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Southwest is sending its operating chief, but not its CEO, to the Senate Commerce committee hearing.

Deion Sanders brought in the 21st ranked class of 2023 on Wednesday, getting two five-star players to commit to Colorado. Sanders is just two months into being the head coach at CU.

Lawmakers in 10 different states are pushing for legislation that would eliminate relicensing requirements for teachers moving across state lines.

Also in the Pac-12, Cormani McClain, previously committed to Miami, signed with Colorado to make it two straight years that coach Deion Sanders has landed a five-star cornerback. Last year, Sanders made recruiting history when he swayed five-star cornerback Travis Hunter to renege on a verbal commitment to Florida State and sign with Jackson State. The rest of the top 10 were LSU, Miami, Oregon, Tennessee and Notre Dame. Florida State, 16.017. Florida State, 2019.

Now one state lawmaker says it's time for everyone to wake up and smell the chile. Sen. Bill Soules' visit with fifth grade students in his southern district sparked a conversation about the savory hot peppers and the potential for New Mexico to become the first state in the nation to proudly have an official state aroma, a proposal now being considered by lawmakers. “It’s very unique to our state,” the Las Cruces Democrat said of roasting chile. It's at the center of the official state question — "Red or green?" We like to call that memory a person’s ‘chile story,’ and each of us as New Mexicans have a chile story," said Travis Day, executive director of the New Mexico Chile Association.

The man charged with murdering 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, nearly two years ago is still unfit for trial, a judge and prosecutors said Friday.

BOULDER, Colo. — (AP) — A man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket nearly two years ago remains mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge said Friday. Bakke said the latest report from the hospital finding Alissa incompetent also said he has a “reasonable likelihood” of reaching competency, an outlook also expressed in previous reports. Concerns about Alissa’s mental health were raised by his defense immediately after the March 2021 shooting. Competency is a different legal issue than a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which involves whether someone’s mental health prevented them from understanding right from wrong when a crime was committed. They said Alissa passed a background check to legally buy a Ruger AR-556 pistol six days before the shooting.

Photoshoots are an unintended — but amusing — use of the cameras. The Open Space and Mountain Parks department in Boulder, Colo., set up nine of them to learn about and protect local wildlife.

Polis spoke with CBS News' Major Garrett about Trump, presidential aspirations and how classified material should be handled, among other topics.

A judge says a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket nearly two years ago remains mentally incompetent to stand trial.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Colorado man is accused of intentionally driving his truck into the lobby of the Grand Junction Police Department on Wednesday, authorities said. >> Read more trending newsNathan David Chacon, 45, of Grand Junction, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted assault, reckless endangerment, attempted vehicular homicide, criminal mischief and attempted vehicular assault while driving in a reckless manner, according to Mesa County online jail records. While there were multiple employees in the building at the time of the crash, there were no injuries, according to the news release. “So he chose to drive into the lobby,” Raber wrote. “He advised he knew it was dumb but he knew what he needed to do in order to be heard.”©2022 Cox Media Group

Boulder County had partnered with an AI wildfire detection company called Pano AI, and the software had alerted authorities of the fire around the time the first 911 call arrived, Miller said. Still, Blankinship noted that “these cameras, even with AI, are only one component of the actual solution that is working." When a vote was called to send the bill forward, committee member Republican state Sen. Rod Pelton was enthusiastic. "I do not want to be the bucket of water on this bill so I will be a fiery, ‘Yes'," he said. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

DENVER — (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple's wedding cake because of his Christian faith lost an appeal Thursday in his latest legal fight, involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that that the cake Autumn Scardina requested from Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop, which was to be pink with blue frosting, is not a form of speech. Phillips, who is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, maintains that the cakes he creates are a form of speech and plans to appeal. Scardina, an attorney, attempted to order her cake on the same day in 2017 that the Supreme Court announced it would hear Phillips’ appeal in the wedding cake case. Phillips then filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado, accusing it of a “crusade to crush” him by pursuing the complaint.

The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith has lost an appeal in his latest legal fight.

The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith lost an appeal Thursday in his latest legal fight, involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that that the cake Autumn Scardina requested from Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop, which was to be pink with blue frosting, is not a form of speech. Relying on the findings of a Denver judge in a 2021 trial in the dispute, the appeals court said Phillips' shop initially agreed to make the cake but then refused after Scardina explained that she was going to use it to celebrate her transition from male to female.

An artificial intelligence program developed by a private company would analyze the images and sounds from cameras with 10-mile (about 16-kilometer) radiuses with the aim of detecting something that could signal the start of a blaze. There are hundreds of such cameras scattered across California, Nevada and Oregon, and even casual viewers can remotely watch wildfires in real time. Thursday's hearing will include testimony from a AI wildfire detection company called Pano AI. Their stations include two cameras mounted on a high vantage point, rotating at 360 degrees and connected to the company's AI software. Still, Blankinship noted that “these cameras, even with AI, are only one component of the actual solution that is working."

A 45-year-old Colorado man has been arrested after police said he "intentionally" drove his pickup truck into the Grand Junction Police Department's building. He's now facing multiple charges that include attempted murder, attempted assault and reckless endangerment.

No employees were injured, authorities said.

An artificial intelligence program developed by a private company would analyze the images and sounds from cameras with 10-mile (about 16-kilometer) radiuses in hopes of detecting something that could signal the start of a blaze. There are hundreds of such cameras scattered across California, Nevada and Oregon, and even casual viewers can remotely watch wildfires in real time. Thursday's hearing will include testimony from a AI wildfire detection company called Pano AI. Their stations include two cameras mounted on a high vantage point, rotating at 360 degrees and connected to the company's AI software. Still, Blankinship noted that “these cameras, even with AI, are only one component of the actual solution that is working."

Colorado lawmakers unanimously voted to push forward a bill that would create a $2 million pilot program to use cameras and artificial intelligence technology to help identify fires before they burn out of control.

The suit says surveillance video shows her wandering out of the facility in the middle of the night last winter, getting locked out, then banging on doors for help. But no one found her for five hours.

Grand Junction, Colorado police say a man intentionally drove his pickup truck into the lobby of a police station on Tuesday, but say no one was injured.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Wisconsin man accused of firing a gun inside a Colorado home was arrested Saturday after he fell out of an attic, police said. >> Read more trending newsAccording to a news release from the Grand Junction Police Department, Neil Patrick Veitch, 32, of Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested early Sunday. Police attempted several times to make contact with Veitch, who refused to cooperate, authorities said. A SWAT unit was sent to the scene, and police eventually made contact with the suspect, KKCO reported. “After several hours, officers were able to contact Mr. Veitch, who fell out of the attic,” the news release stated.

Having flipped a five-star recruit and reportedly moved into the mix for another star QB, Deion Sanders has made Colorado immediately relevant.

Pay transparency laws benefit marginalized workers, but economists warn they could also diminish the negotiating power of the labor force at large.

Former Denver Broncos defensive lineman Derek Wolfe details how he tracked and killed a 200-pound mountain lion in Colorado on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

NFL Hall of Famer Ed Reed announced that he will not be the next head coach at Bethune-Cookman, claiming that the university will not be "ratifying" his contract.

The charges stem from the role they are accused of playing in the 2019 death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative called ketamine.

Colorado assistant coach Tim Brewster responded to criticism stemming from a viral video of the coach addressing players in a team meeting.

Investigators with a Colorado sheriff's office have been reviewing video footage from a Denver-area Taco Bell where a man bought food and later fell ill.

Deion Sanders continues to make an impact on the recruiting trail at Colorado. On Thursday, Coach Prime made his latest splash, flipping five-star cornerback Cormani McClain from Miami.

Last year, he managed to sway Travis Hunter away from Florida State and bring him to Jackson State. Now at Colorado, Sanders landed a commitment from five-star cornerback Cormani McClain on Thursday night. McClain was previously committed to Miami, but he never signed his national letter of intent with the Hurricanes during the early signing period. And now he’s headed to the Pac-12 to play for Sanders, the Hall of Fame cornerback now entering his first season at Colorado. Additionally, 18 high school prospects signed with the Buffs during the early signing period, including four-star running back Dylan Edwards, who flipped from Notre Dame.

A new recently enacted program in Colorado aims to streamline the missing persons alert for Indigenous people in the state disproportionately victimized by domestic violence.

Nebraska state troopers arrested a 13-year-old driver from Colorado after a chase that topped 100 mph along an interstate highway earlier this week. A state trooper spotted an SUV driving about 35 mph on Interstate 80 near the city of Kearney on Monday night, but the driver sped up and fled east when the trooper tried to pull her over. The chase continued at speeds over 100 miles (161 kph) until another state trooper put out stop sticks, the Nebraska State Patrol said in a news release.

Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert told Fox News Digital that she thinks President Biden has a "shrewd insurance policy" against impeachment, citing Vice President Kamala Harris.

Both kids were taken into protective custody, authorities said. Troopers later found a firearm, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the car.

The Englewood Public Library is the second library in Colorado to have to close its doors due to meth contamination.

The investigation is categorized as an attempted homicide, but the case hinges on who put the rat poison in the food, when and where. The restaurant manager says the customer, who got sick after eating his food six hours after receiving it, comes in often and has caused problems before.

A Colorado professor believes Astrophysics is steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy and wants to change how physics is being taught and foster an inclusive environment.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — (AP) — For the second time in a month, a Colorado library has closed its doors to clean up methamphetamine contamination. The city of about 33,000 just south of Denver decided to test for the drug after officials in the nearby college town of Boulder closed its main library after finding meth contamination, Harguth said. They also pointed out that standards for how much meth contamination is acceptable were developed with an eye toward homes, where frequent exposure is more likely than in public buildings. The Englewood library has made some changes to help homeless people who go there. However after some library users said they did not feel safe, the city hired security guards last year, she said.

For the second time in a month, a Colorado library has closed its doors to clean up methamphetamine contamination. Officials in the Denver suburb of Englewood shut down the city library last week within a couple of hours of getting test results Wednesday showing that the contamination in the facility's restrooms exceeded state thresholds, city spokesman Chris Harguth said. The city of about 33,000 just south of Denver decided to test for the drug after officials in the nearby college town of Boulder closed its main library after finding meth contamination, Harguth said.

Nikola Jokic hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds remaining, capping his 12th triple-double of the season, and the Denver Nuggets won their 13th in a row at home by beating the Orlando Magic 119-116.

The paintings being transported included an Elaine de Kooning, famous for her abstract portraits of President John F. Kennedy, and four landscapes.

LAS VEGAS — A Colorado woman is accused of bypassing airport security in Las Vegas and flying as a stowaway to Los Angeles, authorities said. STOWAWAY ARRESTED: A woman reportedly bypassed airport security and flew as a stowaway from Los Angeles to Las Vegas before her arrest, documents say. According to a police report, Rice allegedly told officers that she had taken a bus from Colorado to Salt Lake City, KLAS reported. She then breached airport security and took a flight to Los Angeles. Officials added that Rice sneaked through TSA security on Jan. 7, then waited in a gate area for a day before boarding the flight to Las Vegas, KLAS reported.

Each year residents try to be clever with vanity plates. Each year, some go too far and are weeded out by a software program.

Michelle Labbe, chief people officer at Toptal, says the most successful companies of 2023 will be the ones laser-focused on employee retention. Here's why.

LITTLETON, Colo. — After three weeks, authorities in Colorado were able to catch a rare ringtail that had made its home in the shoe department of a Kohl’s store. The nocturnal ringtail, although native to Colorado, is a rare sight to see - but don't touch; they are wild. Take a photo instead 📸 pic.twitter.com/zqwWzMGZ3N — Jeffco Sheriff (@jeffcosheriffco) January 9, 2023In a Facebook post on Monday, the sheriff’s office said the nocturnal animal was been caught and relocated to nearby woods. Ringtails are native to Colorado but are still rarely seen, KUSA-TV reported. “The nocturnal ringtail, although native to Colorado, is a rare sight to see, but don’t touch; they are wild,” the sheriff’s office tweeted.

The Sun Devils women's basketball program was forced to cancel its next two games, scheduled against Utah on Friday and Colorado on Sunday, due to not having enough healthy players, the team announced Wednesday. Our plan is to get our team healthy over the course of this week and be ready when we host Arizona Jan. The team's next game will come against Arizona on Jan. 22, assuming the team is healthy by then. Arizona State didn't say which players were out, but Isadora Sousa, Maggie Besselink, Imogen Greenslade, Morasha Wiggins and Jaylah Robinson were all reportedly dealing with injuries as of last week. Admittedly this is a very unusual situation, one that requires us keeping the health of both injured and healthy players as the main focus."

Shrewd. That's the most apt way to describe the attempt of Coach Prime, Colorado and Arizona State to move their Pac-12 opener up to Week Zero.

They asked Judge Robin Chittum to hold the office in contempt and order it to pay $10,000 in fines and train staff on the records sealing law. But Chittum, siding with lawyers for the sheriff's office, said the defense had not presented facts that showed that the sheriff's office was the source of the information. Chittum said that could have been done by members of a number of local or national law enforcement agencies. “I’m loaded and ready.”The charges filed against Aldrich in the 2021 case were dropped after the grandparents refused to cooperate with prosecutors and testify. She said the “profound” public interest in the case outweighed Aldrich’s privacy rights.

Lawyers for Anderson Aldrich, who is charged with killing five people and wounding 17 others at Club Q in Colorado Springs in November, accuse the El Paso County Sheriff's Office of leaking documents in the old case to the media. But the sheriff's office says that Aldrich's lawyers have not presented any facts showing that the sheriff's office leaked the documents, noting that Aldrich's lawyers have also said that courthouse staff could have been the source of the information. However, Colorado Springs television station KKTV obtained documents that showed details of the allegations against Aldrich in the old case. The documents were later verified as authentic to The Associated Press by a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the sealed case and kept anonymous. Judge Chittum said the "profound" public interest in the case outweighed Aldrich's privacy rights.

A ringtail that survived on eating ceiling tiles and shoe boxes in a Kohl's shoe department was captured, police say.

As much as facilities, Folsom Field or the allure of trying to pull off a seemingly impossible rebuild, it was likely the fine print that brought Deion Sanders to Colorado. College football's most electric coaching candidate, the Hall of Fame player now known as “Coach Prime,” almost certainly wouldn't have taken his talents to Boulder without a thorough review and rewriting of admissions rules at Colorado, an area in which the Buffs struggled to adapt to the new realities of the transfer portal. In the new landscape of college football, players can move from school to school via the portal without having to sit out one season.

A ringtail cat was caught living in the shoe department of a Kohl's for three weeks before law enforcement officials were able to catch the intruder.

Jeremiah Green, the founding drummer for the rock band Modest Mouse, has died just days after the band announced he had been diagnosed with cancer.

In a little over four years, new heavy truck makers will have to cut harmful nitrogen oxide pollution more than 80% under standards released Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

It goes without saying that Deion Sanders is eager to win his last game with Jackson State.

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub have testified to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the LGBTQ community as they urged lawmakers to pass a law banning some semiautomatic weapons.

The suspect accused of entering a Colorado Springs gay nightclub and killing five people and wounding 17 others was formally charged with 305 criminal counts including hate crimes and murder.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples.

Deion Sanders has brought the buzz back to Boulder.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has visited the memorial outside a gay club where five people were killed in a shooting attack last week.

Deion Sanders says a report stating Colorado has offered him its head coaching job is true and he has also received interest from other schools.

After a gunman in Colorado Springs was taken down by bar patrons, News 6 spoke with a self-defense expert who expressed the importance of self-defense.

A survivor of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando is set to fly to Colorado Springs in support of the victims of the Club Q attack over the weekend.

The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub has been ordered held without bail in an initial court appearance.

A Colorado state panel has recommended Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky.

Marijuana advocates are looking toward their next states to target after experiencing some mixed results in the recent elections.

KJ Simpson had 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead Colorado to an 78-66 upset victory over No. 11 Tennessee.

Colorado voters have passed a ballot initiative to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for people 21 and older and to create state-regulated centers where participants can experience the drug.

Republican Lauren Boebert’s race against Democrat Adam Frisch remained extremely tight on Thursday and could be headed for a recount.

Voters will take on the soaring costs of housing in Colorado next Tuesday when they decide on a bevy of local land statewide ballot measures.

Colorado voters are set to decide whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and older and create state-regulated “healing centers” where participants can experience the drug.

Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, has emphasized in his reelection campaign his efforts to ease inflation’s burdens on families and fight crime while touting first-term triumphs in health care affordability, public education funding and climate policy.

A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history.

Colorado Democrat Adam Frisch is trying to downplay his own party affiliation as he tries to lure Republican voters who he thinks are weary of Rep_ Lauren Boebert's brand of what he calls “angertainment.”.

A Colorado businessman returns to New York for a retrial on charges that he cheated thousands of donors to an online crowdfunding campaign to build a wall along the southern U.S. border.

Voters in five states are deciding whether to close loopholes that allowed convict labor as an exception to slavery.

Artturi Lehkonen and Valeri Nichushkin each scored two power-play goals, Mikko Rantanen had four assists and the fast-skating Colorado Avalanche began their Stanley Cup title defense with a 5-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks.

President Joe Biden designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site in Colorado.

Colorado’s secretary of state’s office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote.

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for online threats he made last year against Colorado’s top elections official in one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers across the U.S. who have been subject to increasing threats since the 2020 presidential election.

The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a gay couple a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling that he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law — this time over complaints he refused to make a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition.

The revelation earlier this week that federal prosecutors are involved in investigations of suspected voting system breaches across the U.S. is fueling questions about the security of voting machines just two months before the midterm elections.

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell says federal agents have seized his cellphone.

The few Republican candidates across the U.S. this year who say they support abortion rights still find themselves under attack on the issue.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Taurean Prince was arrested at Miami International Airport.

A judge in Colorado on Tuesday ordered a legal adviser for former President Donald Trump’s campaign to travel to Georgia to testify before a special grand jury that’s looking into whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over issues including age limits and bans on AR-15-style guns.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a indicted Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists after she allegedly traveled out of state despite a court order not to do so.

Colorado officials say the former elections manager for a county clerk indicted on charges of tampering with voting equipment has been arrested on allegations that she was part of the alleged scheme.

Colorado Republicans have rejected an indicted county clerk as their nominee for secretary of state, choosing a former local official who ran on a platform of taking politics out of running elections.

Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

The Colorado Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup after dethroning the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Colorado Avalanche were stymied in their quest to close out the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Nazem Kadri scored at 12:02 of overtime — perhaps with too many Colorado players on the ice — and the Avalanche beat Tampa Bay 3-2 on Wednesday night in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final to move within a victory of dethroning the two-time defending champion Lightning.

Steven Stamkos, Pat Maroon and Ondrej Palat each had a goal and an assist, and the Tampa Bay Lightning scored four times in the second period and beat the Colorado Avalanche 6-2 in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.

A Nebraska man has pleaded guilty in federal court to making death threats against Colorado’s top elections official.

The fast-flying Colorado Avalanche have zoomed out to a 2-0 series lead over Tampa Bay in the Stanley Cup Final.

The Colorado Avalanche overwhelmed the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-0 in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.