Central City News

VIEW SLIDESHOW DUMONT - The Clear Creek County Sheriff says three homes caught on fire just south of Interstate 70 early Thursday morning.

Blue Sky Collective founder Jen Schafer-Habib, who owns a used-book store on the main level of the group's building in Lakewood, takes a break Tuesday from packing up her 100,000 books.

A view from inside one of the homes on the Central City Opera's L'Esprit de Noel Holiday Home Tour.

Colorado's budget woes could mean wage cuts for state workers, fewer tax breaks for businesses and less money for schools.

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Luann Dodge, left, a registered nurse, soprano and member of The Spirituals Project board, rehearses with the choir, whose members include, front row from left, Melissa James, Patricia Cowan, Alice Raspberry, Shermita West and Patti Wright.

Casinos owned by Colorado's American Indians are doing big business, but not that big.

On the heels of higher casino-bet limits, new games and 24-hour gambling, a Colorado development company has several projects planned for the Central City/ Black Hawk market.

More than $600,000 has been withheld from winnings of deadbeat parents who gamble in Colorado in the first year of a controversial law that requires casinos to check whether big winners owe child support.

Pam North Gilpin County The Gilpin County Board of County Commissioners held their regular meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, at the County Courthouse.

A Colorado law has netted more than $600,000 from the gambling winnings of deadbeat parents.

A Colorado law has netted more than $600,000 from the gambling winnings of deadbeat parents.

Some say the Belvedere Theater in historic Central City, Colorado is one of the most "haunted" landmarks in the United States.

Nederland Margaret Iorio, one of Nederland's long-time resident old-timers, died last week due to complications from a fall.

MORE ON 9NEWS @ 6 P.M. H1N1 SPECIAL SECTION GILPIN COUNTY - Seasonal flu shots are being offered at many locations across the state, including pharmacies and grocery stores.

A Granby woman who was traveling from Black Hawk and rolled her car - spending five days and nights enduring rain, hail and nighttime temperatures around 40 degrees - is expected to be released from the hospital this weekend.

It was a drawn-out struggle for survival - one that started last Thursday when Cynthia Hoover, 68, careened off Central City Highway.

The higher bet limit and round-the-clock gambling at Colorado's casinos have local law enforcement officers putting in longer hours.

A Colorado woman survived five days in the wilderness after a car crash. Cynthia Blair Hoover was left injured and all alone as wild animals roamed around her.

"She had a heck of a will to live," is just one of the superlatives Central City fire chief Gary Allen uses in describing Cynthia Hoover.