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By Keith Coffman DENVER, May 17 (Reuters) - A group of Colorado county sheriffs, angry over two new state gun control laws passed in the wake of last year's mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado, filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block...

WASHINGTON — It sounds like a bad joke from an old comedy routine. Question: How do you take on Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination? Answer: Very carefully. Clinton is almost universally popular among Democrats as...

Maine Gov. Paul LePage's administration is actively courting gunmakers and ammunition manufacturers to relocate to that state, focusing on companies that have threatened to leave states that have passed new gun control measures. In an op-ed column for...

A man linked to a white supremacist gang has been apprehended in Colorado and will be questioned in the shooting death of the state’s prisons chief, officials said Friday. James Lohr, 47, was taken into custody in Colorado Springs on Friday and...

The House of Delegates voted Wednesday to give Maryland one of the toughest gun laws in the nation, passing a bill that would ban the sale of assault-type weapons, set a 10-bullet limit on magazines and require fingerprints and a license to buy a handgun....

Even as momentum for new gun legislation wanes in Washington, lawmakers across the country are fashioning their own response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, resulting in a patchwork that tightens restrictions in some places and eases them...

From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...

President Obama was in Colorado on Wednesday, hoping to use the recent enactment of gun-control legislation there as a way to spur support for his own package of proposals. But a politically purple state such as Colorado can also offer ammunition for...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Prosecutors are expected to announce Monday whether they will seek the death penalty in the Aurora movie theater massacre — a decision that could affect not only the defendant, James E. Holmes, but also capital punishment...

DENVER (AP) — As lawmakers across the country debate arming teachers and administrators to prevent another deadly school shooting, one Colorado school district has voted to let its superintendent and a high school principal carry concealed semi-...

Events surrounding Evan Spencer Ebel's death after a gun battle on a Texas highway last week represent a series of unconnected dots for investigators. Ebel, 28, has been formally identified as a suspect in the doorstep slaying of Tom Clements, who had...

Tom Clements was memorialized as a man of vision as top state officials, family members and friends said farewell on Monday to the Colorado prisons chief slain last week. “He was a great man, a great leader, a voice of reason and wisdom,”...