Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:35 PM EST
Police say no one apparently had a key to the locked movie theater restroom where a 66-year-old Colorado man lay undiscovered for days after he died of a heart attack.
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:25 PM EST
A soldier found dead in her barracks at a Colorado infantry post was identified Tuesday as a Houston woman whose death is being investigated as a homicide.
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Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:15 PM EST
A Colorado man who was killed when a 3-foot tree branch flew through his windshield and impaled him in the chest was able to steer the car to safety before losing consciousness.
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Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:23 AM EST
Santa already is piling up big numbers on social networking sites this season, so the volunteer Santa-trackers at NORAD are bracing for tens of thousands of calls and emails when their operations center goes live on Christmas Eve.
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:02 PM EST
A commercial U.S. satellite company said it has captured a photo of China's first aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea off the Chinese coast.
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:09 AM EST
The future of the U.S. Global Positioning System is taking shape in a vast white room south of Denver, where workers are piecing together the first of more than 30 satellites touted as the most powerful, reliable and versatile yet.
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Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:51 PM EST
The U.S. military has more than 200 programs devoted to brain injuries and the psychological health of its men and women, but no uniform way to evaluate whether they work or to share their findings, according to a study commissioned by the Pentagon.
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:37 AM EDT
Cpl. Kory Wiens was so fond of Cooper, the military dog he worked with, that he planned to stay in the Army long enough to adopt him when the Labrador retriever's bomb-sniffing career was over.
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Sat Oct 1, 2011 12:46 PM EDT
Charles Palmer is a hardy 71-year-old former Marine and Vietnam veteran who trains cockatiels to say "Semper Fi" and "Whatcha doin', man?"
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Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:33 PM EDT
The military is investigating allegations that two senior officials at the Air Force Academy provided misleading information about faculty credentials to an organization that accredits colleges and universities, The Associated Press has learned.
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Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:18 PM EDT
Two Secret Service agents on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to rule that they are immune from a lawsuit filed by a Colorado man who claims they violated his First Amendment rights when he was arrested for confronting then-Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:31 AM EDT
A group of infantry just back from Afghanistan sat down before computers at Fort Carson and began answering a series of questions:
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Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:34 PM EDT
A crucial tip that led to the arrests of three fugitive siblings in Colorado came from two retired officers, one a former state trooper and the other a former wildlife officer, authorities said.
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:02 AM EDT
Even as fighter jets were scrambled on successive days this month to intercept airspace violators near the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., military and civilian aviation officials say fewer pilots are breaking U.S. airspace restrictions this year.
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Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:45 PM EDT
A small piece of cloth stuck in a fuel line may be the reason a military communications satellite hasn't reached its planned orbit since it was launched in August, government auditors said Thursday.
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Sun Jul 3, 2011 11:31 AM EDT
The Defense Department is grooming a new type of commander to coordinate the military response to domestic disasters, hoping to save lives by avoiding some of the chaos that plagued the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort.
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:48 PM EDT
The future of the U.S. military space program will include tight budgets, complicated demands and increasing threats from orbiting debris and anti-satellite weapons, an Air Force general and a Pentagon official predicted Tuesday.
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:39 PM EDT
The United States is still "hugely vulnerable" to cyber attacks, but so are most other nations, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.
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Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:37 PM EDT
In a story March 21 about the Orion spacecraft, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date that a launch-abort system was tested. It was May 2010, not two weeks ago.
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Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:46 PM EST
A retired Air Force general who once served as commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy will assess the religious climate at the school, where allegations and court battles over religious tolerance have periodically flared for seven years.
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Wed Mar 9, 2011 11:44 AM EST
An Army helicopter that crash-landed during a high-altitude training mission in Colorado last year suffered $25.8 million in damage, officials revealed this week.
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Tue Mar 1, 2011 4:40 PM EST
An Army investigation blames the pilots of an Apache helicopter for a crash landing during a training mission in the Colorado mountains last year that left one of them seriously injured.
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Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:05 PM EST
The suicide bombing at Moscow's busiest airport is a tragedy that "could have just as easily happened here," the commander of NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command said Tuesday.
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Tue Jan 4, 2011 5:34 AM EST
A first-of-its-kind hijacking exercise involving the U.S., Canadian and Russian militaries went so well that a similar drill is planned for 2011, an American officer said.
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Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:53 AM EST
Strangers sometimes ask if they can touch 1-year-old Coltyn Hermanstorfer on the head or take his photo after he and his mother, Tracy, recovered from a near-death experience during childbirth last Christmas Eve.
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