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Family of boy taped to bench settles lawsuit
- The attorney for the family of a teenager whose wrestling coach taped him to a weightlifting bench for more than an hour says the lawsuit against the teacher has been settled.Attorney Pete Ramirez says coach Jon Penfold will pay for part of the settlement and the school district's insurance will pay a part for Dave Croissant, another wrestling coach who stood by while the taping happened two years ago. Fitz-Gerald gets top billing over Polis in August primary
- Democrats Joan Fitz-Gerald and Jared Polis earned enough votes to get on the August primary ballot to replace Colorado congressman Mark Udall.Former state Sen. Joan Fitz-Gerald will have the top line on the ballot over Polis after getting 60.1 percent of the vote at the 2nd Congressional District Assembly and Convention Saturday. Polis got 39.9 percent of the vote. Aurora Police seek gunmen after shooting wounds 2 women
- Two women were wounded outside a bar when they were caught in the middle of a shootout.Aurora police Detective Shannon Lucy says one woman's condition is serious and the other is stable after the shooting early Saturday. Lucy says the women were not involved in the dispute that sparked the shooting. She says they were waiting in a car for their friends when the two gunmen started shooting. Woman found in ditch near accident near Orchard Mesa drowned
- A woman found in a ditch near her pickup truck had drowned and alcohol was a factor.That according to the Mesa County coroner's office who investigated the death of Colleen Maxwell of Grand Junction. Record gold prices prompt gold mining in Boulder
- Nearly 150 years after gold was discovered in Boulder County along Gold Run Creek, a couple of old mines are slowly cranking back into operation now that excavating the slender veins of precious metal is profitable again.The Cash Mine in Gold Hill is about to wrap up its first year of operation after four decades of sitting idle, and miners may be swinging picks in the Cross Mine west of Nederland as early as this fall. Both mines were originally established in 1872. Somalis resettle into new life in Greeley, Colo.
- The four Somalis moved into the apartment last August, six floors up in a downtown Greeley building. The living room is furnished with only a metal folding chair and small table covered in papers and a laptop computer. A Somali flag, a white star against light blue, is the only wall hanging, draped behind the table.A 25-year-old man identifying himself as Mohamed Mohamed sits on the floor helping Nafiso Mohamed Abdi, 20, fill out a rental application form for another Greeley apartment complex. El Paso County considers selling parks to raise revenue
- El Paso County officials are looking at selling park land, including regional parks, to raise money because revenues are coming in below expectations.El Paso County boasts on its Web page that it "provides some of the best parks in the Pikes Peak region." The county has more than 7,000 acres of park land, mainly in large chunks such as Bear Creek Regional Park and Black Forest Regional Park. Kidnapped Colo. Springs woman alerts police with cell phone
- A woman abducted from a Target parking lot by a man who hit her head with a brick, bound her with tape and threw her in the back of her car used a cell phone to alert police.Police rescued the woman and arrested 41-year-old Timothy Clapp Saturday shortly after the woman called 911 at about 1:07 p.m. Police said Clapp and the woman did not know each other. Denver school principal no longer faces charge
- A Denver middle school principal no longer faces a charge for allegedly failing to report allegations of abuse for an incident in a classroom.A judge on Friday ruled that 37-year-old Nicole Veltze did not act willfully or wantonly to thwart the law. Veltze faced the charge for an incident that happened Dec. 14. Police: Officer charged with assault jumped on teenager
- A teenager allegedly attacked by a police officer suffered a lacerated liver, broken ribs and kidney injuries when the officer jumped on his back up to four times, according to the victim's family and police.Forty-year-old Officer Charles Porter, who had been assigned to the gang bureau, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of second-degree assault. |
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