A man is accused of shooting and wounding a Waffle House employee in suburban Denver the night after being asked to wear a face covering inside the restaurant, authorities said. Police in Aurora arrested Kelvin Watson, 27, on Monday on a charge of attempted first-degree murder, KDVR reported. Court records show Watson is represented by the […]
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NYC mayor says Colorado EMT who died from coronavirus after heeding call for help will be honored forever
By Colleen Slevin and Larry Neumeist, The Associated Press NEW YORK — A Colorado paramedic who came to New York City to save lives before losing his own to the coronavirus will be forever honored in a memorial to medical workers who answered the city’s 911 call to the rest of America, Mayor Bill de […]
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Most of Denver area to remain under stay-at-home order as governor eases statewide restrictions
Most of the Denver metropolitan area will remain under a stay-at-home order through at least May 8 even as Gov. Jared Polis relaxes his statewide restrictions on Coloradans’ movement starting next week. Public health officials in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield and Jefferson counties on Friday followed Denver’s lead in keeping the stay-at-home mandate in place, […]
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Coronavirus stole their last months of high school in Colorado, and a long list of traditions
On the last day of school at Littleton High, teachers form a walkway in the gym as graduating seniors pass through, stopping to hug and say goodbye and sometimes cry. Bella Hathorne had been looking forward to this tradition since she entered Littleton High four years ago as an anxious freshman, greeted by the same […]
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Opinion: Colorado can take a big step to reduce risk to the people and environment posed by oil and gas
In Colorado, nearly half a million people live within a mile of the state’s 60,000 or so active oil and gas wells. Oil and gas development has its boosters and detractors, but one thing we can all agree on is that it should not harm people or the environment. Last year’s oil and gas omnibus […]
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Colorado researchers are racing to find an antiviral drug that could save people with the new coronavirus
Almost a week after the new coronavirus shut down the University of Colorado medical campus and booted Jed Lampe from his lab, he got the call he had been waiting for Thursday afternoon. Lampe and two of his fellow researchers received special permission from their department chair and the dean of the Skaggs School of […]
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Wilson: Yes, black people care when our people kill
The news of 17-year-old Nathaniel Poindexter being shot to death at the Aurora Town Center knocked the wind out of me. I know the Poindexter family, and have known them for over two decades. Denver’s black community is small like that. Families know families, and all the business therein. Therefore, it couldn’t help but hit […]
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Old mining shacks are becoming backcountry ski huts in Colorado’s high country
ALMA — As the skiers approached a century-old mining shack in a clearing, views of the wind-ravaged slopes below London Mountain and Mosquito Peak emerged through the trees. “Anyone see anything that concerns them?” asked ski guide and avalanche educator Abe Pacharz, waiting for someone to point out recent avalanches on the flanks of the […]
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Asylum-seekers find compassion, resources at “House of Peace” once released from Aurora immigration center
Gurwinder Singh Aujla was unsure of what to do after winning his asylum case and being released from the privately owned Federal ICE Processing Center in Aurora. The 19-year-old from India was legally allowed to reside in the U.S., but he knew no one in Colorado, had little money, no phone and nowhere to go. […]
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Opinion: Casers and streeters and the case of the undelivered mail ballots in Colorado
Eight-hundred-and-twenty-eight ballots were not delivered to Aurora and Denver voters until late afternoon on Tuesday, Nov. 5, just hours before the polls closed on Election Day. How and why did that happen? Often, there are multiple factors leading to errors, mistakes, accidents and other failures. That may well be the case in this situation with […]