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Koch Buys Himself Life-Size Old West Playhouse

Posted 08.21.2012 | Denver
Read More: Bill Koch, Royal Gorge Scenic Railroad, Video, Buckskin Joe, Gunnison Colorado, Billy the Kid, Gunnison News, Canon City, William Koch, Kock Brothers, Recapturing the West: The Collection of William I. Koch, Colorado Old West, Wild West, Old West, Denver News

"Nothing is impossible," so the saying goes, and is apparently a mantra that billionaire William Koch takes to heart. The oil tycoon whose net wor...

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Billionaire Koch Brother Buys Entire Town

Posted 10.30.2011 | Denver
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In a move that makes this Koch brother look more and more like the Monopoly board game mascot, Rich Uncle Pennybags, billionaire William Koch has purc...

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Unmanned Drone Subsidiary Struggles To Access Toxic Pond

Posted 10.10.2011 | Denver
Read More: Uranium Contamination, Denver News, Radioactive Waste, Environment, Cotter Corp., Canon City, Toxic Waste Cleanup, Colorado Uranium Mine, Denver News

Citing unsafe conditions, managers at Cotter Corp., the company that owns a decommissioned uranium mill near Canon City, Colorado, have asked the stat...

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Death Row Inmates Win Exercise Outside

Posted 09.27.2011 | Denver
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Keeping inmates from exercising outdoors for a prolonged period of time constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, according to a 1987 ruling by the 10...

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Cotter Corp. Approved To Dump 90,000 Gallons Of Radioactive Waste

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 08.28.2011 | Denver
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Cotter Corp. has received approval from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to dump 90,000 gallons of radioactive sludge and waste pr...

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Royal Gorge Bridge Not Actually World's Highest

Colorado Springs Gazette | R. SCOTT RAPPOLD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
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The world's highest suspension bridge -- it's been a claim to fame for the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park in Canon City for 80 years. Except it's not ...

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Colorado's Mastodon Find Is The Latest Chapter In The State's Paleontology History (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
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The recent discovery of mastodon fossils by teenagers near Denver made headlines all over the state and the country, but Colorado has been a hot bed f...

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