In the time since the Aurora shooting case got underway, Gov. John Hickenlooper has made it his policy that no one in Colorado will be executed as long as he is in office.
The California governor will travel to the Vatican for a symposium on climate change and human trafficking, along with several mayors. They're making the trip one month after Pope Francis issued an encyclical on the environment.
The city is paying rates that approach 8 percent on the $743 million in taxable debt sold Wednesday. Chicago's borrowing costs have risen dramatically relative to other borrowers as its credit rating has deteriorated.
Four of the state's 17 federal judges have retired or moved to part-time status, but the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, under GOP control, has taken no action on three pending nominations backed by New Jersey's Democratic senators.
Cody, Wyo., conspiracy theorists insist the body of the frontier celebrity is buried somewhere atop Cedar Mountain, outside the town he founded, and not really in Colorado.
The city attorney's office has filed charges against only 27 of the 323 protesters arrested _ fewer than 9 percent _ and has formally rejected charges against 181.
