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Denver Post News

• Patrick Roy, new coach for Avalanche, returns to Colorado to turn around team May 24, 2013
  When the Avalanche needed a final piece for its roster in 1995 to become a championship club, it looked toward Quebec at Patrick Jacques Roy. Eighteen years later, the Avs look to Roy to lead them back to glory, this time as their coach and vice president of hockey operations.
• Dean Foods completes spinoff of WhiteWave Foods May 24, 2013
  WhiteWave Foods, the Broomfield-based maker of Horizon Organic and Silk Soymilk, is once again a standalone company. WhiteWave on Thursday completed its previously announced spinoff from Dean Foods Co., the Dallas-based dairy giant that had acquired the locally rooted firm more than 10 years ago.
• CU-Boulder seeks drone test site in Colorado May 24, 2013
  A state application organized by the University of Colorado Boulder has been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of one of six unmanned aircraft systems test slated to be established across the United States.
• At graduation, girls' blooming friendship takes center stage May 24, 2013
  The plan calls for Kati Pietrafeso to take a seat with her Overland High School graduating class in a chair at the end of a row. Then, when it's time for her best friend, Elena Nevel, to walk across the stage Friday and receive her diploma, Kati can quickly rise and join her.
• Death penalty debate focuses on Colorado governor's view of flawed system May 24, 2013
  As an obviously distraught Gov. John Hickenlooper explained his decision to spare the life of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap, he called the state's death-penalty system imperfect and flawed.
• Pentecostal pastor says Denver jail is blocking immersion baptisms May 24, 2013
  Pentecostal Pastor Maurice Gordon says he has baptized Denver County Jail inmates by total immersion in his own bathtub-sized fiberglass tank every few weeks for 26 years, but it hasn't been allowed for a couple of months.