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Tuesday, May 14, 2013  Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes 12 years after similar Monsanto push failed

Friday, February 15, 2013  Meteor falls in Russia's Chelyabinsk region; 500 injured by explosions

Tuesday, December 11, 2012  By eighth grade, American students have fallen behind their Russian, Japanese and Taiwanese counterparts in math, and trail students from Hong Kong, Slovenia and South Korea in science.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012  A high school girl in San Antonio has been expelled for refusing to wear a school-mandated RFID tracking badge around her neck.

Monday, September 24, 2012  'Science Guy' Bill Nye says religious-based dismissal of evolution endangers US science

Tuesday, March 20, 2012  Colorado Springs School District 11 has suspended two 13-year-old students after they brought an air soft gun to school and shot three students Monday afternoon.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012  Final preparations are underway for Colorado's caucus. Tuesday night, starting at 7, voters will gather at their designated precinct where they will participate in a straw poll.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012  By now you have probably heard it at least a dozen times. The word that only comes around once every four years: caucus.

Thursday, June 02, 2011  On designated Fridays this summer, you can soar over the zoo as the sun goes down and get a closer look at the night sky.

Thursday, April 14, 2011  First lady Michelle Obama is visiting a Colorado school attended by the children of soldiers stationed at Fort Carson.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011  Colorado Springs mayoral candidates have been campaigning for months trying to be the first "Strong Mayor," but once the ballots are turned-in and counted on April 5, the long list of candidates could push us into a run-off election.

Monday, March 14, 2011  Terminally ill boy moved to US after Canadian court rules doctors can remove breathing tube.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011  National test shows fewer than half of 4th, 8th, 12th grade students proficient in science.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010  Oprah Winfrey's foundation has given a Denver charter school a $1 million grant to help add other campuses in the city.

Monday, August 23, 2010  The head of the National Education Association is kicking off a back-to-school tour in Denver.