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DENVER -- An order by the federal judge who presided over the trial of Timothy McVeigh will allow the Oklahoma City bomber's attorney to turn over personal items to McVeigh's family. U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch's order issued Wednesday outlined the disposal process for the more than 1,000 exhibits in the trials. The order specifies that exhibits introduced as evidence by McVeigh's lawyers should go to Tulsa attorney Rob Nigh Jr. Exhibits used as prosecution evidence will be turned over to federal prosecutors. Nigh represented McVeigh for about five years until McVeigh was executed June 11, 2001, for bombing the...

Oh, man, Denver can't win for losing. First the Avs are knocked out of the NHL playoffs by some team whose name we forget but whose motto, if Avs fans are to be believed, rhymes with "bed springs buck." Then the drought turns our mountain playgrounds into tinderboxes. And now a mean old federal judge in Virginia refuses to move the trial of accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui to Denver. Well, on second thought, one out of three ain't bad. We confess to having been less than thrilled when Moussaoui, the accused 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 atrocities, asked to...