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LOS ANGELES Heath Ledger’s body was taken to a celebrity mortuary in Los Angeles where family members and friends paid their respects, according to a report published Sunday.
The “Brokeback Mountain” actor’s body was at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary on Saturday, where it was taken en route to Ledger’s [...]

Tim Masters strolled into the Greeley Driver Licensing Test Center Friday morning, inviting smiles from the crowd and becoming perhaps the first citizen in Colorado history to avoid taking a number.
Employees and customers cleared a path for him to a service window. Within minutes, he breezed through a written exam but was frustrated that he [...]

LONGMONT When Alma Rico heard noises outside her apartment- leasing office last Tuesday, she looked out the window to see what the commotion was.
She saw a woman standing near a U.S. Postal Service truck refusing to go with Jesus Fabian Arvizu-Varela, 24, who moments earlier had been in Rico’s office trying to fax a [...]

Allegations that several saddle broncs performing last week in the National Western Stock Show %26 Rodeo were prodded by small hand- held electric devices are being investigated.
An animal-cruelty complaint was filed Friday with the Denver Animal Care %26 Control division by the group SHARK Showing Animals Respect %26 Kindness.
“Our goal is not to knock [...]

The basketball court sits in a church on West Alameda, tucked behind an Olive Garden restaurant.
Inside, balls hit the floor, not in any rhythmic way, just the scattered sound a half-dozen basketballs make when the dribblers are messing around practicing their moves.
“All right, everybody in!”
The sound comes from a middle-aged man in a powder blue [...]

With the Rockies’ first spring-training game exactly a month away, I am applying to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for exclusive rights to the word “Rockpeat.”
If you liked “Rocktober,” you’ll love “ApRocks” (as in April Rocks).
Well, maybe not.
But I should have trademarked “Orange Crush” after I originated the term. “Rockpeat” rocks.
I am making a [...]

ASPEN It may seem a bit unorthodox to hold the Super Bowl before the regular season, but in the budding world of skiercross racing, that’s the way it’s playing out.
By all accounts, today’s skier X competition at Winter X Games 12 will qualify as the paramount competition on the 2008 skiercross calendar. From Aspen, [...]

Home values nationally are falling, and U.S. stock markets have suffered their worst start on record this year over fears of an economic recession.
“It is more likely that we are heading to recession,” said Scott Sprinkle, a CPA and financial planner with Sprinkle %26 Associates in Littleton.
On Wednesday, preliminary fourth-quarter gross domestic product numbers will [...]

The lifestyle of cows that produce organic milk for a Colorado company has been called into question.
At the core of a debate that goes before an Arizona court panel Wednesday is the cows’ pasture time and their transition into an organic life.
The argument centers largely on whether consumers expect organic milk to simply be from [...]

Jer%26ocirc;me Kerviel, 31, was making roughly $145,000 a year to trade stocks for France’s second-largest bank, Societe Generale SA.
Some time last year, it appears, some of Kerviel’s trades went south. Perhaps he didn’t want to report an embarrassing loss, so he found a way to hide it by hacking into the bank’s computer system.
He also [...]