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Everyone Loved a Prison’s VFW Post—Until a YouTuber Found it
When the VFW opened a chapter inside northeastern Colorado’s Sterling Correctional Facility, the post was celebrated as a victory for prison reform nationwide. So why did it get canceled?
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Forgotten
Life, loss, fear, and hope in one Denver homeless encampment.
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Through the Fire
Twenty years ago, a Colorado Springs house fire killed three children and devastated a community. Prosecutors used spurious science to convict the parents of murder. Should there be a new trial?
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Why did Walter Springs Die?
When military police shot and killed a 24-year-old Denver soldier near his Army base in Texas in 1942, his family and friends suspected the military hid the true details. Eighty years later, this is the real story.
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The Enduring Legacy of Elijah McClain
In summer 2020, the nation's attention turned to the killing of a 23-year-old Aurora man. His death prompted a flood of more than 8,500 letters from outside the state of Colorado — all begging Governor Jared Polis for justice. We read every one.
Sports Illustrated
"Nobody in America can offer what we have"
How the Only All-Black Team in College Swimming Became the Sport's Hottest Ticket.
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National Defense
The inside story of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe’s race to protect its sovereign nation from Covid — and how the pandemic transformed this southwestern Colorado reservation forever.
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Lost and Found
Several long-serving members of NecroSearch, the world’s preeminent group for locating and retrieving missing bodies, are nearing retirement age. What happens to the organization once they’re gone?
ESPN
"You're the guy with the ball to the crotch"
"The photographer asked me what I wanted to do, expecting I'd do one of the basic poses. I thought about it for a second, and then it came to me: 'I want it to look like a comebacker hit me in the nuts.'"