Salazar to tour Colorado solar plant, urging Senate to act on climate change billLONGMONT, Colo. — Standing inside a solar energy plant, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar vowed Tuesday that the health care debate in Washington won’t slow progress on a sweeping climate change bill. Colorado boy, 12, dies during rodeo competition after being thrown, stomped on chest by bullLONGMONT, Colo. — Authorities say a 12-year-old Colorado boy died after he was thrown by a bull at a rodeo. Colorado bus rider finds 19th century checks and old rusty tools at a bust stopLONGMONT, Colo. — Some 19th century checks and old rusty tools were left months ago at a bus stop in Longmont, and police say no one has come forward to claim them. The Regional Transportation District turned over the unusual items to police in March after a rider said she found them at a bus stop in Longmont. The items include handwritten checks from 1884 mounted on mat boards, as if they’d been on display. Police seize 53 baby birds from Colorado teen; 40 die, survivors recovering at rehab centerLONGMONT, Colo. — Police in Colorado have confiscated 53 baby birds from a 15-year-old boy who apparently took them from neighborhood nests and stored them in his bedroom. |