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County officials in Rio Grande, Colorado have terminated their contract with Dominion and all funding for their voting machines have been rescinded

DENVER — Police in Denver are investigating a shooting involving officers in the downtown area that left one woman dead Sunday. It happened at 11:44 a.m. on Broadway near the Lawrence Street intersection. Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said officers responded to the area on a report that a woman holding a knife was in the intersection. When officers arrived, they confronted the woman and gave her commands to drop the knife. However, Thomas said the woman refused and began advancing toward the officers.

Former Parker Mayor Greg Lopez — a 2020 election denier — won the Republican nomination for Colorado's 4th Congressional District special election to finish what's left of former GOP U.S. Rep. Ken Buck's term. Why it matters: Ahead of the November election, the four-way race was a test to signal whether Democratic support is growing in this GOP-dominated region, which covers the state's Eastern Plains. Reality check: The result, however, indicates Republicans' stronghold remains firmly intact. By the numbers: Lopez won with 57% of the vote in preliminary results posted when polls closed at 7pm. The Associated Press projected him...

Jeff Hurd, a Grand Junction attorney and first-time candidate, won the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional District seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. Why it matters: .. makes it more likely Republicans will retain the seat in the November election. Driving the news: In the six-way GOP contest, Hurd won 42% in preliminary results. .. His primary challenger, prominent 2020 election denier and Trump supporter Ron Hanks, received 28%. The remaining candidates took 10% or less. The big picture: For the second time in as many elections, the result is an embarrassment for Democrats, who spent big...

Rep. Lauren Boebert has won the packed Republican primary in Colorado’s 4th after switching districts. The seat previously belonged to Rep. Ken Buck, who announced his plans to retire earlier this year. The district should be an easy win for the congresswoman in November as it leans heavily red. “Since the first day I ran for public office I promised I would do whatever it takes to stop the socialists and communists from taking over our country,” Boebert said when announcing her plan to switch districts in December. “That means staying in the fight. But it also means not allowing...

Campus carry for self-defense will become illegal in Colorado when SB24-131 takes effect on July 1, 2024. On April 20, 2015, Breitbart News noted that campus carry had been the law of the land in Colorado since 2003. There had been no mass shootings, and, apart from one incident in which a Colorado University employee accidentally discharged a gun, there were zero crimes by permit holders during those first 12 years. A Google search conducted on June 24, 2024, found the story had not changed — there have still been no mass shootings on a Colorado college/university campus, and no...

Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave Desert. Four of the men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County.Violence like this was supposed to disappear after legalization. ...California's legal drug revenues have fallen consistently, as have those in other legal drug states including Colorado, whose model helped sell the idea that drug money would fix everything.***Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers...

Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068 on June 5 to expand their state assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their law. Senate Bill 24-068 expanded the Colorado assisted suicide law by: allowing advanced practice registered nurses to approve and prescribe lethal poison, reducing the waiting period from 15 days to 7 days, allowing the doctor or advanced practice registered nurse to waive the waiting period if the person is near to death, Adding language specifying that if any end-of-life options conflict with requirements to receive federal money, the conflicting part is...

The man accused of wrecking a semi along a highway in Colorado last week, killing one person and injuring another, is an illegal immigrant who has a long history of removal from the United States, authorities said. Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, 47, of Mexico, is facing reckless driving and homicide-related charges in connection with the June 11 crash. Mendoza was hauling a load of steep pipe on Hwy 285 near Conifer when he lost control of the semi, sending it rolling onto its side as it veered off the road, Colorado State Patrol (CSP) said.

An illegal alien from Mexico, deported 16 times from the United States, is accused of killing a 64-year-old man from Bailey, Colorado, in a vehicle crash. Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, a 47-year-old illegal alien, has been arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, reckless driving, and driving without a commercial driver’s license in connection to the death of 64-year-old Scott Miller. According to the Colorado State Patrol, Cruz-Mendoza was driving a semi-truck for the Indio, California-based Monique Trucking company on Highway 285 near Conifer, Colorado, when the vehicle veered off the road, causing the pipe and angle iron he was carrying...

Security guard Matthew Dolloff fatally shot Lee Keltner in the October 2022 confrontation.. Colorado's second-highest court on Thursday concluded 9News can be held liable for the actions of a security guard who accompanied a producer during an October 2020 rally in downtown Denver and ended up fatally shooting a man after a brief confrontation. At the same time, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed 9News could not otherwise be liable for negligently hiring or supervising Matthew Dolloff because the evidence showed the organization did not employ or direct him, instead obtaining Dolloff's services through multiple layers of...

So much attention this year has been deservedly placed on this November’s all-important presidential contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. But there are countless other critical races for House and Senate seats whose outcomes are every bit as important because they will decide how easily President Trump can begin implementing his agenda from the get-go. Enter Colorado: a pivotal state that can decide the makeup of the House this year. In particular, the third congressional district. CD-3 was formerly Rep. Lauren Boebert’s old haunt before redistricting, where she is now running in CD-4. The CD-3 Republican primary race is...

A report by a Native American-led nonprofit group claims indigenous homelands were taken by Colorado, and the state reaped mountains of money through that action. The report shares about the apparent “dispossession” of $1.7 trillion worth of the indigenous homelands by the state and the United States, according to an Associated Press (AP) article published Friday. The outlet noted the report was compiled by the Truth, Restoration, and Education Commission (TREC). In addition, the report claims that Colorado gained nearly $550 million in mineral extraction from those homelands. The AP article continued:

Brice Andrew DiGiorgio (Cowboy State Daily Staff) A Florida man who stole a fire department’s brush truck four years ago is at it again, this time absconding from Colorado to Wyoming in a stolen semitruck, court documents claim. Brice Andrew DiGiorgio, 35, is facing two felony theft charges in Carbon County, Wyoming, on allegations that he stole a semi in Colorado, fled with it through Wyoming until it wouldn’t drive anymore, then stole a Chevy pickup until it crashed on a two-track road near Hanna. Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Evan Deneke received a be-on-the-lookout alert from Carbon County dispatch the...

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed legislation last week expanding the state’s assisted suicide laws. Senate Bill 24-068 weakens many of the safeguards surrounding assisted death by allowing non-physicians like advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to evaluate the patient and prescribe assisted suicide drugs. It also reduces the waiting period for assisted suicide from 15 days to seven days and allows the doctor or APRN to waive the waiting period altogether if they believe that the patient is near death. According to Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, many states like Colorado seek to allow APRNs to administer suicide because...

Puerto Rico’s elections commission has announced that is will be reviewing its contract prior to the November 2024 election with Dominion Voting Systems after finding hundreds of discrepancies while using over 6,000 Dominion Voting machines during their heated primary elections. ... machine-reported vote counts were lower than the paper ones in some cases, and some machines reversed certain totals or reported zero votes for some candidates. ... This isn’t the first time states or counties have discussed canceling their contracts with Dominion Voting Systems. In an interview with Georgia’s SOS Brad Raffensberger, who many believe is an untrustworthy election official,...

DENVER, CO — In a stunning ruling just before the end of the day that veered away from any legal precedent, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the criminal conviction handed down to Hunter Biden just this morning. The court unanimously ruled that the conviction was made in error and vacated the judgment, wiping the guilty verdict off the books and making Hunter Biden an innocent man despite the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court had no jurisdiction over the case. "The Colorado Supreme Court strikes again," said legal analyst Professor Blake Rumsey. "Though the case was tried in Delaware, the...

A large bull elk with his harem of does relaxes on the front lawn of a home in Estes Park, Colorado. (Via X) In separate incidents less than a week apart, two children — an 8-year-old girl and a boy, 4 — were hurt by irate cow elk protecting their calves in Estes Park, Colorado. The girl was charged and stomped by a cow elk May 30, and the boy was similarly attacked Monday, according to reports from the Colorado Parks and Wildlife department (CPW). In both instances, the children were taken to hospitals, treated and released the same day....

COLORADO (KCNC) — A Colorado judge who accepted a public censure and resigned following accusations of sexually charged conduct at work is striking back at the state investigation into his behavior calling it “disproportionate punishment for the crime.” He is claiming state administrators wanted to embarrass, ridicule, and shame him for his alternative lifestyle. “The investigation was overzealous and a waste of taxpayer dollars,” said former Judge John Scipione in his first media interview, “It could have been resolved in its infancy. This case is about a waste of taxpayer dollars and a vindictive, nasty witch hunt aimed at destroying...

GRANBY, Colo. — Twenty years ago, a man bent on destroying the town of Granby for perceived wrongs got into his modified bulldozer and went on a rampage that thrust the small mountain town into the national spotlight.