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Colorado sees surge in teachers losing their licenses for disciplinary reasons over last 5 years
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (1052+ words) Teacher discipline in Colorado spiked over the last five years, with the revocation, suspension and surrender of teachers" licenses reaching a record high in 2022 with 31 lost licenses and remaining elevated in the following years, according to a Denver Post analysis…...
Colorado rancher acknowledges her employee shot wolf in March
17+ hour, 36+ min ago (825+ words) Fourth-generation Colorado rancher Susan Nottingham acknowledges that one of her employees was behind the killing of the matriarch of the new King Mountain wolf pack in March. "One of my employees ended up shooting the mother female. The investigation is…...
Denver metro youth hockey coach arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing minors
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (143+ words) The Denver Post Douglas County authorities on Thursday arrested a 40-year-old youth hockey coach on suspicion of sexually assaulting minors. Rory Nathaniel Mushlin, of Colorado Springs, is being held on investigation of sexual assault on a child by one in…...
Denver's Montbello Recreation Center to reopen Monday following deadly shooting
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (136+ words) Denver Parks and Recreation will reopen the Montbello Recreation Center on Monday following a deadly shooting last month, officials announced this week. The May 21 shooting left 14-year-old Mikail Nasir Khalid Payne dead. Another young boy was arrested on suspicion of…...
Aurora driver says photo-radar speeding ticket violates state law, but city sticks to guns on tight response time
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (985+ words) Jason Anderson was driving his Subaru Impreza down South Dunkirk Street in Aurora on a February afternoon when he saw the flash of a mobile speed enforcement camera go off on the side of the road. Aware " and annoyed " that…...
Broncos OLB Jonathon Cooper arrested late Thursday night
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (179+ words) Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper was arrested late Thursday night on suspicion of misdemeanor criminal mischief with a domestic violence enhancer. Cooper, 28, was arrested by Parker police at 11: 16 p. m. and booked into Douglas County Jail at 2: 38 a. m. , according to jail records. As…...
Colorado mother told police "I feel like I killed her" after alcoholic teen daughter"s death
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (749+ words) Five days before 16-year-old Grace Ryan died, she begged her mother for help. "I'm in so much pain I can't keep doing this. Do something," the girl messaged her mother, according to an Arvada Police Department arrest affidavit released Thursday....
Colorado appeals court overturns homicide convictions for 2 paramedics in Elijah Mc Clain's death
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (120+ words) The Denver Post The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the homicide convictions and ordered new trials for the two former Aurora paramedics charged in the death of Elijah Mc Clain, according to court decisions released Thursday. Mc Clain, a 23-year-old…...
Driver who crashed into Northglenn home, killing passenger, charged with vehicular homicide
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (215+ words) An 18-year-old man who crashed into a Northglenn home last week, rupturing a gas line and killing his passenger, has been charged with vehicular homicide, prosecutors announced Thursday. Angelo Arias faces two vehicular homicide charges in the May 28 crash " one…...
Embattled head of Colorado's Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel placed on leave
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (556+ words) The commission overseeing Colorado's Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel placed the agency's embattled leader on administrative leave Thursday. The move comes after attorneys in Colorado's indigent defense community revolted against new executive director Joanna Landau in a two-hour public…...