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Speed cameras coming to Colorado roadways amid doubling of construction-zone deaths in 2024
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Speed cameras coming to Colorado roadways amid doubling of construction-zone deaths in 2024

By Mackenzie Bodell | The Gazette The state’s latest effort to crack down on speeding and reduce traffic fatalities comes amid an alarming increase in construction-zone deaths, which nearly doubled in 2024. The Colorado Department of Transportation released preliminary data from 2024 that reflects a roughly 5% decrease in traffic fatalities overall compared to 2023. Continued efforts by CDOT and the Colorado State Patrol hope to further reduce the number of traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries by 22.5% by 2027, as part of Gov. Jared Polis’ overall safety goal for Colorado. Statewide construction-zone deaths totaled 31 in 2024, up 94% from the previous year, which saw 16. In El Paso County alone, 13 construction-zone deaths were reported. Four of those fatalities were in...
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Douglas County deputies reunite with family they saved from crash with stolen vehicle
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Douglas County deputies reunite with family they saved from crash with stolen vehicle

By Alliyah Sims | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News Quick work and thinking by Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies protected a family of pedestrians from getting hit by a driver in a stolen vehicle at a grocery store. FOX31 spoke exclusively with them about their heroic actions after reuniting with the family they saved. Deputies Trent Hoffman and Connor Lacey face new challenges every day at work. “I don’t know what I’m going to run into,” said Lacey. “Who I’m going to find.” READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31 NEWS
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Proposal would result in once-a-decade adjusting of Denver school boundaries
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Proposal would result in once-a-decade adjusting of Denver school boundaries

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado Denver Public Schools’ superintendent would have to “analyze and adjust” school enrollment boundaries every 10 years or less under a proposal being considered by the school board. Board member Scott Esserman, who introduced the proposal Thursday, said it was a long time coming. The district hasn’t systematically reviewed its school boundaries in several decades, since it was the subject of a school desegregation lawsuit that led to widespread busing. The proposal, known as Executive Limitation 19, would require the superintendent to analyze and adjust school boundaries in conjunction with the federal Census. READ THE FULL STORY AT CHALKBEAT COLORADO
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How Colorado’s first agriculture-focused charter school is giving students tools for life
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How Colorado’s first agriculture-focused charter school is giving students tools for life

By Tracy Ross | The Colorado Sun The last thing the rancher from Arkansas wandering through the cattle barn at the National Western Stock Show thought he’d encounter was the group of kids surrounding him dressed in the un-ranchiest clothing. You could see it in his face.  So it took a minute for 10th grader Kailey Seymour, in a flannel, jeans and sneakers, to gather the courage to ask if he’d let them interview him while her classmate Gianni Montoya, in a fuzzy black-and-white Raiders poncho that grazed his knees, recorded the conversation on a phone.  Lucky for them — Philip Moon of Moon Herefords in Harrison, Arkansas — obliged. He listened to Seymour’s question — Do you sell your cattle at stock shows? — and gave a thoughtful answer. He said he raises cow-ca...
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Aurora firefighters return from Los Angeles with lessons, suggestions on fire safety
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Aurora firefighters return from Los Angeles with lessons, suggestions on fire safety

By Michael Abeyta | CBS Colorado The brush crew from Aurora Fire Rescue that went and helped in the Los Angeles firefighting efforts said Coloradans need to be prepared for a wildland fire at any time of year. The last time we saw Captain Jeremy Sones and the Aurora Fire Rescue Brush 13 crew they were on their way to fight the massive wildfires that were burning in LA. "We got back last Monday evening. What are we looking at? 17 days," said Sones. He said fighting the Palisades Fire was a life changing experience. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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For murdering his mother, Greeley man gets life in prison without parole
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For murdering his mother, Greeley man gets life in prison without parole

By Brooke Williams | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News A man from Greeley was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for shooting and killing his mother over two years ago. Andrew Sweatt, 28, was convicted of first-degree murder by a Weld County jury on Wednesday after an eight-day trial. According to a press release from the 19th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, Sweatt shot his mother 10 times on Dec. 8, 2022. The mother, Angela Eyestone, was found unresponsive when police arrived and was pronounced dead at a hospital. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Greeley’s own Tom Gocklin, UNC professor and oboe expert, wins a Grammy Award
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Greeley’s own Tom Gocklin, UNC professor and oboe expert, wins a Grammy Award

By John Moore | The Denver Gazette Did you know Colorado had a Grammy Award winner Sunday? We did, courtesy of Tim Gocklin, adjunct oboe professor and woodwind chamber music coordinator at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. And, for a day, anyway, bigger than Ryan Tedder in the Colorado music world. Gocklin's Akropolis Reed Quintet and composer Pascal Le Boeuf took home the Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for "Strands.” If you are tempted to click and give it a listen, Gocklin said: “I hope it makes you just get up and want to dance.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver police investigate string of shootings into vehicles along I-225 and I-25
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Denver police investigate string of shootings into vehicles along I-225 and I-25

By Gabby Easterwood | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News Denver police are investigating a string of shootings along Interstate 225 and Interstate 25 early Wednesday morning. Denver police said on Feb. 5, between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., they received approximately five reports of felony menacing with shots fired by a driver of a vehicle along I-225 in Aurora and I-25 in Denver. Detectives believe they have located and secured the suspect vehicle connected to these incidents. One of the victim’s vehicles was Terrell Padilla’s Honda. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31 NEWS
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King Soopers claims Colorado union used illegal negotiating tactics, leading to strike, in new lawsuit
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King Soopers claims Colorado union used illegal negotiating tactics, leading to strike, in new lawsuit

By Jack Lowenstein | CBS Colorado King Soopers/City Market filed a federal lawsuit in Colorado against United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union No. 7 (UFCW Local 7) on Friday. This comes amid the beginning of the two-week worker strike across the state.  According to the lawsuit, this action is being taken due to damages King Soopers says it's suffering, "as a result of [the] Defendant's continuing pattern of threatening, coercive, and restraining actions, taken for unlawful purposes in violation of the National Labor Relations Act and actionable in federal court under Section 303(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act." In response to the new lawsuit the workers union released a statement that said in part, "UFCW Local 7 learned that earlier this afternoon King Soopers fi...
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Denver school board considering pausing any future school closures
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Denver school board considering pausing any future school closures

By Melanie Asmar | Chalkbeat Colorado The Denver school board is considering pausing any future school closures until closures that are underway are executed and plans for vacant buildings are finalized. The proposal comes three months after the board voted in November to close or partially close 10 schools with low enrollment at the end of this school year. More than a year and a half earlier, the board voted to close three small schools in the spring of 2023. The proposal doesn’t include a timeframe for a moratorium on school closures, though several board members floated the idea of two or three years during a meeting Thursday. READ THE FULL STORY AT CHALKBEAT COLORADO
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