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News Minute: Here is the latest Colorado news from The Associated Press

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DENVER (AP) - A majority of Colorado's elected sheriffs are trying to end new gun restrictions with a federal lawsuit against the state. The laws that limit the size of ammunition magazines and expand background checks to private and online firearm sales. The lawsuit was filed Friday.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A sergeant at Fort Carson has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for a fatal nightclub shooting. Sgt. Christopher Mountjoy was sentenced in the shooting death of an unarmed man outside the Sin City Disciples motorcycle club in Colorado Springs in 2012.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - A Pueblo man has been sentenced to 68 years in prison after pleading guilty to causing a crash that killed three teenage girls. KKTV reports prosecutors say Gilbert Sanchez was drunk when his car crashed into the teens as they were driving home from a church event.

DENVER (AP) - A fire that started in a construction vehicle yesterday damaged an overhanging awning on Denver's historic Union Station. Construction workers were evacuated from the station, which was built in 1881 and is being renovated as a hotel.

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