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PUEBLO, Colo. - Pueblo officials held a press conference, unveiling new details after a shooting Tuesday night injured three of their officers. Pueblo Chief of Police Chris Noeller spoke to reporters as he brimmed with emotion and strong words, holding not only anger for the suspect but also for lawmakers. Chief Noeller said the suspect who is accused of shooting three of his officers had a lengthy record, and should never have been on the street to begin with. "[He] had a criminal history that spans pages. He had 14 felony arrests, most of which pled to misdemeanors," said the...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) – A Mesa County Sheriff’s deputy and his family were hailed as “heroes” by a Texas fire department for their efforts during a historic sandstorm last week. Deputy Phillip Peterson was driving a U-Haul of belongings from Texas on March 14 when the weather went down south quickly. Minimal visibility and extreme winds caused cars to crash all around Peterson, resulting in a 40-plus car pileup on U.S. Interstate 27 outside of Canyon, Texas, which is about 18 miles south of Amarillo. Peterson’s U-Haul was hit, and the van – driven by his wife, Krystal, who...

Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly the same electricity as Boston. So power company officials were alarmed when a big chunk of those centers – 60 of them – suddenly dropped off the grid one day last summer and switched to on-site generators. The mass reaction was triggered by a standard safety mechanism across the data center industry, intended to protect computer chips and electronic equipment from damage caused by voltage fluctuations. But it caused a huge surge in excess electricity, according to federal regulators and utility...

An undocumented mother and immigration reform activist who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement feared she was being followed in recent days, her daughter told CNN. Jeanette Vizguerra gained international attention in 2017 when she took sanctuary in a Denver church for three years to avoid deportation during President Donald Trump’s first term. That same year, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. She is now being held at a detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, her attorney Laura Lichter told CNN. Vizguerra was taken into custody by ICE officers Monday...

Hard to believe more than a quarter-century later the brutal Columbine massacre is still claiming victims: Anne Marie Hochhalter, a Columbine survivor, died last month at the age of 43. We are now learning her death is being ruled a homicide because of complications from her being shot in the mass shooting in 1999. The death of a woman who was partially paralyzed in the Columbine High School shooting has been ruled a homicide, raising the death toll of the 1999 attack to 14. Anne Marie Hochhalter died Feb. 16 of sepsis — an extreme reaction to infection — and...

Tina Peters was once the Clerk and Recorder of Mesa County, Colorado, and was in charge of county elections. Now she is serving a nine-year term in a Colorado prison. Her crime? She identified the unauthorized destruction of voter information that took place in two consecutive county elections: the November 2020 election and a local election held in early 2021. In each case, there is irrefutable evidence showing that the election database had been removed and subsequently reinstalled, minus information needed to identify the voter intent of thousands of ballots. Peters, who is a matronly gold star mother, was concerned...

According to a proposal by Democrats at the Colorado state Capitol, up to a $20,000 fine will hang over the heads of every retailer who sells either liquid or gas fuels if they don’t have global warming warning stickers on their pumps and products if House Bill 25-1277 is signed into law. The bill, Increasing Transparency Impact of Fuel Products, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Bacon, D-Denver, Rep. Junie Joseph, D-Boulder and Sen. Lisa Cutter, D-Jefferson County, says retail outlets selling petroleum-based fuel products must put stickers on pumps, store displays and other retail items or face fines. “Evidently the purpose...

A Colorado police chief blasted the release of a suspect on bond who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and spray-painted “Nazi cars” at a Tesla dealership — after yet another arson incident occurred at the same business. Just after midnight Friday, Loveland police officers responded to an arson call at the local Tesla dealership, where they found an incendiary device between two cars on the property had caught fire and put “several occupants inside Tesla at risk,” according to the police department. The scene smelled strongly of gasoline, and several vehicles were damaged by what appeared to be thrown...

The Blue Moon brewery and restaurant in the River North Art District area of downtown Denver announced Thursday that it plans to close its doors this month. Blue Moon Brewing Company was founded in Denver in 1995. According to the website, its first Belgian-style wheat ale was brewed in the SandLot Brewery at Coors Field. Colorado lost 41 breweries in 2024, beer sales down more than national average The brewery at 3750 Chestnut Pl. opened in 2016 and allowed Blue Moon to create and experiment with new and unique ingredients, the website said. Blue Moon Rino serves beers that can...

The disappearance of Abdul Aziz Khan was featured on Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.'A young boy who was reported missing in Georgia several years ago has been found safe roughly 1,400 miles away. On Wednesday, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Colorado announced deputies recently found Abdul Aziz Khan after responding to a no trespassing call. Aziz, then 7 years old, was allegedly abducted by his noncustodial mother Rabia Khalid on Nov. 27, 2017 in Atlanta. His disappearance was featured on various programs, including Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.' According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a felony warrant for...

"Reasonable concerns have been raised about various aspects of Ms. Peters’ case. ... the exceptionally lengthy sentence imposed relative to the conduct at issue, the 1st Amendment implications of the trial court’s Oct 2024 assertions relating to Ms. Peters, & whether Colorado’s denial of bail pending appeal was arbitrary or unreasonable under the 8th and 14th Amendments Parallel to these .. DOJ is reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process. See Attorney General Memorandum, Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of The Department of Justice (February 5, 2025). This review will include an evaluation of the...

On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's executive order banning funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments to transgender youth. The order applies to the states of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Colorado. Newsweek contacted the White House press office for comment on Saturday via email outside of regular office hours. Why It Matters Since returning to the White House on January 20, President Donald Trump has signed a slew of executive orders impacting on transgender rights, which his supporters claim muddy the biological difference between males and females and are a...

Canadian wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and central Idaho in 1996 — but within a few years their territory and numbers had greatly expanded, along with their negative impact on livestock and elk herds.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston wants to add a 20% service charge to local restaurant tabs — and then tax it — to help restaurants cope with the city’s minimum wage and promote what he called pay equity among tipped and non-tipped employees. On Monday, Johnston told City Cast Denver, a popular podcast, that he has already been discussing the idea with restaurant owners. He didn’t say whether they are on board. He also did not discuss if increasing people's dinner costs would decrease restaurant visits. Johnston has incurred the ire of some local restauranteurs, who this month penned a letter...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston wants to add a 20% service charge to local restaurant tabs — and then tax it — to help restaurants cope with the city’s minimum wage and promote what he called pay equity among tipped and non-tipped employees. On Monday, Johnston told City Cast Denver, a popular podcast, that he has already been discussing the idea with restaurant owners. He didn’t say whether they are on board. He also did not discuss if increasing people's dinner costs would decrease restaurant visits. Johnston has incurred the ire of some local restauranteurs, who this month penned a letter...

With the start of the baseball season not far off, you might say CNN chief national correspondent John King is batting .000 CNN sent King out to Colorado's swing 8th congressional district -- a new district that stretches from the northern Denver suburbs up to Greeley -- to interview Trump voters just one month into his term. No doubt the network's hope was to find quickly disillusioned Trump voters who, if they had to do it again, would not have voted for him. The segment aired clips of interviews with four voters -- and King struck out every time.Get the...

A violent Tren de Aragua gang member who is suspected of murder has been released from prison in Chicago despite a 2022 deportation order. Pedro Colmenares, 33, of Venezuela, entered the United States in 2022 and was ordered to be deported by an immigration judge just a few months later. In 2024, two years after he was ordered to be deported, Colmenares was back in the hands of law enforcement on a weapons charge. “DHS issued an ICE detainer on Colmenares, but because of its sanctuary policy, Cook County refused to comply with the detainer, and Colmenares was set free,”...

A ban on the most popular semiautomatic rifles and numerous shotguns has passed Colorado’s House and Senate and is heading to Gov. Jared Polis’s (D) desk. The Colorado Sun noted the bill passed in the Senate earlier this week on a 19-15 vote. The 19 votes supporting the ban were all cast by Democrats. On January 29, 2025, Breitbart News warned a ban on numerous semiautomatic firearms — rifles and shotguns — passed the Colorado Senate Affairs Committee and was headed to the Senate Floor.

@MysteryGrove I just discovered that James Marshall, a BLM activist who shot a driver in the head during the George Floyd Riots, has been released from prison after only serving roughly 3 years Can someone in the Trump administration please look into federal charges against him? Marshall shot a disabled veteran in the back of the head at an armed roadblock. He was given an extremely lenient plea agreement by a Soros prosecutor. Even though the judge gave him the maximum sentence, 11 years, Marshall is currently listed as residing in a halfway house.

A Colorado bill could put doctors, government employees or morticians in jail if they accurately record the sex of deceased people who identified as transgender. The Colorado House is scheduled to hold a hearing on Feb. 25 examining legislation that would make it a crime not to abide by the chosen “gender identity” of deceased individuals on their death certificates. Medical experts expressed alarm at the attempt to erase biological reality from crucial state-issued documents. “It’s dangerous and absolutely nuts to threaten doctors with a misdemeanor if they won’t forge a death certificate. But it’s what I’d expect in Colorado,”...