Updated: 5:15 PM A bill working to protect the rights of same sex partners to get married and share benefits will be heard tomorrow.

Updated: 5:13 PM There will soon be a new program in Colorado Springs to help women identify and even avoid heart disease.

Updated: 5:16 PM The Denver Museum of Natural History will pay tribute to the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia Tuesday morning.

Updated: 5:09 PM A retired Navy admiral who investigated the USS Cole bombing will head an independent probe of the space shuttle tragedy.

Updated: 5:06 PM A Thornton company's efforts could provide important clues to the demise of the space shuttle Columbia.

Updated: 4:57 PM A new nationwide report says Colorado's complex tax structure has crippled the state's ability to cope with an economic downturn.

Updated: 4:55 PM Worldcom says it will cut another five-thousand jobs or about eight percent of its workforce.

Updated: 8:01 PM Government officials are working with NASA to piece together yesterday's Columbia tragedy.

Updated: 7:57 PM A controversial expansion of the El Paso County Jail is going ahead, despite being voted down, and rejected by the Justice Department.

Updated: 7:42 PM Denver investigators are still trying to determine how a 13 year old girl living in a home with dead animals was overlooked by social services.

Updated: 7:32 PM Pueblo Police are investigating a suspicious fire and possible explosion at a home which led to one woman's death.

Updated: 8:03 PM Colorado is again mourning one of its own in the latest shuttle disaster.

Updated: 7:51 PM A Colorado School of Mines experiment was on board the Shuttle Columbia when it broke apart.

Updated: 7:46 PM Pueblo residents and business owners are fighting to overturn the recently imposed smoking ban in the city.

Updated: 7:43 PM Record high temperatures and record low snowfall in Denver is worrying Coloradans.

Updated: 8:03 AM NASA engineers settled into their long, joyless task of figuring out how space shuttle Columbia broke apart, saying conditions in the shuttle's final minutes point to a possible problem with its critical heat-protection tiles.

Updated: 12:15 PM Seven people were on board the space shuttle when it exploded Saturday.

Updated: 12:18 PM School of Mines research project was one of 80 experiements completed by the shuttle crew before Saturday's accident.

Updated: 11:47 AM The spacecraft was minutes away from landing when it exploded over Texas, killing all seven people on board.

Updated: 5:02 PM Colorado Springs Police are searching for a man they say is impersonating a officer of the law.

Updated: 5:00 PM By this time of the year, farmers in the Arkansas Valley should be preparing their fields for the growing season.

Updated: 4:50 PM A Colorado Springs woman convicted of child abuse resulting in death will get a new trial.

Updated: 4:48 PM Remains of a Denver home have been removed. The residentce was destroyed by a plane crash and explosion.

Updated: 4:46 PM United Airlines' parent company is reporting a loss of almost $1.5 billion.

Updated: 2:31 PM Some Cooper Lighting 500-watt halogen bulbs and Zenith large-screen televisions have been recalled.