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PARKER, Colo. — The Parker Police Department has an odd request for parents. It wants them to visit a local smoke shop. The goal isn’t to purchase anything. It’s to learn about what smoke shops sell. “It’s really important, especially for parents, to go into their local smoke shops and just ask the employees about […]

AURORA, Colo. — An Aurora apartment resident tells the FOX31 Problem Solvers a mysterious man is effectively turning her building’s hallway into his own  bathroom. The concerned mother says the man leaves excrement and cigarette butts in the area when he appears at approximately 9 p.m. and doesn’t leave until 7 a.m. The building is […]

DENVER — Vaping has become more popular. It’s seen on the streets of Denver, occasionally at house parties. But one place you don’t expect to see it is inside the State Capitol. However, that was not the case inside a State Committee room on Monday. State Sen. Daniel Kagan discreetly vaped while presiding as a […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – A lung cancer screening CAT scan changed Darlene Livingston’s life.  “I had a mass on my lung,” Livingston said. The former nurse at Swedish Medical Center had smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for most of her life when her doctor suggested she get the lung cancer screening CAT scan that […]

LOS ANGELES — A jury has recommended that Isauro Aguirre, the California man convicted of murdering his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, be sentenced to death. Aguirre, 37, had faced the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of first-degree murder on Nov. 15 in the killing of Gabriel […]

DENVER– Starting Friday, smokers visiting the 16th Street Mall have to hold off on lighting up. The city’s smoking ban is in effect, banning all cigarettes, marijuana and vaping devices within 50 feet of the mall. Denver Police Department officers were giving verbal warnings to people still smoking on Friday afternoon. Many people claimed they […]

DENVER — The city’s smoking ban on the 16th Street Mall goes into effect on Friday. The Breathe Easy ordinance is designed to make the mall a cleaner and healthier place. All smoking is banned, including cigarettes, cigars, marijuana, vaping and electronic devices. It’s illegal to light up within 50 feet of the mall between […]

DENVER — The Denver City Council passed the proposed smoking ban on the 16th Street Mall on Monday night. The ban will start on Dec. 1 and signs will placed on every other block along the mall. The ordinance bans cigarettes, cigars and electronic smoking devices within 50 feet of the pedestrian mall between Broadway […]

LOS ANGELES — A man accused of torturing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death killed the child because he thought the boy was gay, a Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor said during opening statements Monday. Isauro Aguirre’s defense attorney said his client admits to causing the injuries on Gabriel Fernandez’s body, but that it […]

DENVER — The push to ban smoking on the 16th Street Mall moves a step closer to reality on Wednesday when the measure will be heard by a committee of the Denver City Council. The proposal is igniting a lot of emotion from both sides of the issue. The so-called breathe easy ordinance would ban […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — A couple moving a gas grill in an SUV were injured on Sunday when one of them lit a cigarette and an explosion happened. Police in Orlando, Florida, released photos that showed extensive damage to the Kia Sorento with the roof blown out and the air bags deployed. The windshield was on […]

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — Bowling is a lot like life. Well, not really, but Herb Rebele has bowled a lot in his life. Thursday was his day of days: His 100th birthday. One-hundred years ago, the world was embroiled in World War I while little baby Herb was growing up on his family’s farm in […]