Press Release

DENVER -- Cell phone users can text the word GIFT to 90999 from now through December 31 to make a $25 donation to the American Red Cross.

Donations will support the work of the Red Cross, including disaster response, collecting lifesaving blood, teaching skills that can save a life, or assisting military members and their families.

DENVER (AP) - Colorado Republican state lawmakers are trying to come up with legislation next year to deal with illegal immigration.

The Republican Study Committee of Colorado, a coalition of GOP state lawmakers which has no legal authority in the Legislature, is holding a summit at the Capitol on Monday.

DENVER -- A hundred dogs will be transported from commercial breeding
operations in the Midwest to animal welfare groups in
Colorado on Sunday to be placed for adoption.

Thirty of the canines will arrive at the Dumb Friends League.

Volunteers of the Colorado Springs-based National Mill Dog Rescue drove
three vans to pick up these dogs from puppy mills in Missouri and Kansas.

Some of the dog breeds rescued include Pomeranians, Yorkshire terriers, Poodles,
Dachshunds, Maltese and King Charles Cavalier Spaniels.

The National Mill Dog Rescue will take in 40 puppy mill dogs and
the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region will receive 25 of the canines.

Following Missouri voter approval of Proposition B on Nov. 2, an increasing
number of breeders in that state have contacted the National Mill Dog Rescue
to take in more adult breeding dogs in preparation of regulation changes,
pending its passage into law.