Colorado Times: 04/27/14

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Waste collection day May 10

The Pueblo City-County Health Department and the city of Pueblo wastewater department and stormwater utility will hold a recyclable waste collection day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 10 at the Colorado State Fairgrounds, Gate 3 westbound off Mesa Avenue.

News Source

Tuition limit bill sent to Hickenlooper

DENVER — A bill to limit the annual tuition increase at Colorado colleges and universities to no more than 6 percent was sent to Gov. John Hickenlooper for his signature Friday.

News Source

Arizona Game and Fish stocking trout in hatchery

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona wildlife officials are planning to stock a hatchery with thousands of young trout to boost fishing activity in Mohave County. The Arizona Game and Fish Department says it will put 21,000 juvenile rainbow trout in the Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, which is along ...

News Source

Flyers' firing of Peter Laviolette raises tough questions for failing organisation | Colin Horgan

Philadelphia acted because '0-3 is 0-3', but shouldn't everyone from the chairman down take a good look at themselves? Three games into the new season and the NHL saw its first managerial casualty. What is it that Peter Laviolette did wrong at the Philadelphia Flyers? If he knew on Monday, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren didn't seem to offer many specifics. "I've had concerns for a while ...

News Source

Dodgers' Ramirez exits early

Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez left Saturday's contest against the Colorado Rockies prior to the start of the fourth inning with a bruised right thumb.

News Source

2013 year in review: Obama talks climate change – but pushes fracking

Global warming stopped being political poison, there was no let up in fracking or coal exports, writes Suzanne Goldenberg This was the year when climate change came out of the closet. Barack Obama elevated climate change to one of his top presidential priorities. White House and other officials brought up the topic in public after spending the previous four years scuttling away from any mention ...

News Source

At this fair, kids always win

Children were rolling cartwheels on the newly greened spring grass at Pueblo City Park. Some were swinging and others sliding with parents keeping a watchful eye.

News Source

District demands log removal

CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/FILE The Colorado Department of Transportation agreed to remove this stack of logs it put in Fountain Creek at Fountain.

News Source

La Junta man also contending in HD47

There is a second Democrat running for the state House District 47 seat — Terrance J. Hestand, of La Junta. Hestand, 30, qualified for the June 24 primary ballot at the Colorado Democratic Assembly earlier this month. The other Democrat seeking that office is Lucretia “Robbie” Robinson, of Pueblo.

News Source

Colorado triple murder suspect arrested in Oklahoma

Harry Carl Mapps was wanted on charges of fatally shooting three people and setting fire to their home Authorities said on Sunday that a man suspected of killing three people and setting fire to a home in southern Colorado had been captured in Oklahoma after a nationwide manhunt. Sheriff Kirk Taylor of Pueblo County, Colorado, said 59-year-old Harry Carl Mapps was captured at a motel in Roland ...

News Source

US drug enforcement official: legalising marijuana threatens US institutions

Thomas Harrigan urged a House oversight panel not to abandon scientific concerns over marijuana in favor of public opinion to legalize it

News Source

Avalanche Wild Game 5 Pregame: Predictions, Analysis on The Press Box

The Press Box with Benjamin Hochman, The Pioneer Press' Chad Graff, Terry Frei of The Denver Post, and Peter McNabb of Altitude TV on Avalanche Wild Game 5.

News Source

Playoff NHL – Detroit a casa, Boston al secondo turno

Boston passa il primo turno playoff secondo pronostico. Nulla hanno potuto i Red Wings nonostante il ritorno di Datsyuk e Zetterberg . Forse il passivo di 4-1 è stato eccessivo, non si è vista tale differenza sul ghiaccio e se Rask è stato il miglior giocatore della serie qualcosa vorrà pur dire.

News Source

Oscar’s next topic: Legalized prostitution

Las Vegas' former mayor and his wife, the current mayor, agree on most subjects. But not this one ...

News Source

Wal-Mart fortune shapes school alternatives

WASHINGTON - DC Prep operates four charter schools here with 1,200 students in preschool through eighth grade. The schools, whose students are mostly poor and black, are among the highest performing in Washington. Last year, DC Prep's flagship middle school earned the best test scores among local charter schools, far outperforming the average of the city's traditional neighborhood schools as well.

News Source

Fourteen men arrested for operating child-porn site through Tor

Secret members-only child pornography website involved 251 children, mostly boys, in the United States and five other countries

News Source

Wild must move past crushing Game 5 overtime loss to Colorado

Nathan MacKinnon killed the Wild yet again in overtime, an overtime the Wild feels never should have existed.

News Source

What's the use of being found? #findthebeauty #fromtheheart #freedom #seeeverythingaroundyou #spiritofsnowboarding #snowboardcolorado #skicolorado #snowboarding #photooftheday #picoftheday #themilehighcity #thephotosociety #denvertography #plasmatography #jj_denver #jj_colorado #imagesnipers #coloradocameraclub #coloradotography #coloradolove #coloradophotographs #dailylife #natgeo #amazing #denverontherocks #denver #spring #runcolorado #hikecolorado #mygalaxy by azaelt23

via Instagram http://ift.tt/QKGFTl

National League

___

News Source

Baseball Expanded Standings

___

News Source

MLB: Gonzalez aids Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers defeated Colorado Rockies on Saturday Adrian Gonzalez continued his excellent recent run as the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame the Colorado Rockies 6-3.… via Emag.co.uk

News Source

MacKinnon leads Avs to 4-3 OT win over Wild

DENVER (AP) Nathan MacKinnon scored 3:27 into overtime after P.A. Parenteau tied the game late in regulation, helping the Colorado Avalanche rally for a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night and a 3-2 lead in the first-round series. MacKinnon poked the puck past Darcy Kuemper's glove with two defenders all over him. The rookie also had two assists. Parenteau scored with 1:14 left ...

News Source

Wild Minute: A crushing loss in Colorado.

The Wild rallied to take the lead in Game 5, only to see the script from the opening game of the series repeat itself in Denver.

News Source

Area educators: Tragedy like New Milford stabbing hard to prevent

The fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old girl in a Milford High School Friday is every educator’s worst nightmare, New Britain and Bristol school officials said.

News Source

eight turtles. I took this at a lake near Belmar Park in Lakewood Colorado. . #awesome_shots #animal_captures #colorado #circle_of_e_invite #coloradocameraclub #denver #denversdirty #global_hotshotz #heyduke #igs_photos #instanaturefriends_ #jj_unitedstates #love_natura #mostdeserving #nature_uc #photowall_nature #rsa_nature #turtles #wildlifephotography by heyduke

via Instagram http://ift.tt/1hAxRcr

Mohave’s boys place first in region multi

KINGMAN — The Mohave boys track team finished first and its girls squad placed second at the Colorado River Region Multi at Lee Williams High School on Friday afternoon.

News Source

Father, son from Illinois killed in Kabul attack

CHICAGO (AP) — A proud father visiting his son in Afghanistan spent what would become both men's final days seeing the city where the younger man ran a small clinic, drinking tea with a university colleague and learning about his son's work.

News Source

John R. Wessling

John R. Wessling, 68, of Windsor, passed away at home on April 24, 2014, surrounded by his family.

News Source

Impact beat Union, 1-0

Felipe Martins scored in the 15th minute and Montreal held on to beat the visiting Union, 1-0, at Stade Saputo on a chilly, wet Saturday for the Impact's first Major League Soccer victory of the season.

News Source

Marijuana legalization gives penny stock a wild ride

The news releases began to flow in February.

News Source

Tribe reaches Skywalk deal

FLAGSTAFF (AP) — A three-year contract dispute over the Grand Canyon Skywalk is over.

News Source

NHL: Bruins into semis

Boston Bruins: Sealed place in semi-finals The Boston Bruins have advanced to the Eastern Conference semi-finals after a 4-2 victory in game five sealed a… via Emag.co.uk

News Source

Rockies-Dodgers Preview

If the Los Angeles Dodgers are to break even on a 10-game homestand, they'll have to do so without Hanley Ramirez in the lineup.

News Source

Dodgers use HRs from Gonzalez, Kemp to beat Rockies

Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Adrian Gonzalez and Matt Kemp both homered to back a solid seven-inning start from Paul Maholm, as the Los Angeles Dodgers downed the Colorado Rockies, 6-3, on Saturday in the second installment of a three-game set.

News Source

Police Beat

• Johnathon Ortego, 19, 109 Sylvester St., Ville Platte, simple burglary and felony theft. • Angela Christine Speyrer, 35, 208 St. Louis St., Carencro, illegal use of a controlled dangerous substance in presence of a person under the age of 17 and two counts of possession of schedule IV drugs.

News Source

Dee Gordon runs circles around Rockies for infield double

Dee Gordon turns a chopper to second base into a clean double.

News Source

Turnaround specialist gambling on moribund Burlington mall's revival

The former Burlington Center Mall, now the Marketplace at Burlington, hasn't been right for a long time - it's a shell of what was once a healthy retail center and community draw.

News Source

Fishing helps rehabilitate disabled military vets

FRISCO, Colo. — Since the fall of 2010, disabled military service members and veterans have been coming to Summit and Grand counties to spend a few days wading through crystal-clear rivers and…

News Source

MacKinnon leads Avs to 4-3 OT win over Wild

DENVER - Nathan MacKinnon scored 3:27 into overtime after P.A. Parenteau tied the game late in regulation, helping the Colorado Avalanche rally for a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night and a 3-2 lead in the first-round series.

News Source

US drug enforcement official: legalising Marijuana threatens US institutions

Thomas Harrigan urged a House oversight panel not to abandon scientific concerns over marijuana in favor of public opinion to legalize it

News Source

NHL play-offs: Bruins advance, Penguins take series lead

The Boston Bruins sealed progression in the NHL play-offs on Saturday as the Pittsburgh Penguins took another step towards doing likewise.

News Source

State to pay for trout stocking: Game and Fish will provide 21K juvenile fish in short-term agreement

PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department, in cooperation with Mohave County and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is creating a short-term solution to provide recreational fishing opportunities this fall in the Willow Beach-Bullhead City area.

News Source

MLB wrap: Orioles, Marlins win thrillers

The Baltimore Orioles squared their MLB series against the Kansas City Royals in a thriller, while the Miami Marlins rallied to a win.

News Source

Sports lineup

(T) - taped (JIP) - joined in progress

News Source

John Conniff and Tom Mobley: Monument proposal needs stronger protection for grazing

The Dec. 29, 2013 issue of the Sun-News carried a guest opinion written by Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich explaining S1805, the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Act (OMDP). Commenting on livestock grazing, the senators said, "The monument would continue to be managed by the Bureau of Land Management, as it is today.

News Source