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Unemployment rates fell or held steady last month in nine key swing states at the center of this year's presidential election. Rates dropped in Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada and North Carolina. They were unchanged in New Hampshire and Virginia.

A popular Colorado Boy Scout leader named Floyd Slusher allegedly had a strategy when it came to molesting boys: He first plied his victims with alcohol, then abused them and threatened to kill anyone who talked.

An SUV stolen from outside a Colo. Walmart contained a 3-legged tortoise, a 13-foot Burmese python, a rattlesnake, five non-poisonous snakes, three scorpions, five lizards and a tarantula.

Online registration systems have dramatically boosted voter sign-ups in the dozen states that allow citizens to register to vote over the Internet. Colorado has logged more than 79,000 voter registrations since Sept. 1 — and more than 300,000 since introducing online sign-ups in 2010. In the two years prior to going online, the state logged roughly 90,000 registrations.

The suspect in a deadly movie theater attack in Colorado threatened a professor before the shooting, leading the university to ban him from campus, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday.

One staffer is dead and another was seriously injured in a disturbance at a state prison in southeast Colorado.

Colorado prosecutors on Thursday will again try to get a look at a notebook sent to a University of Colorado psychiatrist by the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting. The notebook, sent by suspect James Holmes to psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, reportedly contains descriptions of a violent attack that could be similar to the one at the Aurora theater on July 20.

The families of victims of the Colorado movie theater massacre said Tuesday at an emotionally charged news conference that although a fund intended to help them had raised more than $5 million, they had been shut out of the decision-making process.

Legendary country musician Willie Nelson has been hospitalized because of breathing problems, organizers told an audience in Colorado after the 79-year-old failed to show up for a concert.

The judge in the case of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes ruled on Monday to keep nearly all relevant court documents sealed from public view, and keep a gag order in place, saying disclosure of records could damage the investigation, and the defendant’s access to a fair hearing.