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Trump rally and oil platforms photographed in northern Colorado today. Love it.

Interstate 25 will be closed through downtown Denver while presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks at Invesco Field at Mile High on Aug. 28, officials said Friday. A five-mile stretch of the freeway between U.S. 6 and Interstate 70 will close at about 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 28, the office of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. I-25 will remain closed through the evening as Obama accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination as its presidential candidate on the final night of the Democratic National Convention. The freeway will reopen after the program at Invesco Field concludes. “Thursday morning rush hour will not be...

I-25 chain-reaction crash driver sentenced By Juliette Rule rep9@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - They sat on one side of the courtroom, almost 20 of them, dressed for a funeral, their eyes wet with tears, clutching crumpled Kleenex in their hands. Across the aisle, one man sat, his face scruffy with a beard, a denim jacket over his white T-shirt. He was the defendant's only friend in court Wednesday morning: there to hear how the driver of a semitrailer who began a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 25 would be sentenced. The family of 64-year-old John Beers, the only...