- The image is the result of light bending through a camera lens in the Hubble Telescope, NASA says. Party poopers.
- The teachers union there is calling for "a day of mourning for the loss of teaching and learning."
- Amy Purdy lost her legs to a severe case of bacterial meningitis. Now she’s the top-ranked female adaptive snowboarder in the U.S. and was a finalist on season 18 of “Dancing with the Stars.”
- As we’ve learned over the past few weeks talking to Colorado teenagers growing up in poverty, the lower rungs of the economic ladder are a tough perch from which to even think about going to college, let alone gain entrance — and then pay for the education.
- In case you missed it, Coloradan Tommy Caldwell and his climbing partner Kevin Jorgensen recently wrapped up a stunning 19-day achievement.
- The best alpine skiers in the world, including hometown ladies Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn, are in Vail-Beaver Creek for the next few weeks.
- Long before he was Jack Kerouac's muse for "On The Road," and "Cowboy Neal" to the Grateful Dead, Neal Cassady grew up dirt poor in pre-World War II Denver.
