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Posted: 10:20 AM Authorities say a body found nearly a year ago along the South Platte River in western Nebraska was that of a Wisconsin fugitive.

Posted: 9:36 AM Officials say a 78-year-old man tied a puppy to train tracks in the California desert, and an engineer had to use emergency brakes to keep from crushing it.

Updated: 9:21 AM A three-year project funded with $100 million in federal stimulus money that promised to connect more than 170 communities throughout the state with a 1 gigabit, high-speed fiber-optic Internet connection is on hold in Colorado.

Posted: 2:28 PM A person familiar with proposed bipartisan immigration legislation being written in the Senate says the bill would require greatly expanded surveillance of the U.S. border with Mexico and greatly increased apprehensions of border crossers in high risk areas.

Posted: 12:48 PM Authorities say a 4-year-old who gained access to a loaded gun during a family cookout has shot and killed the wife of a Wilson County sheriff's deputy.

Updated: 10:01 AM Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is in Israel on a personal visit.

Posted: 5:14 PM The seep of liquid hydrocarbons in a western Colorado gas field has affected a larger area than initially believed.

Posted: 5:12 PM An inmate accused in the 2002 slaying of a prison worker will be placed on trial and prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

Posted: 5:11 PM Sheriff's officials say a fire has destroyed about 60 marijuana plants in a garage being used to grow pot in Larimer County.

Posted: 10:32 AM Authorities in New Mexico say a Mesa Vista school bus driver has been killed and at least two children hurt when a bus rolled on the way to school.

Posted: 8:17 AM Colorado Lawmakers will decide if Marijuana Dispensaries must grow their own pot to sell.

Posted: 1:37 PM Senate aides say a Democratic and a Republican senator are working on a compromise expanding required federal background checks to gun shows and to online firearms sales.

Posted: 1:32 PM The public debate over the nation's immigration system is set to begin in earnest this week as senators finalize a bipartisan bill to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign workers into the country and grant eventual citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.

Updated: 11:24 AM The father of a young U.S. diplomat killed in southern Afghanistan says his daughter always had a passion for foreign affairs and was preparing to learn Arabic for an assignment in Algeria.

Posted: 9:34 AM Slain southern West Virginia Sheriff Eugene Crum will be honored during a funeral service on Sunday.

Posted: 9:30 AM A top Iranian lawmaker declared Sunday that Iran will never halt its nuclear development program, a day after the latest round of international talks failed to reach agreement on the issue.

Updated: 9:25 AM Afghan officials say a NATO airstrike killed 11 Afghan civilians, including 10 children, during a fierce gunbattle with Taliban militants yesterday that also left one U.S. civilian adviser dead in eastern Afghanistan

Posted: 11:54 AM A growing chorus of lawmakers is asking New York City to settle with the five men whose convictions were overturned in the notorious Central Park jogger case.

Posted: 11:49 AM Abortion rights advocates in Kansas are worried that the legislature's approval of a declaration that life begins "at fertilization" will inspire new attempts to prevent the procedure.

Posted: 11:41 AM Activists and state media say a Syrian government airstrike on a heavily contested neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least five people, while mortar rounds slammed into a residential district in Damascus, leaving at least one person dead.

Posted: 11:31 AM ix Americans and an Afghan doctor have been killed in Afghanistan today.

Posted: 11:26 AM The EU's foreign policy chief says that nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers have failed to reach an agreement.

Posted: 4:56 PM The Colorado prisons chief shot to death at his home last month has been honored in his native state and the college town where he lived for nearly three decades.

Posted: 4:50 PM Authorities in northern New Jersey say a woman whose body was found with her 3-month-old twins, who were dehydrated but responsive, died of natural causes.