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shootings and a Western heritage where gun ownership is a daily part of life for many.
• Friday's action came with the state viewed as a bellwether of how far politically moderate states are willing to go with new gun laws in the wake of mass shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. It's also playing out in a state that was the scene of one of the nation's most high-profile school massacres -- the 1999 Columbine High School shootings.
• Already the White House has weighed in, with Vice President Joe Biden phoning four lawmakers while on a recent ski vacation here to nudge the Democrats during their first major gun debate last month.
• "The eyes of the entire nation are upon us. What we do here today matters to everybody," Republican Sen. Greg Brophy said Friday. Brophy represents a rural district in Colorado's eastern plains.
• Senate Democrats advanced Colorado's strictest gun measures in years after a 12-hour debate -- but not every proposal survived.
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In Kenya, jubilation for 1 side after final numbers show slimmest of election wins
• NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's electoral commission is preparing to announce the final results of the nation's presidential election Saturday after a final tally showed Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta with the barest of majorities.
• Final numbers showed Kenyatta with 50.03 percent of the vote. Kenyatta needs more than 50 percent to win outright and avoid a runoff with Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who had 43.3 percent.
• Eliud Owalo, Odinga's chief campaign manager, said the prime minister would not concede defeat "because the process was fraudulent."
• Though Kenyatta appears to have just barely squeaked by the 50 percent hurdle, he solidly beat Odinga, one of eight candidates.
• That fact may help prevent the violence that exploded in Kenya after its last presidential vote, in 2007, when more than 1,000 people were killed.
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Anti-Shiite attacks up in Pakistan; analysts say officials give militants room to operate
• QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word "genocide" to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant (Continued on page 50)
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