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Ex-girlfriend arrested in fatal shooting of U.S. Postal Service worker in Longmont

Longmont police made an arrest in the shooting Wednesday of a U.S. Postal Service worker. Devan Schreiner, the 26-year-old ex-girlfriend of the victim, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder. She was booked into the Boulder County jail. Authorities have not identified the man who was killed in the shooting, but KCNC-TV reports his name […]

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U.S. Postal Service worker fatally shot in Longmont neighborhood

LONGMONT — Police are looking for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a postal worker in northern Colorado. The Times-Call reports the worker, whose name has not been released, was shot in front of a group of neighborhood mailboxes in southwest Longmont on Wednesday afternoon. The male suspect was seen fleeing the area wearing dark clothing, […]

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Colorado elections expert nominated by Joe Biden to serve on U.S. Postal Service governing board

Amber McReynolds, the former head of the Denver Elections Division and now the chief executive of the National Vote at Home Institute, is one of three people who will be nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board. McReynolds, who lives in Denver, has focused throughout her career on […]

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Colorado’s tiny mountain post offices are hamstrung — for the second straight holiday season

Crested Butte Mayor Jim Schmidt is getting that anxious feeling again when he makes his daily trek to the post office. A yellow slip in his post office box usually means a long wait in a line to retrieve a package. Just like last year, the line sometimes wraps around the outside of this town’s […]

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A test of Colorado mail finds delivery is timely — most of the time

By Sandra Fish, CoLab and Justin Wingerter, The Denver Post Reports of slower mail delivery times nationally and across Colorado since mid-summer are causing concern as more voters than ever plan to vote by mail in the Nov. 3 election, to avoid coronavirus exposure. But an unscientific experiment by the Colorado News Collaborative over the […]