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On December 23, 2009 Elbert County Commissioners placed a moratorium on opening any medical marijuana dispensaries in Elbert County.

Pacemakers made for humans are giving older dogs a new leash on life. The medical devices -- about the size of a quarter -- are often implanted to speed up a slow heart rate in dogs brought on by disorders such as heart block and sick sinus syndrome that, if left untreated, drastically shortens their lives.

Colorado neo-Nazis cleaned up a highway in peace on Saturday after a battle to start their pick-up. Earlier this week the Colorado Department of Transportation shifted the neo-Nazis to a different highway spot.

Share + Comments Jan 27, 2010 9:04 pm US/Mountain BRIGHTON, Colo. The Colorado Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that there was an error in the processing of the National Socialist Movement's Adopt-A-Highway contract.

BRIGHTON - A week after the signs announcing their arrival on U.S. Highway 85 were posted, a group from the local chapter of America's Nazi Party was out cleaning up the roadside Saturday.

Gary Randall wasn't happy when he heard that a white supremacist group would be cleaning a stretch of U.S. 85 running past Elmwood Baptist Church, where he is pastor.

A pastor of a church in Brighton, Colo., said he kept a white supremacist group from picking up litter along a stretch of highway near his church.

Geoffrey Schell and Mari Sanchez, both of Greeley Jared Ells and Trista Ells, both of Evans Eric Hayes and Adrian Valentine, both of Evans Juan Lozano of Commerce City, and Yazmin Torres of Brighton Brent A. Rose and Anita Renee Banks, both of Lochbuie Jan.

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This winter has been brutal for street cleaning crews. The December cold snap and the chilly weather that followed have made it difficult for them to clear out ice buildup along the roadways.

Jayden Thomas Hughes, son of Steven and Gina Hughes, Broomfield, Colo., is celebrating his second birthday today, Jan.

The arrest of three people who police said were running a one-stop pot shop has highlighted yet another murky corner of the state's medical-marijuana law, people on all sides of the issue said Tuesday.

Moving the Christian mega-concert Heaven Fest from its Brighton origins to a Longmont location at Union Reservoir appears to be a winning proposition for all sides at first glance.

Police are looking for a doctor who they say was illegally rubber-stamping medical marijuana cards for people he'd never met, let alone seen as patients.

A Brighton chiropractor and two other people were arrested Saturday for distributing pot after police say 100 people gathered - and smoked - at a makeshift medical-marijuana dispensary.

CU student Gentry Knaub unpacks her bags in her Kittredge dorm room Sunday after returning from winter break, which she spent with her family in Loveland.

For more history, read "Then Fosston Story" section of "Three Coins: Cornish, Osgood and Fosston," by Dorothy Bolin, 1980, and "Homesteading the Dryland: A History of Northeast Weld County, Colorado," edited by Bud Wells, 1986 by Curtis Media Corp.

Companies working on "green energy" projects in Colorado have received a total of about $75 million in tax credits through the federal stimulus program.

Marijuana dispensaries have quickly become one of the state's fastest growing industries.