Jesse Bedayn

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Stickers for voters sit in a roll on a ballot box at a voting drop-off location Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Washington Park in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado accidentally put its voting system passwords online for months but state insists election is still secure

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

A police officer moves a barrier for an emergency vehicle Thursday.

Deadly elevator malfunction traps tourists in historic Colorado mine—cause remains a mystery

By Matthew Brown, Jesse Bedayn, and others

The gated micro community known as “The Melody” is shown Friday, April 12, 2024, in Atlanta. The Melody is a housing complex made from shipping containers and is intended to help house people from Atlanta’s homeless population. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

U.S. cities are using shipping containers to build gated micro-communities like Atlanta’s ‘The Melody’ for homeless people

By R.J. Rico, Jesse Bedayn, and others

FILE – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in the House of Representatives chamber in the State Capitol, Jan. 17, 2023, in Denver. State lawmakers’ first attempts at curtailing discrimination in artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role American’s lives are floundering across the country. Only Colorado’s bill has been signed by the governor Polis. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado becomes first state to try to regulate AI’s hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

Jeff Jarvis

First state attempts to regulate AI have mile-wide self-reporting loopholes: ‘It’s already hard when you have these huge companies with billions of dollars’

By Jesse Bedayn, Susan Haigh, and others

FILE – A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. The couple who owned the Colorado funeral home — where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year — have been indicted on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government, according to court documents unsealed Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found are now being charged with misspending $900,000 in COVID relief funds

By Jesse Bedayn, Colleen Slevin, and others

A timber wolf, roams in its enclosure at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center (CWWC) in Divide, Colorado on March 28, 2023. – CWWCs 35 acre property is home to 18 wolves, and offers daily tours. In 2020, Colorado voters passed Proposition 114, which required Colorado Parks and Wildlife to reintroduce gray wolves to designated lands on the western side of the Continental Divide no later than December 31, 2023. Wolves that have wandered into Colorado from the neighboring state of Wyoming have put ranchers on edge that their livestock may become prey, as well as presented challenges to the outcome of the reintroduction program. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP) (Photo by JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images)

Investigation finds wolf killed a calf in Colorado, potentially reigniting a ‘ballot biology’ political debate

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

FILE – The ChatGPT app is seen on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence. As AI has quietly spread through everyday life, filtering job resumes, rental apartment and home loan applications, studies and lawsuits have found they can discriminate based on race, gender or more. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

AI is already screening job resumes and rental apartment applications and even determining medical care with almost no oversight

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

Ann Urbanovitch

Personal Finance

Meet the low-income renters who have just $300 left over to spend every month: ‘I don’t know what else to cut back on, probably less groceries’

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

wolf pup

The Colorado culture wars are getting wild, as officials release 5 gray wolves into the Rocky Mountains in Democrat-backed program

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

Pallbearers carrying a wooden casket

Funeral home that offered “green” burials let 189 bodies pile up and lied about it, say authorities who responded to complaints of “abhorrent” smell

By Jesse Bedayn, Matthew Brown, and others

FILE – Jack Phillips, who’s case was heard by the Supreme Court several years ago after he objected to designing a wedding cake for a gay couple, speaks to supporters outside the Supreme Court, Dec. 5, 2022, in Washington. Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, that it will hear the case of Phillips, a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Colorado’s top court will hear case against Christian baker who refused to make a gender transition-themed cake

By Colleen Slevin, Jesse Bedayn, and others

Lauren Boebert

Lauren Boebert was ejected from the ‘Beetlejuice’ musical in Denver and it’s not clear why. She may have been vaping, singing and using her phone

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press

OAKLAND, CA – MAY 30: A gardener tends to a passionflower containing psychedelic properties in a private garden in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, May 30, 2019. State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said Tuesday that he plans to introduce a bill when the Legislature returns decriminalizing possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms and other psychedelics, part of his broader drug policy agenda that also includes measures to legalize safe-injection sites and end mandatory minimum sentences for some drug crimes. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Biden is ‘very open-minded’ about psychedelics as medicine but the world may not be, says his brother who has battled addiction

By Aamer Madhani, Jesse Bedayn, and others

Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers opens up on ‘radically life-changing’ psychedelics experience with teammates: ‘I found a deeper self love’

By Jesse Bedayn and The Associated Press