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Leave it to Deion Sanders to come up with an idea for the College Football Playoff that nobody has really mentioned yet: Pay the players for making the tournament, and pay them more when their teams win.

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The U.S. Education Department says Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity. The finding announced Thursday followed an unprecedented probe of Denver's East High School.

Some colleges are allowing pets in dorms to help students feel more at home. Eckerd College in Florida lets students bring pets like dogs and cats after their first semester. This policy helps reduce stress and build connections. Other schools, like MIT and the University of Northern Colorado, have similar rules with some restrictions.

During the special session, the legislature passed a bill ceding the responsibility of cutting the budget to the governor’s office.

The Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed is asking for volunteers to help gather pine cones for wildfire restoration.

Golden-based Lunar Outpost is competing to be NASA’s human transportation system on the moon later this decade. Its rovers have been kicking up the dust on a rural testing ground in Huerfano County for two years. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Tamara Chuang and then read the entire story at the link below.

One Colorado city's drinking water got the highest score from judges, who said it tasted smooth and light.

The city’s new strategy prioritizes people with long histories of homelessness who intend to stay in Boulder, as housing vouchers dwindle and funding falls short.

Democrats at the Capitol also pushed back the start date of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law, shored up subsidies on health insurance and tweaked a pair of measures on the November ballot.