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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a new school finance bill Tuesday that would change the way the state doles out money for education - but only if taxpayers pass an estimated $1 billion tax increase.

According to the official website for the Year of Faith, on Sunday, June 2, 2013, "the Holy Father will preside over a special Eucharistic adoration that will extend at the same time all over the world involving the cathedrals and parishes in each diocese.

Micah Lin, 3, watches pastry chef Abby Fernandez make cakes in the baumkuchen oven at Glaze, the Baum Cake Shoppe, on May 14.

A much-contested deal to trade eleven acres of open space in the Cherry Creek corridor for an office building in central Denver, pushed by Mayor Michael Hancock and approved by city council in April, has triggered not one but two citizen petition drives to nix the swap and protect the land in question -- one of the last remnants of a prairie ... (more)

North View Lumina, a 61-unit apartment building, will take up the site of the old Pagliacci restaurant in Lower Highland.

A police bike theft database obtained by 9Wants to Know reveals the worst back racks targeted by thieves.

TreeHouse Development plans to build a 61-unit apartment complex on the site of Pagliacci's Italian Restaurant, a North Denver landmark that closed its doors last August after 66 years in business.

On Friday May 17, 2013, Denver Fair Food members visited two Wendy's locations in Denver delivering letters in support of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers .

The public saw the current Colorado Department of Transportation plans to bury Interstate 70 through the Swansea neighborhood in north Denver at the Swansea Recreation Center in April 2013.

Officials with Colorado's Division of Motor Vehicles said that during the outage no drivers licenses, permits, ID cards, vehicle registrations or titles were being issued.

CBS4 has learned that DNA lifted from a payphone mouthpiece and fingerprints on the phone are some of the key evidence that ties Evan Ebel to the murder of 27-year-old Nathan Leon, a father of three.

Denver, Colo., May 19, 2013 / 04:01 pm .- Hovering 500 feet above the ground, a ride in the Prayer One helicopter offers community leaders the opportunity to join in fellowship and prayer above their beloved Mile-High City.

Officers were in West Denver on Sunday searching for David Shane Gosik, 34, at an apartment complex at Hampden Avenue and Harlan Street.

Colorado's recently approved gun control laws, passed in response to the Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., massacres, are being challenged by a delegation of sheriffs who say the laws are unconstitutional.

The Rev. Lucas Grubbs, the rector of the burned Church of the Ascension in Denver, wrestles with issues of urban homeless.

In his annual State of the State address last January, Gov. John Hickenlooper gave the General Assembly a wish list that included civil unions, universal background checks, tuition for undocumented students, Medicaid expansion, a comprehensive overhaul of the state's mental health system and school finance and a bill to support advanced industries.

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Weld County Sheriff John Cooke speaks during a press conference Friday morning at the Independence Institute, 727 16th Ave., in Denver.

Roy O. Downing was a 23-year-old part-time Denver policeman working on a cold morning in December 1920 when the open coal chute of a home on Park Hill's Bellaire Street caught his eye.

Kenneth Gomez, 30, serving time for burglary and disturbing the peace, escaped from a minimum-security prison near Golden on April 17.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories.