The Colorado Department of Corrections should have done more to inform victims of the Aurora theater shooting about the out-of-state transfer of gunman James Holmes, a state subcommittee has ruled.
Reported by Denver Post 6 days ago.
Theater gunman’s secret prison transfer should have been better disclosed, victims’ rights committee says
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Aurora police search for missing 12-year-old boy
Aurora police are asking for the public's help in locating a missing 12-year-old boy named Jovani. The boy is 4 feet tall, weighs 90 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans and was carrying a skateboard.
Reported by Denver Post 6 days ago.
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Aurora Crime Blotter: Innocent child’s father breaks 7-Eleven glass door
A boy's father asked a 7-11 clerk why he was watching his son, and the clerk said he believed the boy was stealing candy.
Reported by Denver Post 20 hours ago.
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Business Q&A: A+ Mail Room, Aurora
No more waiting in line at the Post Office or FedEx.
Reported by Denver Post 19 hours ago.
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Aurora@Home housing program growing, can’t afford loss in momentum
Aurora@Home was started in 2013 to help 25 families in danger of becoming homeless. This year, the program can serve up to 65 families, but federally proposed budget cuts would only allow it to serve 20 families.
Reported by Denver Post 19 hours ago.
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Baywood Hotels Raises Over $60,000 for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Hospitality Management Company Fundraiser for National Children’s Charity
(PRWEB) April 19, 2017
Baywood Hotels, a hotel management company headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, launched its national “Miracle in a Bottle” fundraiser across over 80 hotels in the Mid-Atlantic, Florida, New York and Texas regions to help the nationally known Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The bottled water fundraiser was launched as part of Baywood Hotels’ community initiative Baywood Education and Reach Initiative (BEAR).
Formally launched in December 2015, Miracle in a Bottle is Baywood Hotels’ first company-wide fundraising effort, as each of its hotels also performs charity work in the local community. BEAR-branded bottled water is currently and exclusively sold in the company’s hotels’ on-site markets and at the front desk to guests, clients and staff for a mere $2 per bottle. All profits, averaging $1 per bottle sold, will be donated to hotels’ local Children's Miracle Network Hospitals locations. In March 2017, over 17,000 bottles of water were sold, raising an additional $17,685 for donations for a combined total of over $60,000 since program launch.
"Baywood Hotels is proud to see this initiative take off nationwide at our hotels," said Chief Operating Officer Rick Fenstemaker. "We have had staff that has had personal experiences with CMN and we truly see the value as an organization."
For more information about Baywood Hotels’ Miracle in a Bottle fundraiser or other BEAR initatives, contact Rick Fenstemaker at 301-389-3836 or visit http://www.baywoodhotels.com/community/
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About Baywood Hotels
Established in 1975, Baywood Hotels, Inc. is a fast-growing and privately-owned hospitality management company operating $1 billion in assets and employing over 1,800 associates nationwide. The company is headquartered in Greenbelt, MD, and has regional offices in Aurora, CO; Herndon, VA; Miami; Pittsford, NY and San Antonio. In each of its regions, the private hotel ownership company is consistently recognized as an innovative leader in the hotel industry, focusing on product concept and development and the outstanding management of its assets. The focused vision, strong values and aggressive long-range strategy of Baywood Hotels have helped the company develop reputable and well-branded hotels in areas where Baywood has competitive expertise and partnerships. Baywood Hotels’ portfolio includes well-known brands, such as Marriott, Hilton and InterContinental Hotels Group, as well as several independent brands. Visit the Baywood Hotels website or find us on Twitter or Facebook.
About Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment and charitable care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity's Miracle Balloon icon. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit’s mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Find out why children’s hospitals need community support, identify your member hospital and learn how you can Put Your Money Where the Miracles Are, at CMNHospitals.org and facebook.com/CMNHospitals. Reported by PRWeb 11 hours ago.
(PRWEB) April 19, 2017
Baywood Hotels, a hotel management company headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, launched its national “Miracle in a Bottle” fundraiser across over 80 hotels in the Mid-Atlantic, Florida, New York and Texas regions to help the nationally known Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The bottled water fundraiser was launched as part of Baywood Hotels’ community initiative Baywood Education and Reach Initiative (BEAR).
Formally launched in December 2015, Miracle in a Bottle is Baywood Hotels’ first company-wide fundraising effort, as each of its hotels also performs charity work in the local community. BEAR-branded bottled water is currently and exclusively sold in the company’s hotels’ on-site markets and at the front desk to guests, clients and staff for a mere $2 per bottle. All profits, averaging $1 per bottle sold, will be donated to hotels’ local Children's Miracle Network Hospitals locations. In March 2017, over 17,000 bottles of water were sold, raising an additional $17,685 for donations for a combined total of over $60,000 since program launch.
"Baywood Hotels is proud to see this initiative take off nationwide at our hotels," said Chief Operating Officer Rick Fenstemaker. "We have had staff that has had personal experiences with CMN and we truly see the value as an organization."
For more information about Baywood Hotels’ Miracle in a Bottle fundraiser or other BEAR initatives, contact Rick Fenstemaker at 301-389-3836 or visit http://www.baywoodhotels.com/community/
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About Baywood Hotels
Established in 1975, Baywood Hotels, Inc. is a fast-growing and privately-owned hospitality management company operating $1 billion in assets and employing over 1,800 associates nationwide. The company is headquartered in Greenbelt, MD, and has regional offices in Aurora, CO; Herndon, VA; Miami; Pittsford, NY and San Antonio. In each of its regions, the private hotel ownership company is consistently recognized as an innovative leader in the hotel industry, focusing on product concept and development and the outstanding management of its assets. The focused vision, strong values and aggressive long-range strategy of Baywood Hotels have helped the company develop reputable and well-branded hotels in areas where Baywood has competitive expertise and partnerships. Baywood Hotels’ portfolio includes well-known brands, such as Marriott, Hilton and InterContinental Hotels Group, as well as several independent brands. Visit the Baywood Hotels website or find us on Twitter or Facebook.
About Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment and charitable care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity's Miracle Balloon icon. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit’s mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Find out why children’s hospitals need community support, identify your member hospital and learn how you can Put Your Money Where the Miracles Are, at CMNHospitals.org and facebook.com/CMNHospitals. Reported by PRWeb 11 hours ago.
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Next Wave #767: Dermot Kennedy
An extremely talented yet remarkably humble Irish artist...“I’ve always wanted to develop from the acoustic side of things,” *Dermot Kennedy* tells Clash over the phone. The Irish singer-songwriter has swooned the crowd, with the honest and organic songwriting of single ‘After Rain’ receiving more than 20 million plays on Spotify. Stepping things up on his new EP, Dermot proves himself as more than just another guy with a guitar.
After seeing his cousin performing at a party, the curious newcomer soon picked up the acoustic himself. “I just basically wanted to be him for a really long period of my life,” he admits.
His most recent EP, ‘Ravens And Doves’, saw the singer venturing into different soundscapes than his previous releases. “It’s a sort of play on light versus darkness”, he tells Clash. “The sound is different from what I’ve done in the past, but it feels really good. It feels like a natural step for me to have taken and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve been doing the acoustic thing for quite a while but I was looking forward to take a step away from that.”
With his live shows selling out by the minute and hype descending on both social media and streaming services, it’s an understatement to say that the newcomer hit something special. What is it with his music that creates such a reaction?
“Probably lyrically. I guess people can relate to what I’m saying. That’s the main thing, and then it’s on me to make sure that people who aren’t necessarily ‘lyrics people’, people who just sort of search for great music and really nice production, and like actual arrangements that can be moving, it’s on me to do something for them too.”
With such eloquent lyricism, it’s clear that Dermot draws on particular influences. Though he uses personal experiences, that art of balancing storytelling with realness makes his songs so evoking. “It’s not necessarily always the catchiest thing or the thing with the best kind of lyrical flow. Sometimes it can just be someone who’s brutally honest.”
Though singing to a bigger audience, the Irish artist is very real about where he comes from. “I’m still young enough to be developing as a songwriter,” he ponders. “There’s things I’ve written in the past that I nearly cringe at because at the time I thought they were really good, and now I just think they’re really bad.”
Speaking of hype, we often measure it in Spotify plays and social media likes, yet converting this to concert tickets is a difficult task. “Thankfully, whatever is happening on Spotify and any part of my online thing that’s busy, it feels as if it translate. It can be situations where someone get’s a ton of plays on Spotify and it’s just passive listens and it’s not people that buys tickets to shows, but thankfully that hasn’t happened,” Dermot reflects.
Seeming at ease with what’s going on and where he is, Dermot Kennedy is very open about the future. “You see the beautiful thing is that everything is happening naturally and nothing’s forced so I’m just gonna keep doing what I’m doing.”
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Words: *Aurora Henni Krogh*
For tickets to the latest Dermot Kennedy shows click *HERE.*
**B*uy Clash Magazine* Reported by Clash 2 hours ago.
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PROSHRED® Chicago Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary
PROSHRED® Chicago Has Grown Exponentially Over the Last Decade and now Celebrating Their 10 Year Anniversary.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 19, 2017
As of April 2017, PROSHRED® Chicago is excited to celebrate its 10th anniversary in business. Since 2007, PROSHRED® Chicago has grown to become one of the largest and most dependable mobile shredding providers in the greater Chicagoland area. The firm specializes in affordable, convenient shredding of documents and electronic media for businesses and individuals alike.
Rodney Quasny, owner of PROSHRED® Chicago, sums up his feelings about the anniversary: “It’s a huge milestone! We’re really proud of what we’ve accomplished here over the last ten years.” In tandem with the anniversary, the company recently purchased a brand-new shredding truck, marking the 12th in its fleet. “All of us have worked so tirelessly to grow this into the business it is today,” expounds Quasny.
Originally servicing only the immediate Chicago metro area, PROSHRED® Chicago now offers mobile shredding services all over Eastern Illinois and even into Indiana. “Shredding on-site really is the best way to ensure the secure destruction of sensitive information,” says Quasny, “which is why we’re constantly working to expand our on-site service area.” Cities serviced by PROSHRED® Chicago’s trucks include Aurora, Waukegan, Rockford, Kankakee, Oak Lawn, and even Gary, Lowell, and Michigan City, IN.
In addition to on-site document and hard drive destruction, the firm also offers drop-off shredding, e-media destruction and product destruction services. “Most of our customers choose to schedule regular shredding service whether that’s monthly or bi-weekly to ensure they’re staying on top of compliance and corporate best-practices,” says Quasny.
PROSHRED® Chicago also provides shredding bins, containers, and cabinets to clients with in-office security needs.
“Over the last 10 years we’ve really developed a reputation in Chicago for dependability and affordability, and that’s important to us,” says Quasny. “We’ll never stop improving; It’s our goal to spend the next ten years maintaining our spot as the top shredding service in town.”
PROSHRED® Chicago is one of over 30 local PROSHRED® locations. Locally owned and operated out of Tinley Park, IL, PROSHRED® Chicago provides cost-effective end-to-end shredding services for professional sectors including medical, legal, and financial, as well as for individuals.
For more information on PROSHRED® Chicago, call 1-708-263-4292 or visit the company’s website at http://www.proshred.com/chicago. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 19, 2017
As of April 2017, PROSHRED® Chicago is excited to celebrate its 10th anniversary in business. Since 2007, PROSHRED® Chicago has grown to become one of the largest and most dependable mobile shredding providers in the greater Chicagoland area. The firm specializes in affordable, convenient shredding of documents and electronic media for businesses and individuals alike.
Rodney Quasny, owner of PROSHRED® Chicago, sums up his feelings about the anniversary: “It’s a huge milestone! We’re really proud of what we’ve accomplished here over the last ten years.” In tandem with the anniversary, the company recently purchased a brand-new shredding truck, marking the 12th in its fleet. “All of us have worked so tirelessly to grow this into the business it is today,” expounds Quasny.
Originally servicing only the immediate Chicago metro area, PROSHRED® Chicago now offers mobile shredding services all over Eastern Illinois and even into Indiana. “Shredding on-site really is the best way to ensure the secure destruction of sensitive information,” says Quasny, “which is why we’re constantly working to expand our on-site service area.” Cities serviced by PROSHRED® Chicago’s trucks include Aurora, Waukegan, Rockford, Kankakee, Oak Lawn, and even Gary, Lowell, and Michigan City, IN.
In addition to on-site document and hard drive destruction, the firm also offers drop-off shredding, e-media destruction and product destruction services. “Most of our customers choose to schedule regular shredding service whether that’s monthly or bi-weekly to ensure they’re staying on top of compliance and corporate best-practices,” says Quasny.
PROSHRED® Chicago also provides shredding bins, containers, and cabinets to clients with in-office security needs.
“Over the last 10 years we’ve really developed a reputation in Chicago for dependability and affordability, and that’s important to us,” says Quasny. “We’ll never stop improving; It’s our goal to spend the next ten years maintaining our spot as the top shredding service in town.”
PROSHRED® Chicago is one of over 30 local PROSHRED® locations. Locally owned and operated out of Tinley Park, IL, PROSHRED® Chicago provides cost-effective end-to-end shredding services for professional sectors including medical, legal, and financial, as well as for individuals.
For more information on PROSHRED® Chicago, call 1-708-263-4292 or visit the company’s website at http://www.proshred.com/chicago. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
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Amazon's CTO takes a shot at Oracle and the 'nightmare' of other legacy databases (AMZN, ORCL, MSFT)
Late last year, Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison set off a war of words with Amazon Web Services — the retailer's insanely profitable $14 billion cloud computing platform — after spending an entire keynote session talking trash.Almost six months later, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels seems unfazed.
At today's Amazon Web Services Summit, Vogels announced that customers have used its Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) to move 23,000 databases from "old world" IT companies like Oracle, Microsoft, or SAP. That's up from 20,000 in March.
While he didn't name names, he chided those legacy companies for what he called "punitive" licensing practices. Those companies make customers predict years in advance for the database capacity they'll need under a long-term sales contract, and may sometimes subject them to intense audits to verify they're not using more than they've paid for.
By Vogels' reckoning, this "nightmare" practice means that 30% of companies tend to buy more licenses than they actually wind up needing, as a hedge against the dreaded licensing audit, "because it's very hard to predict the future."
And so, Vogels says, those "old world" licensing practices are driving more and more customers towards databases like MySQL or Postgres, which are available as free open source for anyone to use. The problem, Vogels says, is that it can be hard to take those database products and scale them up to the size you need.
*The Amazon sales pitch*
Meanwhile, a big part of the sales pitch for Amazon Web Services is that you rent computing resources from Amazon's global data center infrastructure, paying only for what you need. It means that AWS customers like Slack or Airbnb can serve their ever-growing customer base just by flipping a few virtual switches.
So the Amazon Database Migration Service provides an easy way for customers to not only leave those "old world" databases behind, Vogels says, but also to get started with those free databases in a scalable cloud platform that grows to meet your requirements, however large or small, "for a fraction of the price."
Of course, they can also use the migration service to start using Amazon's own home-grown Aurora database (which is not free). Vogels says that Aurora can quickly and easily analyze the data stored in a database, and is also easy for the IT department to manage.
All of this is another sign that Amazon is serious about winning over even the largest companies, getting them started with the Amazon Web Services cloud either a little at a time or all at once.
And Vogels highlights Amazon Web Service's very fast growth, which he says is leading the hypercompetitive cloud computing market, even against titans like Oracle and Microsoft.
"They're actually retreating," Vogels says. "They're contracting their growth instead of expanding it like Amazon is doing."
*SEE ALSO: Amazon cloud boss Andy Jassy fires back at Oracle's Larry Ellison, says stats were 'made up'*
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NOW WATCH: Amazon's new 'Spheres' will create an indoor park for employees Reported by Business Insider 1 day ago.
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Tesla has settled a lawsuit against its former Autopilot director for $100,000 (TSLA)
Tesla is no longer suing its former Autopilot director Sterling Anderson for poaching employees for a new self-driving-car venture.Tesla filed a lawsuit in January claiming Anderson teamed up with Chris Urmson, the former boss of Google's self-driving-car project, to launch a competing company called Aurora Innovation while still serving as Tesla's Autopilot director.
Aurora paid $100,000 to Tesla as part of a settlement, according to Tesla.
Before the suit revealed Urmson and Anderson were working on a self-driving-car venture, Aurora had been operating in stealth mode.
The suit claimed Anderson violated his contract by trying to poach at least a dozen Tesla engineers to work for Aurora while still leading Tesla's Autopilot efforts. It also claimed Anderson downloaded "hundreds of gigabytes of data" with sensitive information that wasn't returned upon his termination.
Anderson wrote in a Medium post Wednesday that Tesla had withdrawn the lawsuit.
"Today, less than three months after filing (and even before we were permitted to file a response) Tesla has withdrawn its claims, without damages, without attorney’s fees, and without any finding of wrongdoing," Anderson wrote in the post.
A Tesla spokesperson confirmed the suit has been dropped:
"Tesla’s lawsuit against Mr. Anderson, Mr. Urmson, and Aurora has been settled. Under the settlement, Mr. Anderson’s contractual obligations to Tesla will remain in place and will also be extended to Aurora, with additional specific protections being added to ensure there are no further violations. The settlement also establishes a process to allow Tesla to recover all of the proprietary information that was taken from the company, and it provides for Aurora’s computer systems to be subject to ongoing audits to monitor for any improper retention or use of Tesla’s property. Finally, $100,000 was paid to Tesla.”
This story is developing...
Join the conversation about this story »
NOW WATCH: Tesla reveals how your self-driving car sees the road Reported by Business Insider 22 hours ago.
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Legislature debates whether businesses must offer retirement-savings program
Republicans and Democrats agree that Americans need to save more money for retirement. But a bill that passed out of the Colorado House of Representatives Wednesday illustrates a deep divide over what the two parties believe the role of business owners and governments should be in making that happen. House Bill 1290, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood and Janet Buckner of Aurora, would mandate the state government to establish a retirement-savings plan that would be used…
Reported by bizjournals 19 hours ago.
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Tesla settles lawsuit over self-driving car secrets
Tesla on Wednesday settled a high-profile lawsuit against one of its former executives and his self-driving car startup, a case that reflected the increasingly fierce competition to perfect autonomous vehicles. Tesla settled its suit against Sterling Anderson, the former head of its Autopilot division, and Aurora Innovation, the startup he co-founded late last year with Chris Urmson, one of the most highly regarded engineers in the field of self-driving cars. “Under the settlement, Mr. Anderson’s contractual obligations to Tesla will remain in place and will also be extended to Aurora, with additional specific protections being added to ensure there are no further violations,” a Tesla spokesman said in an emailed statement. “The settlement also establishes a process to allow Tesla to recover all of the proprietary information that was taken from the company, and it provides for Aurora’s computer systems to be subject to ongoing audits to monitor for any improper retention or use of Tesla’s property,” the spokesman added. “Today, less than three months after filing (and even before we were permitted to file a response), Tesla has withdrawn its claims, without damages, without attorney’s fees, and without any finding of wrongdoing,” he wrote. According to Tesla, Aurora has paid the company $100,000.
Reported by SFGate 19 hours ago.
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1 of 3 new polar bear cubs makes public debut at Ohio zoo
*By The Canadian Press*
POWELL, Ohio — A 5-month-old polar bear cub at The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is the first of three new cubs there to make a public debut.
The central Ohio zoo says the public will have a chance to weigh in on a name for the female cub. She went on display Wednesday with her mother, a bear named Anana.
Anana and her sister, Aurora, each gave birth to twins last November. Anana's other cub died. Both of Aurora's cubs, a still-unnamed male and female, survived.
The Columbus... // Read Full Article Reported by CJME 16 hours ago.
POWELL, Ohio — A 5-month-old polar bear cub at The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is the first of three new cubs there to make a public debut.
The central Ohio zoo says the public will have a chance to weigh in on a name for the female cub. She went on display Wednesday with her mother, a bear named Anana.
Anana and her sister, Aurora, each gave birth to twins last November. Anana's other cub died. Both of Aurora's cubs, a still-unnamed male and female, survived.
The Columbus... // Read Full Article Reported by CJME 16 hours ago.
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Comparing Marijuana Companies: 2 New Kids on the Block
Here's how Aphria Inc. (TSX:APH) and Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSXV:ACB) could make a run at overtaking Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED) as the top dog in the fight to be the #1 cannabis producer in Canada.
Reported by Motley Fool 7 hours ago.
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Police, DEA arrest 9 in Aurora in alleged meth-cocaine ring
Denver-based Drug Enforcement Administration officers, with assistance from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and Aurora police, served warrants at multiple locations Thursday morning targeting an alleged Mexico-based cocaine and methamphetamine organization.
Reported by Denver Post 4 hours ago.
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Magna International Inc. - Notice of Conference Call for First Quarter 2017 Results
AURORA, Ontario, April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG; NYSE: MGA) We will hold our Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at the Hilton Toronto/ Markh...
Reported by FinanzNachrichten.de 2 hours ago.
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Colorado's biggest-ever spec industrial building breaks ground soon in Aurora
Majestic Realty Co. will soon break ground on Colorado's largest-ever single-building speculative industrial development in Aurora, building 701,500 square feet near Interstate 70 and Tower Road. Majestic's new building is expected to break ground in June and to be complete in the first quarter of 2018. It will be built on 36 of the 1,000 acres in the Majestic Commercenter. Majestic in 2015 purchased 530 acres of land adjacent to parcels it already owned and announced plans to develop as much as…
Reported by bizjournals 24 minutes ago.
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Proposed Aurora schools budget cuts not as dire as feared
Aurora Public Schools’ budget situation is not as precarious as previously thought, causing the district to step back from more drastic scenarios such as eliminating full-day kindergarten, cutting sports and clubs, and increasing staff-to-student ratios.
Reported by Denver Post 31 minutes ago.
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Police probe alleged theft of children's underwear from changing rooms at Bangor's Aurora Leisure Complex
Police are investigating a report of children's underwear being stolen from Bangor's Aurora Leisure Complex on Thursday afternoon.
Reported by Belfast Telegraph 12 hours ago.
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Aurora man convicted of beating 84-year-old grandfather to death
A jury convicted a 34-year-old Aurora man for beating his grandfather to death after the older man told him to show respect for his grandmother during an argument over some shrimp she planned to prepare.
Reported by Denver Post 22 hours ago.
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