Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press/Report for America
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Businesses and lawmakers are trying to address the U.S. affordable housing crisis by turning to alternative ways to build homes. These include 3D printing houses out of concrete, building homes in a factory and shipping them to their final destination, and even using the hemp plant in construction.
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State officials say a portrait of President Donald hanging at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed it was "purposefully distorted." House Democrats said in a statement Monday that the oil painting would be taken down at the request of Republican leaders in the Legislature.
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The U.S. Education Department said it is investigating Denver Public Schools for alleged discrimination after the district converted a girl's restroom on the second floor of East High School into an all-gender restroom while leaving the other bathroom exclusively for male students.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are hunting a coyote that attacked a 4-year-old girl on Thanksgiving after she mistook it for a dog crouching behind a tree. The young girl and another child approached the coyote near Colorado Springs.
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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. The lawsuits allege the killings could have been prevented if the sheriff's office used the state's red flag law.
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Colorado funeral home owners accused of stashing 190 decaying bodies and giving grieving families fake ashes were expected to plead guilty Friday. Jon and Carie Hallford have been charged with more than 200 counts of corpse abuse.
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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.
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The Colorado Secretary of State's office says voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the department's website. However, state officials said Tuesday the lapse doesn't pose a threat to next week's election, and these were just one of two passwords needed to access voting systems.
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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. The district is 40% Latino and both candidates, Republican Gabe Evans and Democratic incumbent Rep. Yadira Caraveo, are descendants of Mexican immigrants.
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Colorado funeral home owners accused of misspending nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds have pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges for defrauding customers.