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Share + Dec 17, 2009 8:12 pm US/Mountain Reporting Terry Jessup EVERGREEN, Colo.

A three-year-old boy was airlifted to The Children's Hospital in Denver on Saturday afternoon after being hit by a car in the War-Mart parking lot in Evergreen, then dragged about 10 feet.

George Madrid was convicted late Thursday of first-degree murder in the death of James Norman Martinez Jr., whose body was discovered by former Colorado Rockies standout Larry Walker on Walker's Evergreen property.

" In keeping with its stated goals and objectives for 2010 the Telluride Town Council directed staff move forward with plans to annex the Valley Floor into its municipal limits during a worksession it held on Tuesday.

For the second consecutive year, Santa taps the Swinden Group to provide Severe Weather Advisories, Travel Security, and contingency planning for this year's Christmas Eve journey.

David Justice of Gunnison applauds a speaker at Saturday's rally. The race for the Republican nomination for governor has not been decided, contrary to the belief of some party elitists, speakers said at a Saturday rally at the state Capitol sponsored by Tea Party activists.

A move by gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to clear opponents from the Republican primary field and unite the state party under one banner has instead driven away some factions he had hoped to court.

The State Patrol says Trooper Edward Taylor was sitting in his patrol cal with the emergency lights activated Monday morning on the shoulder of I-70 when an eastbound 1996 Dodge Stratus lost control, went off the road and struck the patrol car.

Train, the multiplatinum band whose song "Drops of Jupiter " has proven to be one of the biggest singles of the past 10 years, played an almost-too-intimate concert at the Alice 105.9 studios ahead of their show at the Ogden Tuesday, leaving a handful of lucky fans starstruck.

A 19-year-old driver traveling with two small children ran off Interstate 70 in Jefferson County and struck a Colorado State trooper's cruiser this morning.

New Year's Eve isn't a time to sit at home sulking. It is a time to get all jazzed up and to go out on the town.

MATT OLBERDINGLincoln Journal Star Frustrated by the inability to get and keep new air service, the Lincoln Airport is calling in a professional.

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

Evergreen, CO's Mammoth HD has expanded its royalty-free library with the addition of 24 new collections.

It is one of life's great injustices that it is so easy to lose one's oomph, but so very difficult to find it again.

Boulder County's Democrats focused on cooling down the planet and heating up the campaign Sunday night at the party's annual Truman Dinner.

A Winter Storm Warning remained in effect for Colorado's Front Range, metropolitan Denver and eastern Colorado Sunday as a powerful storm buried the state with heavy snow.

Artist Perry Brent Davis on the Great Wall of China. Special to the Daily Perry Brent Davis' story runs from numerous locations along Colorado's I-70 all the way to Manchuria in upper eastern China.

A large, powerful autumn snowstorm slowly moved out of Colorado Thursday and trudged toward Nebraska and Kansas, causing blizzard-like conditions on the eastern plains and leaving in its wake treacherous roads and hundreds of canceled flights.

Typhoon Mirinae will remain at typhoon strength while tracking to the west and will most likely make landfall on Luzon, Philippines early Saturday.