PUEBLO — Colorado Republicans on Saturday rejected a contentious push to opt out of next year’s primaries, which would have blocked the state’s 1.7 million unaffiliated voters from helping to select the GOP’s 2022 general election candidates. The vote, taken at a meeting in Pueblo of the par…
PUEBLO — Colorado Republicans on Saturday rejected a contentious push to opt out of next year’s primaries, which would have blocked the state’s 1.7 million unaffiliated voters from helping to select the GOP’s 2022 general election candidates. The vote, taken at a meeting in Pueblo of the par…
The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t end on Sept. 4, even though federal unemployment benefits did. Last week, the jobless scene may have seemed quiet to outsiders, but it wasn’t. And this week, it became much worse, as 24,000 folks who’d received pandemic unemployment aid learned they must repay so…
By Thomas Peipert, The Associated Press LAFAYETTE — In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees have built a “vessel” they hope will usher in a more environmentall…
The man convicted of first-degree murder in the deadly 2019 shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch was sentenced to two terms of of life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday, plus scores of additional years. The sentencing of Devon Erickson by Douglas County District Judge The…
SALIDA — A judge ruled Friday there is enough evidence for the case to proceed against a southern Colorado man who was charged with first-degree murder nearly a year after his wife disappeared on Mother’s Day 2020. Judge Patrick Murphy ruled Barry Morphew, 53, should stand trial for the pres…
By Matthew Perrone and Lauran Neergaard, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — An influential federal advisory panel has soundly rejected a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans. The vote Friday, 16-2, was a blow to the Biden administration’s effort to shore up pe…
The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters will move back to Washington, D.C., from Grand Junction, the Interior Department announced Friday in a decision that comes despite objections from Colorado Republicans and Democrats, including the state’s two U.S. senators and its governor. “The B…
Denver Public Schools board member Tay Anderson insisted Friday that he will not resign, as school board members were set to begin deliberations on whether to censure him over an investigation they said “reveals behavior unbecoming of a board member.” Investigators found that Anderson flirt…
Sheridan police Officer Shawn Ralph faces an attempted assault charge and has been placed on administrative leave after allegedly choking a woman accused of shoplifting earlier this month while he was on duty. According to a statement from Sheridan police Chief Jeffrey Martinez, officers det…
COLORADO SPRINGS — A man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting a Colorado Springs police officer in the head. The Gazette reports Karrar Noaman Al Khammasi was convicted in June of attempted murder and other charges and was sentenced Thursday for the 2018 shooting that left O…
