Crime & Safety

Under Colorado’s ‘hands-free’ device law, it cannot be primary reason for law enforcement stop

Under a new “hands-free” law, Colorado drivers will be prohibited from using cellphones while driving, but it is a secondary offense, meaning it cannot be the primary reason to be pulled over.

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Colorado ranks third in lightning-related deaths, with 25 since 2006. Here’s how to stay safe

A thunderstorm that turned roads into rivers and basements into swimming pools lit up the sky over Greeley on Tuesday night with flashes of light as bright as daytime. Three days earlier, aย single lightning strikeย killed a Jackson County rancher and more than 30 of his cattle. Last week, a storm that raged over Yuma, rumbling like a freight train, buried the plains town inย knee-deep hail.

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Coloradoโ€™s (not yet signed) new law bans cellphone use while driving. When can it lead to a traffic stop?

All drivers will be prohibited from talking on or otherwise using their cellphones while driving under a bill passed by the Colorado legislature this year that Gov. Jared Polis says he will sign into law.ย 

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Brauchler: How best to protect our children in school

In a more perfect world, we would not know the name Kendrick Castillo. In a more perfect world, the only son of John and Maria Castillo would be starting a career in robotics after graduating college, driving his jeep all over, attending church with his parents, maybe spending time with someone he met and was sweet on, and generally living the promising life of a man in his early 20s.

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