News Headlines for Amherst, Colorado

Taste of Colorado fence questioned (Rocky Mountain News via Yahoo! News)
Some Civic Center denizens, both longtime regulars and recently arrived protesters, were miffed Wednesday to find the park partially fenced off for this weekend's Taste of Colorado festival.

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Presidential Race Might Be Decided In Centrist Colorado (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
If Democrats again fall short in Ohio, as John Kerry did in 2004, Plan B is certain to involve Colorado.

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Colorado's Sakic returns for 20th NHL season (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Joe Sakic will play in the NHL for a 20th season after signing a one-year deal with the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday, the team said on their website.

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Colorado delegates go for Obama in roll call (Rocky Mountain News via Yahoo! News)
Colorado delegates have cast their votes in the roll call of states: 55 for Barack Obama, 15 for Hillary Clinton.

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Colorado Business (Denver Post)
The University of Colorado at Boulder is teaming up with Hiberna Corp., a Boulder-based company developing drugs based on natural models of extreme metabolic regulation, to use pythons as models for new therapeutics to treat cardiac diseases.

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MLB: San Francisco 4, Colorado 1 (UPI)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Seventh-inning home runs by Bengie Molina and Pablo Sandoval put San Francisco in front Wednesday and the Giants went on to down Colorado 4-1.

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Local prep teams to play Colorado squads (Orlando Sentinel)
Four of Colorado's top high school football teams and one Texas team play regular-season games at Disney's Wide World of Sports this week.

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Colorado Buffaloes (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
If any North Division team joins Missouri and Kansas in the Top 25 rankings this season, it probably will be Colorado. The Buffaloes have eight defensive starters returning from a 6-7 bowl team, led by tackle George Hypolite. The offense returns QB Cody Hawkins and adds Darrell Scott, the nation’s top-ranked freshman running back signee, below. The offensive line is solid. If the Buffs can ...

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Colorado Rockies beat Giants, pull within six of Diamondbacks (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
SAN FRANCISCO - Jorge De La Rosa was in trouble from the start, so much so that Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle had to turn away.

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Big-game season begins in Colorado (Vail Daily)
The first big-game hunt of the season begins this week in Colorado. That means hunters, hikers and backpackers are sharing the forest.

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