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A plan to use only paper ballots in Colorado in this November's election, which was announced with bipartisan hoopla in January to replace the state's troubled electronic voting machine system, died quietly in a state legislature committee room on Thursday. Opponents of the plan said it was no longer needed, because what was broken then is now fixed. But supporters said that questions of reliability and security of the electronic voting and vote-counting machines remained unresolved, and could yet resurface before November. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The dates and times of a potentially glorious Knicks season were unveiled Tuesday, in vivid detail. The asterisks were implied. The Knicks will open the 2011-12 schedule at home against the Miami Heat on Nov. 2 -- unless they do not. Carmelo Anthony will make his anticipated return to Denver on Nov. 16 -- or perhaps not. And the Knicks will play 29 nationally televised games -- their most in at least 11 seasons -- if only there is a season to play. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

COLORADO SPRINGS -- When it hit the streets here last week, the latest issue of ReLeaf, a pullout supplement to The Colorado Springs Independent devoted to medical marijuana, landed with a satisfying thud. Forty-eight pages in all, it was stuffed with advertisements for businesses with names like Mile High Mike's, Happy Buddah and the Healthy Connections (which enticed potential customers with promises of ''naughty nurses'' to tend to patients' needs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the legal charges against basketball player Kobe Bryant in Colorado. Indifference of Bryant to the woman's plea to stop the sexual advances; Content of the police inquiry of the federal lawsuit.

Reports on the newspapers in Denver, Colorado that posted circulation increases during the second half of 1999. Factor that contributed to the gains; Daily circulation at `The Chicago Tribune'; Five largest dailies in the united States that showed gains in daily circulation.

Colorado shoppers will be able to keep using plastic grocery bags after lawmakers balked at what would have been the nation's first statewide ban on the sacks. A State Senate bill banning the use of plastic bags by large retailers by 2012 was defeated Tuesday after a handful of Democrats joined with Republicans in voting against it. Critics argued that the ban would lead to increased use of paper bags, which they argued take more energy to produce and take up more room in landfills. Several states are considering bans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that the move of the International Bible Society to insert a copy of the New Testament in a Sunday issue of "The Colorado Springs Gazette" resulted to a debate whether the act was free speech or an endorsement of a particular religion. Support of the society from churches, businesses, individuals and organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Reactions of some Jews and Muslims to getting the New Testament with their Sunday paper.

Reports that more confidential material from the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, including the last name of the woman who had accused Bryant of rape, was accidentally released to the public by the court on July 28, 2004, through the Colorado State Judicial Branch Web site. Third instance of supposedly secret sealed papers slipping through the safeguards; Deep tension that has emerged within the case about the flow of information; Delicate balance that the court has tried to strike between the rights to privacy and the rights of a free press.

AURORA, Colo. -- James E. Holmes, the Colorado man accused of gunning down 12 people at an Aurora movie theater last week, was being treated by a psychiatrist whose research interests include psychotherapy and the neurobiology of schizophrenia, according to court papers filed by Mr. Holmes's lawyers on Thursday, the first documented glimpse into his mental health condition. Mr. Holmes, who was in the process of withdrawing from a graduate program at the University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus, was being treated by Dr. Lynne Fenton, medical director of the school's student mental health services, the documents said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ON paper it resembles a subplot from David Foster Wallace's deliriously satiric novel ''Infinite Jest'': a billionaire heiress builds a spectacular art museum on family property somewhere in the Deep South and gives it the suspiciously New-Agey name Crystal Bridges. But this is nonfiction. On Nov. 11 Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, will unveil the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the small city of Bentonville, Ark. Ms. Walton will always be remembered by New York's cultural custodians for absconding six years ago with Asher B. Durand's ''Kindred Spirits,'' a key piece of Hudson River School painting. (The New York Public Library let it go for about $35 million.) But Ms. Walton, 61, is no harebrained carpetbagger. A serious, lifelong art collector, she intends to make Crystal Bridges a major comprehensive repository of American art from Colonial to contemporary. In 2005 she hired the distinguished art historian and former National Gallery of Art curator John Wilmerding to advise on acquisitions and went on a buying spree that netted a George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart; Norman Rockwell's ''Rosie the Riveter'' (1943); Jasper Johns's ''Alphabets'' (1960-62); and a 2009 portrait of Bill Clinton, a friend of Ms. Walton's, by Chuck Close. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation. is examining whether Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was responsible for lacing several bottles of Tylenol with cyanide in 1982, bringing together two of the highest-profile domestic crimes of the late 20th century. Mr. Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., recently filed court papers disclosing that the F.B.I.'s Chicago office was looking into whether he could be linked to the unsolved killings of seven people who swallowed the poisoned medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Last summer in a quiet suburb of Vail, Colo., Kent Logan showed off his private gallery to a group of visitors. Around the building were paintings by Andy Warhol and sculpture by Jeff Koons, along with flat files filled with hundreds of precious drawings and works on paper. Mr. Logan said he owned about 1,000 works of art and then politely announced that he had promised much of it to museums. Now Mr. Logan is sending his art on the road, with exhibitions like ''Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art From the Logan Collection'' at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. It comes on the heels of an exhibition of works from his collection at the Denver Art Museum, a beneficiary of his largess, along with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the problems of voting in Colorado. Problems were found in the voting machines across the state recently, which is forcing the legislature to find a solution for the forthcoming elections in 2008. Leaders in the Democratic Party have suggested to have the all mail-in voting. Mike Coffman, secretary of state, favors allowing paper ballots and electronic machines. He said that the technical issues could be addressed in time for the elections.

An attractive woman dances alone, arching her spine and stretching her limbs in expansive yearning. Suddenly a man's hand, from behind, touches her shoulder, her spine, her arm. We know he answers her longing. Yet we also know she's alone. The man is her imagination. Or is he ours? This scene occurs in ''The Rain,'' a 2007 film directed and choreographed by Pontus Lidberg of Sweden that was shown at the New Museum on Friday and Saturday as part of a Dance on Camera presentation of new shorts. (Though Mr. Lidberg's work may not be known in New York, he worked in August with Christopher Wheeldon and his Morphoses company in Vail, Colo.) Memorably ''The Rain'' illustrates what filmed dance can say that staged dance cannot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]