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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The shocking fentanyl overdose deaths of five young people in a Commerce City apartment last weekend marked an ugly milestone for Colorado: It was the country’s largest single fentanyl overdose event the Drug Enforcement Administration believes it has seen in one place at one time.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Adams County coroner's office on Tuesday identified the five people who died Sunday in a Commerce City apartment of suspected fentanyl overdoses.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — State legislators have introduced a bill that, if passed, would prohibit employers from firing or refusing to hire an employee based on the use of medical or recreational marijuana.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Americans are more likely to die before they turn 25 than their peers in other wealthy nations, a report co-authored by a University of Colorado-Boulder researcher found, with people of color at even higher risk of dying young.