- Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the laws of physics. The experiment involves subatomic particles called muons. Professor Fred Gray chairs the Physics and Astronomy Department at Regis University in Denver. He explains the significance of this research.
- The Colorado Peaches are remembering their long-time coach, Gail Klock. Klock died last month at age 73 after a long battle with cancer.
- Last year broke records for both gun sales and gun deaths in the U.S. as people bought at least 20 million guns.
- 87-year-old Ed Dwight of Denver never got the chance to go into space himself, but an asteroid now bears his name. Dwight is among 27 African American, Hispanic and Native American astronauts recently honored with namesake asteroids for helping expand horizons beyond Earth and inspiring the next generation of space explorers.
- The coronavirus pandemic and record drought made 2020 a trying year for Colorado agriculture.
- “There are obstacles in the United States Senate, but we shouldn't assume that our political institutions are impervious to public opinion," said the Democratic representative of Colorado's 2nd Congressional District.
- So far, investigators have not yet determined if hate crime charges will be filed against the suspect in the shooting in Atlanta.
- Back from Broken is CPR’s podcast about recovery. How we’re all broken sometimes, but that it’s possible to find renewal. And just as we mark a year of the pandemic, season 2 premieres. Creator and host Vic Vela joins us. Vic’s also weekend morning host on CPR News.
- State lawmakers are a step closer to deciding where to place a Sand Creek Massacre memorial. Members of the Cheyenne and Arapho tribes, and descendants of survivors, testified before the Capitol Development Committee Thursday. They urged legislators to put the memorial outside the state Capitol replacing the statue of a Civil War soldier that was toppled during last year's protests.
- A year later, Ian Wolfe of Denver does not know how he got the novel coronavirus and hasn't had any lingering effects.
- Calls about possible child abuse have declined in Colorado, but during the pandemic, that doesn't necessarily mean children are more safe. Minna Castillo Cohen, the director of the Office of Children, Youth, and Families at the Colorado Department of Human Services, joins us with context.
- While three places have been added to the list, bringing the state’s most endangered places to 130, two have been removed.
