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Local recommends consumers rescind REC subscriptions
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CSU and Fort Collins officials received a press release from a self-described concerned citizen late last week letting them know of an initiative to get customers of the community's touted renewable energy credit market to rescind their patronage. Eric Sutherland, a community critic of the REC market -- which he says is rife with opacity and confusing policy -- went to a Fort Collins Electric Board meeting Wednesday to announce his initiative to board members.
No new information in campus murder
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Campus police have not released any new information on an investigation of a murder that left Matt Quitmeyer dead in the Summit Hall parking lot Friday night. Quitmeyer was a CSU alumnus. The CSUPD received a call reporting the body at 11:08 p.m. Friday, Police Chief Dexter Yarbrough told reporters at the press conference.
Allen remembered at service, Price charged with vehicular homicide
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Nearly 300 people gathered Friday afternoon, at the CSU Oval, to honor and remember avid cyclist and CSU faculty member Rebecca Allen who died July 22 when she was hit by a car while riding her bike. Allen was wearing her helmet when she got hit. The motorist, Daniel Price, is being charged with vehicular homicide.
Exploring Conference brings explosives and helicopters to CSU [AUDIO SLIDESHOW]
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Excitement spread through the crowd as the time grew closer to detonation. Hundreds of teens lined the hills of CSU's West Lawn waiting for the much-anticipated display of heavy explosives -- TNT and dynamite -- to blast off a few hundred feet in front of them.
Student still in critical condition after lightning strike
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A student who was struck by lightning Thursday is still in critical condition at the Poudre Valley Hospital. Just three days after two CSU employees on bicycles were hit by a motorist, lightning struck two CSU graduate students on campus, killing one of them and putting the other in intensive care at Poudre Valley Hospital.
Quitmeyer case a possible suicide
New information leads investigators to rule out murder
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The investigation into the death of Matt Quitmeyer has changed course from a suspected homicide to a possible suicide. At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, CSU Chief of Police Dexter Yarbrough announced at a press conference that information about Quitmeyer's medical history and a search of his apartment is leading detectives to believe the fatal injury was a "possible self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Researchers operate one-of-a-kind technology
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The large white bubble of a dome is a strange sight in the stretches of farmland and county roads north of Greeley. Towering over five stories high, the dome of one of the most advanced weather research systems in the world may appear to a passersby as something akin to a giant igloo.
