By Quentin Young | editor
“Coloradoans interested in going through the (firearm) purchase eligibility process have been able to do so reasonably quickly and in large numbers, particularly given how new this process is.”
– Dan Coil, CPW’s firearm safety program manager
Demonstrators hold signs during a Here4TheKids gun violence prevention sit-in at the Colorado Capitol on June 5, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
Around 500 people in Colorado have completed a firearm safety course and exam required by a new state law to buy certain popular guns during the first month of the law’s implementation. That’s according to a legal filing in a lawsuit against the new law. The law established a process for people to purchase semiautomatic firearms with detachable magazines in the state. Opponents say it is an onerous hoop to jump through to practice a right guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
The crash of United Flight 93 is marked by a boulder at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stonycreek Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 26, 2026. (Photo by Tim Lambert/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)
By Shalina Chatlani
On a rural stretch of land in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, an open meadow filled with bright wildflowers, a memorial grove of trees and a giant boulder marks the spot where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. States Newsroom’s Pennsylvania Capital-Star Editor-in-Chief Tim Lambert recently revisited the national memorial on this field — where he happened to own a piece of land that was part of more than three dozen acres that made up the crash site.
Global AI is set to create a data center at the former Carestream Health property at 2000 Howard Smith Avenue W in Weld County. (Screenshot from Google Maps)
By Sara Wilson
The Weld County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to allow the development of a new data center by an artificial intelligence infrastructure company. The 5-0 vote approved the zoning for a proposal from Global AI to create a 41-acre data center in an unincorporated area of the county near Windsor. It could become the biggest data center in the state. The decision came after a daylong hearing that included hours of public comment, mostly in opposition to the project.
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