A 34-year-old woman told officers she was hit with a baseball bat in a parking lot outside her apartment near 34th Street and O’Neal Parkway at 10:15 p.m. Tuesday.

If you're reading this editorial then you're probably what is known as a townie. That is to say you live here, in Boulder, all the time. You don't necessarily come and go with the changing semesters and holidays. You are not a student.

As gas prices continue to rise, Colorado has seen a renewed effort to open our state's pristine wilderness to energy development from corporate interests. Increasing our oil and gas drilling in the state is merely a band-aid for the much graver, more long-term issue of our dependence on non-renewable energy resources. What is more, the wilderness, the defining characteristic of our great state, stands only to lose from increased development. Over the next 6 years, it's expected that our active oil and gas wells will double from 30,000 to 60,000, opening some of our most treasured places like the Roan Plateau, the Vermillion Basin, and Browns Canyon to the plunderings of corporate America.

This May, Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding; Palestinians also commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) they suffered as a result of the fighting from 1947-1949.

The latest TV listings, sports transactions and today's place in sports history.

University of Colorado forward Aija Putnina will forgo her final two years of collegiate eligibility in order to play basketball professionally in Europe, head coach Kathy McConnell-Miller announced Thursday.

The University of Colorado will host the Big 12 Track & Field Championships this weekend at Potts Field. It's the first time CU has hosted the event, one that will draw hundreds of athletes and thousands of fans into Boulder, and one that will help shed some much deserved light on one of the most successful track & field programs around.

I f you like your music to be laid-back and laced with folk and roots elements, then you're going to want to check out this week's shows featuring Mason Jennings and Jakob Dylan. Here's the interesting connection - several of Jennings' Bob Dylan cover songs (as in Jakob's dad) were used in the "I'm Not There" movie soundtrack.

T he members of Canada's Tokyo Police Club were happy just making music in their basement. The indie rockers didn't even learn how to play musical instruments until their last year of high school, but the group's venture is paying off -- Tokyo Police Club is now one of the hottest bands on MTV and the Internet.

Marla Schultz is performing Friday at 8 and 10 p.m., Saturday 6:30, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Both nights opening for Harland Williams. See her headline on Sunday at 8 p.m.

On Thursday, the Boulder Economic Council (BEC), with sponsorship assistance from CU and a host of other entities, put together a summit that delved into the nature of Boulder’s hybrid economy, and its future.

Yesterday, an event sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) brought citizens together to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the mass exodus of Palestinians from the newly-recognized independent state of Israel in 1948.

The Institute for Intentionally Sustainable Neighborhoods (IISN) will host the Futures Festival for Neighborhood Sustainability on Saturday at 15th Street and Yaupon Avenue from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry -- a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony.

Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000.

Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack" Thursday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists -- early salvos in a general election campaign that's already blazing even as the Democratic front-runner tries to sew up his party's nomination.

Myanmar's junta warned Thursday it will punish anyone found hoarding or trading foreign aid meant for cyclone survivors, but relief groups said they had seen no evidence of people selling or stockpiling donated goods.

SECURITY BREACH AT DIA

Indian pueblos, Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields and trails used by Lewis and Clark are in jeopardy because the Forest Service lacks the means to protect them, a prominent preservation group said Thursday.