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Colo. Fake Bear Attack: Woman Pleads Guilty To False Reporting
DNA tests found Julie Bosworth, 38, to be lying about injuries she said were from a bear in Golden Gate Canyon State Park.

Jean Lotus is a Fort Collins native returning to NoCo. She has most recently been working in the Chicago area, where she wrote and edited for Chronicle Media, Pioneer Local and Wednesday Journal. In 2014, Lotus won the Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor award for best in-depth reporting. She also won two first prize University of Illinois Knight Awards for Investigative Journalism. She has a degree from University of Chicago and is a former daily reporter/night editor for the Lafayette, Ind. Journal & Courier (Gannett).
DNA tests found Julie Bosworth, 38, to be lying about injuries she said were from a bear in Golden Gate Canyon State Park.

Cymone Duran, 28, had been killed by a gunshot wound, the Jefferson County sheriff said.
Voters rejected a measure that would have required 2,500-foot setbacks for oil and gas wells from human dwellings.
BREAKING: With consent of Shanann Watts's family, DA Michael Rourke agreed not to ask the death penalty, in exchange for guilty pleas.
Titone pulls ahead. Jeffco approves school levy hike (5A), construction bonds 5B too close to call.
Golden voters shoot down 16-year-old voting. JeffCo voters approve 5A mill-levy hike for operating costs, school bond 5B too close to call.
Lakewood TABOR ballot measure passes. Voters approve JeffCo (5A) mill levy increase, construction bond (5B) increase too close to call.
Jared Polis declared victory in the governor's race. Diane DeGette won re-election in Co-01. Denver Ballot issues here.
A block of newbie progressive Statehouse candidates in heavily-Democrat districts may create a new team after winning elections Tuesday.
Democrats win: Jared Polis, Jason Crow, Joe Neguse, Griswold, Young. Weiser declares victory in AG's race.
A Dallas-based real estate firm plans to build a new hotel on Zang Street, according to the company's website.
Police Chief Paul Pazen said a former deputy chief did not act illegally when the department denied the existence of unflattering letters.
Delshon Giles, 24, killed a man after an argument, set his body on fire on the side of a road and tried to burn down a house in 2016.
A 36-year-old man was shot and killed by a homeowner inside a house he was allegedly burglarizing in the 1400 block of Downing St Friday.
JeffCo Sheriff's deputies and Colorado State Patrol Officers shot into a stolen car that was driving toward police the sheriff's office said
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Already, almost 45 percent of Colorado's active registered voters have sent in their ballots, as of Nov. 1.
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Reports say insiders have disclosed talks in Crystal City, Virginia for Amazon's moving employees and possibly renting real estate space.