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Administrators armed in W. Colo. school district
DENVER (AP) — As lawmakers across the country debate arming teachers and administrators to prevent another deadly school shooting, one Colorado school district has voted to let its superintendent and a high school principal carry concealed semi-...
Tags: Lawyers, Government, Politics, Labor Legislation, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Gay marriage, marijuana backed in historic votes
Altering the course of U.S social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado set up a showdown with federal authorities by legalizing recreational use of marijuana....
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Elections, Politics, Recreational Substance Use, Civil Rights
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Colorado wildfires ranks as most destructive in state history
DENVER (Reuters) - An 85-square-mile (220-square-km) wildfire raging out of control for a week in northern Colorado has destroyed 181 homes, ranking it as the most destructive blaze in state history, fire officials said on Saturday. The so-called High...
Tags: Forestry and Timber, Disasters and Accidents, Environmental Issues, Wildfires, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Colorado sheriffs sue to block new gun-control laws
ReutersBy Keith Coffman DENVER, May 17 (Reuters) - A group of Colorado county sheriffs, angry over two new state gun control laws passed in the wake of last year's mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Politics, Trials, Lobbying, Laws
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For Democrats in 2016, it's all about Hillary Clinton — so far
WASHINGTON — It sounds like a bad joke from an old comedy routine. Question: How do you take on Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination? Answer: Very carefully. Clinton is almost universally popular among Democrats as...
Tags: Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Government, Elections
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Maine Governor Courting Gunmakers
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceMaine Gov. Paul LePage's administration is actively courting gunmakers and ammunition manufacturers to relocate to that state, focusing on companies that have threatened to leave states that have passed new gun control measures. In an op-ed column for...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Politics, Labor Legislation, The Wall Street Journal, Business
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Man possibly linked to killer of Colorado prisons chief captured
A man linked to a white supremacist gang has been apprehended in Colorado and will be questioned in the shooting death of the state’s prisons chief, officials said Friday. James Lohr, 47, was taken into custody in Colorado Springs on Friday and...
Tags: Murder, Tom Clements, Prisons
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Maryland House passes gun-control bill
The House of Delegates voted Wednesday to give Maryland one of the toughest gun laws in the nation, passing a bill that would ban the sale of assault-type weapons, set a 10-bullet limit on magazines and require fingerprints and a license to buy a handgun....
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Elections, Politics, Montgomery County (Maryland), Michael E. Busch
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States move quickly, divergently on gun laws
Even as momentum for new gun legislation wanes in Washington, lawmakers across the country are fashioning their own response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, resulting in a patchwork that tightens restrictions in some places and eases them...
Tags: Democratic Party, Newspaper and Magazine, Elections, Politics, Labor Legislation
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Few states find narrow route to gun control laws
From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...
Tags: Joe Biden, Democratic Party, Elections, Politics, University of Illinois Springfield
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Alleged home invader shot to death, raising gun issues in Colorado
President Obama was in Colorado on Wednesday, hoping to use the recent enactment of gun-control legislation there as a way to spur support for his own package of proposals. But a politically purple state such as Colorado can also offer ammunition for...
Tags: Coral Springs, Wayne LaPierre, Lawyers, Politics, Lee Stevens
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Death penalty also on trial in Colorado theater shooting
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Prosecutors are expected to announce Monday whether they will seek the death penalty in the Aurora movie theater massacre — a decision that could affect not only the defendant, James E. Holmes, but also capital punishment...
Tags: Lawyers, James Holmes, Politics, Trials, Justice System
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