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Colorado eyes Mel Tucker as new head football coach
BOULDER — The University of Colorado has finalized a deal with Mel Tucker to become the new head football coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, 9NEWS has confirmed. Tucker, 46, has spent the last three seasons as defensive coordinator at the University of Georgia. His defense ranked 15th in the country this season and led the…
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Boy tries to overturn Colorado town’s ban on snowball fights
SEVERANCE — A 9-year-old boy is trying to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights in his small northern Colorado town, and he already knows who his first target will be if he’s successful — his little brother. “I think it’s an outdated law,” said Dane Best, who lives in the often snow-swept town…
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1 child dead, 45 people hurt in bus crash of youth football team
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — One child was killed and at least 45 other people were injured when a charter bus carrying a youth football team from Tennessee rolled off an interstate off-ramp and overturned before sunrise Monday in central Arkansas, authorities said. The elementary-school age football team from Orange Mound Youth Association in southeast Memphis…
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Nooses found hanging from trees at Mississippi state Capitol
Nooses were found hanging from trees at the state Capitol in Jackson Monday. The incident occurred the day before the state’s runoff election between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy. The race has garnered national attention with the Trump-endorsed Republican proclaiming to a supporter that if she were invited to a “public hanging” she…
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Broncos waive veteran cornerback Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones
ENGLEWOOD — Adam “Pacman” Jones’ short stint in Denver is over. The Broncos waived the 14-year veteran Tuesday after he’d appeared in seven games, posting nine tackles and one interception and three pass breakups. At 35, Jones might have a hard time finding another team in need of a cornerback/kick returner. He signed with Denver…
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Former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa sued over Colorado holiday rental
ASPEN — An Aspen company has sued former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa, alleging his company backed out of a contract to rent a house in the ski resort town for $9,500 a day last winter. The Aspen Daily News reported Saturday the suit by a company called MWTK Snowbunny Lane seeks $161,500 from Sosa…
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3 die in crash of medical plane in North Dakota
Three people died Sunday night when a plane operated by Metro Area Ambulance crashed in North Dakota. A search by the Morton County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Air Patrol and an Air Force Rescue Team in west-central North Dakota located the crash site around 2 a.m. Monday. Sheriff’s officers are on the scene and the investigation…
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U.S. closes busiest Mexico border crossing
TIJUANA, Mexico — The United States closed off northbound traffic for several hours at the busiest border crossing with Mexico to install new security barriers on Monday, a day after hundreds of Tijuana residents protested against the presence of thousands of Central American migrants. The U.S. also closed one of two pedestrian crossings at the…
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Swastika flag in Colorado protested by residents
FRUITA — Residents are speaking out against the display of a swastika flag in a western Colorado community. About 70 people marched to a home in Fruita on Sunday and rallied across the street for about two hours. They chanted anti-Nazi slogans and some held signs with profanities in the city of about 13,000. A…
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Mississippi senator’s ‘public hanging’ comment draws criticism
JACKSON, Miss. — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark was…