Associated Press
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Officials in Denver say 10 people were taken to hospitals and dozens were displaced after an explosion and transformer fire at an assisted living facility. The Denver Fire Department says firefighters responded at the Eastern Star Masonic Retirement Campus on Wednesday and controlled the blaze.
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With two dynamic stars playing their final college game, the 20th-ranked Buffaloes were blown out 36-14 by No. 17 BYU in the Alamo Bowl. Travis Hunter, the Heisman Trophy winner and two-way sensation, caught four passes for a game-high 106 yards and a touchdown. Shedeur Sanders, the son of Colorado coach Deion Sanders, was 16-of-23 passing for 208 yards with two TDs and two interceptions.
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Kevin Davis had a career-high 148 yards rushing and two touchdowns on just nine carries and Jordan Brunson also ran for two TDs for Miami (Ohio). The Rams were making their first bowl appearance since 2017.
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Lindsey Vonn will return to World Cup ski racing next weekend for a pair of super-G events in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as she continues her comeback at 40 years old.
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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.
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Federal officials say E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states. That includes one person who died and 10 who were hospitalized. The specific ingredient tied to the outbreak has not been identified, but investigators are focused on onions and beef.
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Voters in nine states — including Colorado — are deciding next month whether to add the right to abortion to their constitutions. But passage probably wouldn't change access immediately or dramatically.
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On the court, Dikembe Mutombo stopped people. Off the court, he helped people. In simplest terms, that is the legacy of Mutombo, the 7-foot-2 mountain of a center who died Monday, about two years after his family revealed that he was dealing with brain cancer.
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It seems fitting that homecoming weekend in Boulder on Saturday coincides with the Buffaloes making their return to Big 12 play. Colorado left the conference following the 2010 season to join the Pac-12 and came back this season. The last time Colorado faced Baylor on the football field was Oct. 16, 2010.
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The FBI says it's investigating “what appears to be an attempted assassination” of Donald Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. It comes just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. Trump says he's safe and well.