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Former RI Senate candidate runs for Colo. governor

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:40:07 -0400

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - Steve Laffey, a onetime Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Rhode Island, announced Tuesday he's running for governor of Colorado.

Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:08:04 -0400

DENVER - In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots.

Ohio governor to alert families to execution mercy

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:20:45 -0400

COLUMBUS, Ohio - In the future Ohio Gov. John Kasich will call family members of murder victims when he decides to spare the lives of death row inmates, the governor's office said Friday.

Theater attack prompts new Colo. mental health law

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:40:25 -0400

DENVER - Days after a gunman entered a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 moviegoers and injuring 70 others, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado health officials began talking about revamping a state mental health system that had been devastated by budget cuts.

Top Colo. Dems seek sex offender criminal review

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:17:43 -0400

DENVER - Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and top Democrats in the Legislature are seeking a panel review of state sex offender laws after criticism from Republicans that current penalties need an update.

Colorado ushers in new law with midnight unions

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:48:49 -0400

DENVER - The first gay couple granted a civil union in Colorado said their vows before hundreds of people early Wednesday morning at a downtown Denver municipal building where couples and members of the public gathered.

Colorado ushers in new law with midnight unions

Wed, 01 May 2013 03:41:40 -0400

DENVER - The first gay couple granted a civil union in Colorado said their vows before hundreds of people early Wednesday morning at a downtown Denver municipal building, where eager couples and members of the public gathered to celebrate the first legal unions.

Study of gun restrictions on mentally ill advances

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:34:37 -0400

DENVER - A proposal to study possible firearm restrictions on the mentally ill and those with substance abuse problems in Colorado advanced Tuesday, a measure prompted by the case of the suspect in the Aurora movie theater massacre, who had been seeing a psychiatrist before the shootings.

Stoned-driving standard fails again in Colorado

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:32:54 -0400

DENVER - A marijuana blood limit for drivers was rejected Monday for a fourth time in the Colorado Senate, where bipartisan skepticism on the pot analogy to blood-alcohol limits helped sink the measure even in a weaker form.