Colorado

Tap water being consumed in 37 small Colorado communities has been found to have violated state health standards, state records show. State records show the tap water supply, which is used by 30,000 Colorado residents, had levels of naturally occurring uranium and radium radionuclides higher than current standards, The Denver Post reported Sunday.

Forty-five minutes after the first needle was plunged into a Coloradan's arm Saturday, more than 6,000 people statewide had received flu shots in a drill to prepare for a large- scale flu outbreak. The exercise by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment targeted 26,000 people throughout the state at 28 sites. Turnout was lower than expected and only about 10,000 people received the shots in the scheduled two hours-plus, said Katherine Davis, spokeswoman for the health department.

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado has an elaborate plan to ensure state government will function in natural disaster or terror attack. There's just one problem -- someone forgot to tell the lawmakers. The clandestine blueprint, kept in a notebook carried by a state patrol trooper at the Capitol, includes secret locations to house legislative leaders and a chain of command if the governor and lieutenant governor were incapacitated.