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Elimination of Colorado tax breaks gets initial approval in state Senate\n - The Colorado Senate gave initial approval to a package of bills removing tax breaks on candy, soda, software, junk mail and\n other items Monday night.

Polis doles out plenty to fellow lawmakers, gains clout\n - During his first year in Congress, Boulder\'s Jared Polis showed he could raise money like a House veteran, writing checks\n for fellow freshmen representatives at a rate that rivals the fundraising clout of even Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Nearly one in three Colo. graduates needs remedial courses in college, study finds\n - About one in three first-year college students needs remedial help in at least one core subject, according to an annual report\n by the Colorado Commission for Higher Education.

Corrections\n - The Denver Post will correct all errors occurring in its news columns. If you find a problem with a story — an error\n of fact or a point requiring clarification — please call the city desk, 303-954-1201.

Wreckage from midair collision to be laid out in hangar\n - Investigators will sift through the wreckage of two small planes at a hangar in Greeley as they search for clues to the cause\n of a midair collision that killed three.

Greene: Denver Museum of Nature & Science getting news digs for old stuff\n - New digs are planned for the skeletons in Denver\'s closet. Thousands of bones — and hundreds of thousands of other specimens\n and artifacts — for decades have sat crammed into 49 storage spaces at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.\n

Griego: Street kid didn\'t wander alone\n - The caravan winds through the snow-blanketed cemetery in a small, hushed procession. Snow falls in tiny, sporadic flakes.\n The weather seems appropriate, the father remarked earlier. He would be burying his daughter in a few hours. \"Snow to match\n the storm inside us.\"

Roll Call, 2/9/10\n - Sen. Evie Hudak has unwittingly become a walking reminder of the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl victory.

Ritter moves forward with deal that would split Pinnacol from state control\n - Gov. Bill Ritter\'s office is moving forward with a deal that would cut Pinnacol Assurance free from almost all state control\n in exchange for a payment that could mean hundreds of millions of dollars to help balance the budget.

Snow traps Indiana driver for days in Rio Grande National Forest\n - An Indiana man survived three days in his SUV stuck in deep snow in the Rio Grande National Forest before he managed to make\n his way to a road Sunday morning to get help.

Charlie Sheen\'s wife asks for dismissal of assault charges\n - Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed them to see each other\n following a Christmas Day domestic-violence dispute in which the actor allegedly pinned his spouse on a bed with a knife to\n her throat.

Wolves may have found home on Colo. ranch\n - Biologists working with the owners of a western Colorado ranch are trying to determine whether wolves have settled there.\n

Denver medical pot dispensaries apply for licenses\n - DENVER—Medical marijuana dispensary owners lined up before 7:30 a.m. Monday to apply for operating licenses.

Colorado to get $30 million in federal money to clear beetle-killed forests\n - Colorado will get a $30 million chunk of federal money to make 3 million acres of beetle-killed forest safer.

Sign-up starts for 25th Ride the Rockies\n - Registration opens today for the 25th Ride the Rockies tour, a 532-mile, week-long noncompetitive bicycle trek through Colorado.\n

Builder Primack left footprint in Denver area\n - Samuel Primack, part of the Perl-Mack construction team that built more than 20,000 residences in the metro area, died Feb.\n 1 at his Aurora home. He was 84 and had been diagnosed with cancer shortly before his death.

Bonnie Brae neighbors get into alley crafts\n - After Wendy Lesko was done decorating her backyard with handcrafted mosaics, she decided to hang her latest piece —\n an elegant giraffe in a desert oasis — in the alley behind her Bonnie Brae house.

Man survives 3 days in snowbound SUV\n - An Indiana man survived three days in his SUV that was stuck in deep snow in the Rio Grande National Forest before he managed\n to make his way to a road Sunday morning and get help.

Attorney: Brooke Sheen wants case dismissed\n - ASPEN, Colo.—Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed\n them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day

Biologists check report of wolf pack in Colorado\n - DENVER—Biologists working with the owners of a western Colorado ranch are trying to determine if wolves have settled\n there.