is planning to reopen after a more than two-month hiatus caused by the coronavirus.
 
Precarious spot for mobile home owners as investors swoop in
 
Autopsy: Man killed by police was shot 3 times in back
Officials say a black man who was shot while running from police in Colorado died after being shot four times by police, including three times in his back.
 
Trump portrait adorns Colorado Capitol after Putin prank
President Donald Trump has finally joined the Colorado Capitol’s wall of presidential portraits. It comes a year after a prankster placed a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin near the spot intended for Trump.
 
Colorado teen called mom while subduing school shooter
A student who helped stop a shooting at a Denver-area high school says he was still pinning one of the attackers down when he decided to call one of the most important people in his life _ his mom.
 
Families say Colorado men killed fighting ISIS shared traits
Two men who were reportedly killed while fighting the Islamic State group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a warzone because of camaraderie and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.
 
A year after movie shooting, Aurora seeks healing
It was one year ago Saturday that a gunman opened fire early into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.” The rampage lasted less than two minutes but left deep wounds that still ache in Aurora, Colorado’s third-largest city which spreads out across the rolling plains