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Training white people in Colorado to be “anti-racist” (not just “not racist”) is one step in the fight to correct historic wrongs

On a crisp Saturday morning in Boulder, 50 people, most of whom were white, streamed into the basement of a stately old downtown church to spend three hours immersed in the history of racism in America, a lesson that included uncomfortable truths, disturbing images and a belief that knowledge, ever powerful, could lead to change. […]

Posted inCrime and Courts, News

Already under investigation for her body-parts business, a Montrose woman has her state insurance license revoked

Megan Hess, the former Montrose funeral home owner under federal investigation for allegedly selling the body parts of people whose families wanted them cremated, had her state license as an insurance agent revoked this summer. But the reason had nothing to do with the federal investigation, according to disciplinary documents. Instead, state regulators accused Hess […]

Posted inCrime and Courts, Education, News

Florida woman found dead after manhunt, statewide school closures over threat, “infatuation” with Columbine

By Kathleen Foody and Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press A Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and may have been planning an attack of her own in Colorado just days ahead of the 20th anniversary was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide after a nearly 24-hour manhunt. Jefferson […]