Hickenlooper Signs Law Enforcement Dog Training Law

Governor Hickenlooper signed a bill on Monday, which requires new training for law enforcement personnel.

The new bill requires all Colorado law enforcement officers to be trained in how to deal with dogs.

Colorado has seen several police shootings of dogs, over the past year, most of which likely could have been avoided.

Law enforcement agencies were sought out during the creation of the bill.

It does allow officers leeway if they believe that they or others are in danger.

Colorado Gas Leak Sends 31 Junior Highers to the Hospital

Thirty-one students ended up being sent to the hospital after a gas leak at Ignacio Junior High School, in Colorado.

None of their symptoms were serious, they all suffered from headaches, nausea, and vomiting and were sent to the hospital as a precaution.

Officials say that a backed up collection tank caused the gas.

According to the fire department, there was no risk of an explosion as the fumes weren't flammable, just nauseating.

The collection tank had been installed in 1998, and had not been cleaned since then.

Fumes only affected one science classroom, which the school plans to have reopened later this week, after the collection tank is emptied.

US Justice Department Seizes AP Phone Records

According to the Associated Press, the US Justice Department seized some of their phone records, from April and May of 2012.


Records for over twenty phone lines were taken, including multiple reporters and the press agency's switchboard.

The AP called the seizure a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" of freedom of the press.

AP Chief Executive Gary Pruitt said, "There can be no possible justification for such an overboard collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters".

In a press release, the US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia said that they had been extremely "careful and deliberative" when taking the records.

Minnesota Senate Approves Same Sex Marriage

Minnesota's state senate approved same sex marriage on Tuesday.

The bill passed with a vote of thirty-seven to thirty.

Last week it passed the house.

Governor Mark Dayton has already said he will sign it, on Tuesday afternoon.

The law will go into effect in August.

It's passage makes Minnesota the twelfth state to legalize same sex marriage.

Abortion Doctor Gosnell Guilty of Murder

A jury trying Doctor Kevin Gosnell found him guilty on three counts of first degree murder, on Monday.

Doctor Gosnell has been on trial for four counts of first degree murder and one count of third degree murder.

Gosnell ran an abortion clinic and was known to do late term abortions.

He had been accused of doing post birth abortions, which is where the first degree murder charges came in.

Originally, there had been seven counts of first degree murder, but the judge threw them out due to lack of evidence.

The third degree count came over a woman who died from complications after she had an abortion performed by him.

Eight former employees pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified against Gosnell.