Colorados

Boston bomber sues Colorado’s ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ prison for $250,000

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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is suing the federal government for $250,000 over his treatment at the supermax prison in Colorado dubbed the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ – because officials took away his baseball cap. In his eight-page, handwritten lawsuit that was filed in federal court on Monday, the convicted terrorist decries the confiscation of … Read more

NASA satellite image shows thick smoke and a large burn scar from Colorado’s East Troublesome Fire

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A small fire ignited in central Colorado on October 12 that burned through more than 190,000 acres in just 10 days – and NASA has captured the violent scene from space. The Operational Land Image (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite snapped an image from 438 miles above the blaze that is deemed the state’s … Read more