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Where does Colorado’s Congressional delegation stand on gun access?

WASHINGTON – A heated debate over gun control awaits the U.S. Congress when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next month, but Colorado Republicans don't...

DPS students to lawmakers, administrators on gun violence: ‘Please, I’m begging...

The girl, a seventh grader, tiny in an oversized red T-shirt, her hair pulled back into a bun, stood before a group of adults...

The Indy 500: “I always knew this would happen.”

The chatter from the stream of families leaving the Northridge Recreation Center — for today, a family reunification hub — was disturbing, and not...

Telling the stories of the more than 1,200 kids killed by...

A year ago today, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student in Parkland, Fla., entered the school and gunned down 14 students and...

Littwin: My newspaper friend who was killed at the Capital Gazette...

My friend worked at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. My friend is dead. Shot by a madman with a gun that, in...

Littwin: It’s not only hearts that are broken when kids are...

If we didn’t know better — and, of course, we do — we’d think it was pretty much impossible for a president to appear...

Wiretap: More mass shootings than days in 2015

Per day We don't know yet the motive in San Bernardino, but the statistics on violent shootings tell this story: There has been a mass...

Wiretap: Religion, guns and politics fuel the mass-shooting debate

Another shooting The Umpqua Community College killer was armed, reports say, with three handguns and an assault rifle. One witness said the Oregon shooter, Chris...

#Coleg Notebook: Minimum wage, maximum disagreement

Last year, Colorado lawmakers engaged in a five-hour floor fight about raising the minimum wage. Were they considering hiking it to $15 an hour,...