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If you make minimum wage, get ready for a raise. Amendment 42, which increases the minimum wage in Colorado, will take effect January 1. But not everyone is excited about the change. "It's gonna be less people making more money," said Conway's Red Top Operations Manager, Ralph Brown. Brown says 12 employees lost their jobs last month when the chain's Palmer Park location closed. He says the reason was low business and what the wage increase will cost the chain's remaining 4 restaurants. "It will be almost $100.00 a day for pay role at every store." That's money Brown says...

Allegations are again flying against Michael Merrifield, the Democratic incumbent in House District 18, where Republicans on Monday showed a video of his wife removing about a dozen GOP campaign signs. Merrifield quickly responded by charging the GOP with concocting any reason to defeat on Nov. 2 the only Democratic legislator from El Paso County. State Republican Chairman Ted Halaby showed film shot by a private investigator hired by the state party who Thursday and Saturday afternoons captured Merrifield’s wife, Ginger Spencer, removing signs promoting GOP candidates. She pulled the signs as traffic passed, did not wear a disguise or...

The heated debate over the authenticity of documents aired by CBS News purporting to show an effort to "sugar coat" President Bush's military record grew louder yesterday, when the Los Angeles Times reported that a retired major general who was consulted by CBS to verify the records now believes they were faked...