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Today's Front Page News

Prominent US-born al-Qaida cleric killed in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen—Yemen's Defense Ministry says the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed.  

• Colorado court opens electronic images of voted ballots
• Storm of violence sullies Weld kin
• Smaller beer brewers taste growing success
• Ken Salazar aims to broker compromises on conservation vs. drilling
• Tweet moods follow circadian rhythms, study shows

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Today's Local Politics

Ken Salazar aims to broker compromises on conservation vs. drilling
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar swooped through Western hot spots this week trying to forge compromises as a century-old struggle intensifies over protecting pristine public lands versus leaving them open to development.  

• Aron Ralston among those making fundraising pitches for Colo. candidates
• Colorado GOP stalls application for federal grant to set up health insurance exchange
• Mailer assailed for linking Denver paid-sick-days initiative to listeria outbreak
• Colorado Rep. Summers calls newest House district map lopsided

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Today's Business

Smaller beer brewers taste growing success
As 466 brewers show off their wares this weekend at the nation's biggest beer festival, they don't need an industry stat sheet to know they're onto something good.  

• Banks to charge customers a debit-card fee
• Papa John's franchisee bankruptcy stalls paychecks at restaurants in Colorado, Minnesota
• Vacation rental website claims Colorado towns' tax hunt is "illegal"
• Parker: Larimer Square lawsuit over flooding a "fluid situation"
• Visitors back and spending up in Colorado's high country

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Today's Sports Headlines

Broncos WR Brandon Lloyd stays patient despite lack of passes thrown his way
As the Broncos put together a 16-play, 80-yard, eight-minute touchdown drive against the Tennessee Titans last week, Pro Bowl wide receiver Brandon Lloyd wasn't the target of a single play.  

• MLB Playoffs: Red-hot Rangers, Rays square off in division series
• MLB Playoffs: Collapse puzzles Red Sox brass
• Brown's four TDs spark Mustangs' rout
• Games of the week: Neuheisel on the (late) clock
• Packers' Rodgers one tough QB for defenses to face

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Today's Entertainment

Movie review: Maryam Keshavarz's "Circumstance" follows Iranian teens though underground life in Tehran
In Iran, they like to watch. Or so we gather from the constant presence of surveillance cameras in "Circumstance," writer-director Maryam Keshavarz's sumptuous debut about Shireen and Atafeh, best friends coming of age and burgeoning desire in Iran's capital city, Tehran.  

• Movie review: "50/50" gets cancer quandary half right
• Husted: Denver chefs whip up memorable wedding in Santa Barbara
• Halloween Calendar
• Charmed Gavin Rossdale happily brings back Bush
• Hyperactive, shameless Kathy Griffin doesn't take her stand-up lying down

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Today's Style

Smartphone apps can help find perfect date or next romance
Could love be just around the corner? A new era of GPS-enabled smartphone apps says that next great romance might be even closer, even sitting in the same coffee shop where you just ordered your favorite mocha.  

• Cheesman Park mailboxes in Denver deliver fairy-tale "romance"

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Today's Opinion

Krauthammer: Israel, Palestine and the formula of land for peace
While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy.  

• Dionne: Buffeted by hate
• Harsanyi: GOP field is a gift for Obama
• Writers on the Range: Wilderness and military can coexist
• Editorial: Focus on worst alien criminals
• Duncan: The president's plan for the economy and education