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9 News Updates

• 2 Fort Carson soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  FORT CARSON (AP) -Two soldiers from Fort Carson have died following an attack in Afghanistan. […]
• District without grade levels: 'It's working'
  WESTMINSTER - At first, Hailey Sharp had to get used to the new standards-bases system in the Adams 50 School District. Instead of students being grouped together by age, they are grouped by ability. […]
• Friend says she was 'taken in' by woman who faked cancer
  JEFFERSON COUNTY - A friend of a 31-year-old Highlands Ranch woman accused of lying about cancer and collecting almost $60,000 from people trying to help her says Ann Crall was very convincing. […]
• Police arrest 17-year-old accused of attacking jogger
  GREELEY - Police say they have arrested a juvenile who attacked a jogger when the woman tried to stop a fight last week. […]
• Man shot and killed by Evans police identified
  EVANS - Evans police have identified the man shot and killed early Sunday morning after a standoff with police as 60-year-old Kenneth B. Yeager. […]
• Teachers stage 'sick out' on last day of school
  DENVER – On a day when students are supposed to celebrating the start of summer break, about two-thirds of the staff of the Denver Center for International Studies called in sick presumably to protest the failing contract negotiations with the district. […]
• EPA finishes well to drain Leadville tunnel
  LEADVILLE – The EPA has finished drilling a surface well that will be used to pump contaminated, trapped water that has built up inside the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel (LMDT). […]
• Parole officer cleared in fugitive's shooting
  DENVER – The Denver District Attorney says no criminal charges should be filed against a veteran parole officer who killed a wanted man when he threatened the officer with a gun. […]
• Historic elementary school has its very last day
  VIEW SLIDESHOW DENVER – The last day of school is nothing new for schools across the Denver Public School District. Smedley Elementary School has seen 106 last days, but Thursday was the very last one. […]
• Texas high court says sect kids should go back
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) - In a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their parents. […]