DAN ELLIOTT

Associated Press
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Police: No one had key to restroom where body lay

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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Soldier killed at Colo. Army post was from Houston

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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CO driver killed by branch steered car to safety

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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NORAD Santa trackers stand by for another big day

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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APNewsBreak: Satellite gets pic of Chinese carrier

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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Next wave of GPS promises stronger signals

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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APNewsBreak: Study: PTSD programs duplicated

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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Park honors fallen soldier, beloved canine comrade

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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For Listeria victims, sudden turns for the worse

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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APNewsBreak: Investigation at Air Force Academy

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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Agents seek immunity from suit over Cheney arrest

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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Military steps up effort to detect brain injuries

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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Retired officers gave key tip in fugitive search

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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FAA stats show fewer pilots break airspace rules

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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GAO: Blocked fuel line hampered military satellite

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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New type of commander may avoid Katrina-like chaos

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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Military in space: Less money, more junk to track

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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Retired general: US vulnerable to cyber attacks

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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Correction: Lockheed Martin-Colorado

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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Retired general to review religion at AF Academy

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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Damage to Army helicopter in Colo. crash: $25.8M

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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APNewsBreak: Army pilots, training cited in crash

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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NORAD boss: Russian attack could've happened in US

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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US, Russia plan more anti-hijacking exercises

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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Colo. family still in awe of mom, baby's recovery

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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