By Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post The 110-year prison sentence meted out Dec. 13 to the truck driver who killed four people when he lost his brakes on Interstate 70 put a renewed spotlight on Colorado’s mandatory-minimum sentencing laws and on district attorneys’ ability to use such laws to ensure convictions lead to prison time. […]
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3 dead after vehicle strikes pedestrians in Aurora
AURORA — Three people are dead and two others are injured after a vehicle struck multiple pedestrians in suburban Denver. Sentinel Colorado reports a vehicle hit the pedestrians near an intersection northeast of Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora on Wednesday afternoon. Authorities said about 40 minutes after the crash that the driver and two of the […]
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A rural Colorado school district is struggling after a crash that killed five students
Teachers in a tiny, southeastern plains town where five students died as the result of a car crash were attempting to return to normal learning this week, even as the grief that crushed the community will linger for much longer. “It’s not something that is ever going to leave our thoughts,” Wiley School District Superintendent […]
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Four teens die in SUV crash on Colorado’s Eastern Plains
Four teenagers died Wednesday night when the SUV they were riding in on Colorado’s Eastern Plains was struck by a tractor trailer. The youngest victim was 15 years old and the oldest was 16. The crash happened in Prowers County at the intersection of U.S. 287 and Prowers County Road 196 near the town of […]