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Close call at Colorado rail crossing as car struck by train after evacuation
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Close call at Colorado rail crossing as car struck by train after evacuation

By Brooke Williams | Fox 31 DENVER (KDVR) — People were able to get out of a car before it was hit by an oncoming train on Sunday night. South Adams County Fire Department said in a post on X that it responded to the crash at the intersection of Highway 2 and 88th Avenue around 10:50 p.m. When Battalion Chief 21 arrived, crews found a vehicle with moderate damage and a train that was stopped at the railroad crossing. The fire department said the occupants inside the vehicle were able to get out before the collision with the train, and no one was injured. The agency did not release information about how the vehicle may have ended up in the train’s path. READ THE COMPLETE STORY AT FOX 31
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DU scales back DEI programs to avoid losing federal funding
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DU scales back DEI programs to avoid losing federal funding

By Evan Kruegel | Denver Gazette Chancellor Jeremy Haefner said he's concerned DU's access to federal funding could be at risk if it doesn't comply The University of Denver is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion work as it moves to comply with new directives from the Trump administration. In an interview with 9NEWS, Chancellor Jeremy Haefner said DU will no longer provide DEI training for staff and will end scholarships and programs once offered exclusively to students of specific racial groups. Haefner said the university previously had “gifts and scholarships that were directed towards protected classes that the Department of Justice memo has really now clearly articulated as unlawful.” Other colleges have already seen federal funding frozen or pulled after th...
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Littleton proves citizen power still matters in Polis’ Colorado
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Littleton proves citizen power still matters in Polis’ Colorado

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Littleton voters get a say because they wouldn't have it any other way. The City of Littleton tried to stuff a Polis-inspired density mandate down the throats of their residents late last year. Residents did exactly what they should have: they went to the city council meeting in numbers and told them their thoughts on the measure. The city council wisely decided to postpone the measure pending a group of residents putting gathering signatures and putting it up on the November ballot. There is more detail in the Complete article linked at bottom, but the part I want to focus on here is the Littleton voters and what their actions mean for you (and not just with regard to density). Pay attention to what your lo...
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Kitchen fire leaves Fort Collins homeless shelter in ruins
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Kitchen fire leaves Fort Collins homeless shelter in ruins

By: Heather Willard | Fox 31 DENVER (KDVR) — Over 80 people were displaced after a fire on Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Fort Collins Rescue Mission. The fire started in the kitchen, according to the rescue mission’s CEO, Dennis Van Kampen, who provided an update on the rescue on Sunday. He said that the fire extensively damaged the building’s offices and kitchen, saying that the building is not usable.Northglenn police searching for 2 suspects after person shot near Tamale Kitchen “Our staff did an amazing job of making sure that everyone got out safely, and we are thanking God that no one was hurt, but the building needs help,” Van Kampen said. The Poudre Fire Authority reported the blaze at about 7:16 p.m. on Saturday, and said that heavy fire damage occurred in the bu...
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Denver’s $950 million bond: Taxpayers deserve full accountability before another blank check
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Denver’s $950 million bond: Taxpayers deserve full accountability before another blank check

By Erik Clarke | Commentary, Westword "Denver residents want to support good projects that improve our daily life and solve real problems. Taxpayers also want to know that their money is being managed responsibly." In 2017, Denver voters approved the $937 million Elevate Denver Bond Program to improve civic infrastructure across the city. Eight years later, while some projects have made meaningful progress, many remain delayed, over budget or not yet started. Now, the city is preparing to ask voters to approve another nearly billion dollars through the proposed Vibrant Denver package. Before we’re asked to vote this November, we deserve more than summaries and categories. We deserve transparency. We deserve details. As of today, there is no public cost breakdown ...
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After detective’s passing, family asks community to stand strong together
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After detective’s passing, family asks community to stand strong together

By Courtney Fromm | Fox 31 NORTHGLENN, Colo. (KDVR) — The family of Northglenn Police Detective Paul Gesi met for a press conference Monday to discuss their dad’s passing just a few weeks ago. “Truth above everything, and we hold that close to us, and that’s why we are very open about how this happened,” Jonathan Gesi, Paul’s son, said during the press conference. Gesi died by suicide just a few weeks ago after a long struggle with PTSD from his career. His kids said Monday, their dad never brought work home, but they said there were some signs he was struggling. “A little towards the end, he would talk a little more about the darkness he’s been dealing with in his 41 years in being an officer,” Emily Gesi, his second-oldest daughter, said. READ THE COMPLETE S...
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Lee Fire Near Meeker Grows To Fourth-Largest In Colorado History
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Lee Fire Near Meeker Grows To Fourth-Largest In Colorado History

By Óscar Contreras | Denver7 The wildfire burning southwest of Meeker surpassed the size of the Hayman Fire, which burned 137,760 acres in 2002. RIO BLANCO COUNTY, Colo. — The Lee Fire burning in Rio Blanco County became the fourth-largest blaze in Colorado history Monday,a little more than three weeks after igniting southwest of Meeker. As of Monday, the fire has burned 138,844 acres and is 90% contained. Previously known as the Lee and Grease Fire, the blaze has surpassed the 416 Fire (2018), the West Fork Fire (2013), the Missionary Ridge Fire (2002), and the High Park Fire (2012) in size after scorching more than 100,000 acres of land in just eight days, according to fire officials. Severe drought conditions combined with several days of red flag warnings along Col...
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CU Boulder Shelter-In-Place Lifted After Swatting Hoax Causes Panic
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CU Boulder Shelter-In-Place Lifted After Swatting Hoax Causes Panic

By Sydney Isenberg | Denver7 Monday's incident is the latest in a string of false reports that have impacted universities across the country over the past few days. BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado Boulder is the latest university to receive a fake active shooter report, triggering a campus-wide shelter-in-place order Monday evening. Just before 5 p.m., the university ordered everyone on its campus to shelter in place due to "police activity" near Norlin Library. Police were initially investigating reports that shots had been fired near the library. At 5:40 p.m., CUPD said it was investigating a "potential swatting situation," and officers had cleared Sewell Hall. The main campus was placed under a shelter-in-place order, including Norlin Library and Sewall Hall. ...
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San Luis families left dry: Rural Colorado town loses water with no warning
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San Luis families left dry: Rural Colorado town loses water with no warning

By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun FORT GARLAND — In the sandy hills scattered with piñon pine and spiky yucca, hundreds of people have relied on a water supply that is so much a part of the local culture that Costilla County residents describe it as a way of life.  Drilling for water is a pricey gamble on the high desert where many live off the grid at 7,500 to 10,000 feet of elevation. A well could cost $25,000 with no guarantee that water will spring, even after digging hundreds of feet.  Instead, many people in the poorest county in the state have opted for cisterns, reservoirs buried underground and covered with a plastic lid or cement slab. To fill them, residents drive 20 minutes or so to town, often weekly, with tanks in their pickup trucks or on their tra...
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Father and son among six victims of deadly Keenesburg dairy accident
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Father and son among six victims of deadly Keenesburg dairy accident

By Óscar Contreras | Denver7 The Weld County Coroner's Office released the identity of the six people who likely died from lethal exposure to a toxic gas on Wednesday. KEENESBURG, Colo. — The Weld County Coroner's Office on Friday released the identities of the six people killed at a dairy earlier this week, as questions remain about the deadly accident in Keenesburg. Six people, including a high school student and his father, died in what Weld County authorities initially called a “dairy accident” at a dairy at Prospect Ranch. The victims are all male, and their ages range from 17 to 50. Denver7 continues to learn more about the victims of the deadly accident, who were identified as follows. Oscar Espinoza Leos, 17, of Nunn 17-year-old Oscar Espinoza Leos was a student a...
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