Advocates decry homeless sweeps ahead of MLB's All-Star game
DENVER (AP) — Ahead of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game in Denver this week, city officials are facing scrutiny from advocates who accuse them of accelerating the clearing of homeless encampments near Coors Field as the sports world turns its attention to Colorado’s capital city.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Advocates decry homeless sweeps ahead of MLB's All-Star game
DENVER (AP) — Ahead of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game in Denver this week, city officials are facing scrutiny from advocates who accuse them of accelerating the clearing of homeless encampments near Coors Field as the sports world turns its attention to Colorado’s capital city.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Advocates decry homeless sweeps ahead of MLB's All-Star game
DENVER (AP) — Ahead of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game in Denver this week, city officials are facing scrutiny from advocates who accuse them of accelerating the clearing of homeless encampments near Coors Field as the sports world turns its attention to Colorado’s capital city.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Advocates decry homeless sweeps ahead of MLB's All-Star game
DENVER (AP) — Ahead of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game in Denver this week, city officials are facing scrutiny from advocates who accuse them of accelerating the clearing of homeless encampments near Coors Field as the sports world turns its attention to Colorado’s capital city.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Floyd killing prompts some states to limit or ban chokeholds
Democratic Rep. Leslie Herod had no luck persuading her colleagues in the Colorado Legislature to ban police from using chokeholds after the death of a 23-year-old Black man in suburban Aurora in 2019.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Floyd killing prompts some states to limit or ban chokeholds
Democratic Rep. Leslie Herod had no luck persuading her colleagues in the Colorado Legislature to ban police from using chokeholds after the death of a 23-year-old Black man in suburban Aurora in 2019.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Floyd killing prompts some states to limit or ban chokeholds
Democratic Rep. Leslie Herod had no luck persuading her colleagues in the Colorado Legislature to ban police from using chokeholds after the death of a 23-year-old Black man in suburban Aurora in 2019.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in more than 20 states have considered bills this year to make the disciplinary records of police officers public or to share them with other agencies, a push that comes amid high-profile deaths at the hands of law enforcement. About 20 states still largely prohibit their …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in more than 20 states have considered bills this year to make the disciplinary records of police officers public or to share them with other agencies, a push that comes amid high-profile deaths at the hands of law enforcement. About 20 states still largely prohibit their …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
3 officers resign in rough arrest of woman with dementia
DENVER (AP) — Three Colorado police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia — and later seen on video talking about her arrest, laughing and joking at times — have resigned, police said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in more than 20 states have considered bills this year to make the disciplinary records of police officers public or to share them with other agencies, a push that comes amid high-profile deaths at the hands of law enforcement. About 20 states still largely prohibit their …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
3 officers resign in rough arrest of woman with dementia
DENVER (AP) — Three Colorado police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia — and later seen on video talking about her arrest, laughing and joking at times — have resigned, police said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
3 officers resign in rough arrest of woman with dementia
DENVER (AP) — Three Colorado police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia — and later seen on video talking about her arrest, laughing and joking at times — have resigned, police said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
3 officers resign in rough arrest of woman with dementia
DENVER (AP) — Three Colorado police officers involved in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia — and later seen on video talking about her arrest, laughing and joking at times — have resigned, police said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
City probe faults overall police treatment of Elijah McClain
DENVER (AP) — The results of an investigation into the fatal arrest of Elijah McClain in suburban Denver released Monday criticizes how police handled the entire incident, faulting officers for their quick, aggressive treatment of the 23-year-old Black man and the department for having a weak accountability system that failed …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Vatican clears retired US bishop of multiple abuse claims
DENVER (AP) — The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts' determination that a half-dozen claims were credible and instead slapping him on the wrist for what it called “flagrant" imprudent behavior.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Vatican clears retired US bishop of multiple abuse claims
DENVER (AP) — The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts' determination that a half-dozen claims were credible and instead slapping him on the wrist for what it called “flagrant" imprudent behavior.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Colorado officers won’t be charged for detaining Black girls
DENVER (AP) — Suburban Denver police officers won’t be charged after detaining four Black girls by gunpoint this summer and handcuffing two of them after wrongly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, prosecutors said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Colorado officers won’t be charged for detaining Black girls
DENVER (AP) — Suburban Denver police officers won’t be charged after detaining four Black girls by gunpoint this summer and handcuffing two of them after wrongly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, prosecutors said Friday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
California announces first confirmed case of virus variant
California on Wednesday announced its first confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, the second case documented in the United States in a day.
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Colorado Guardsman has 1st reported US case of virus variant
DENVER (AP) — The first person in the U.S. known to be infected with a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus was identified Wednesday as a Colorado National Guardsman who had been sent to help out at a nursing home struggling with an outbreak. And health officials …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
States making bold new legal claims in 2 Google lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a wave of antitrust actions surges against Google and Facebook, states in two lawsuits are stretching beyond the cases made by federal competition enforcers to level bold new claims. The states are taking new legal approaches as they join the widening siege against the two once …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
States making bold new legal claims in 2 Google lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a wave of antitrust actions surges against Google and Facebook, states in two lawsuits are stretching beyond the cases made by federal competition enforcers to level bold new claims. The states are taking new legal approaches as they join the widening siege against the two once …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Dozens of states file anti-trust lawsuit against Google
DENVER (AP) — Dozens of more states are joining an escalating effort to prove Google has been methodically abusing its power as the internet's main gateway in a way that hurts consumers habitually feeding personal information into its search engine and advertisers pouring billions of dollars into its vast marketing …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Dozens of states file anti-trust lawsuit against Google
DENVER (AP) — Dozens of more states are joining an escalating effort to prove Google has been methodically abusing its power as the internet's main gateway in a way that hurts consumers habitually feeding personal information into its search engine and advertisers pouring billions of dollars into its vast marketing …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
States making bold new legal claims in 2 Google lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a wave of antitrust actions surges against Google and Facebook, states in two lawsuits are stretching beyond the cases made by federal competition enforcers to level bold new claims. The states are taking new legal approaches as they join the widening siege against the two once …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Dozens of states file anti-trust lawsuit against Google
DENVER (AP) — Dozens of more states are joining an escalating effort to prove Google has been methodically abusing its power as the internet's main gateway in a way that hurts consumers habitually feeding personal information into its search engine and advertisers pouring billions of dollars into its vast marketing …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Colorado mom pleads not guilty in daughter's death
DENVER (AP) — A woman charged with killing her daughter after allegedly fraudulently portraying her as terminally ill and seeking donations to cover her medical care pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Inmates facing big virus risks not near top of vaccine lists
DENVER (AP) — Amber Johnson is terrified her 63-year-old father will get the coronavirus. He has high blood pressure, asthma and is pre-diabetic, and she worries he's especially vulnerable as an inmate in Colorado, where outbreaks in prisons are raging.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
US won't seek death penalty in Planned Parenthood case
DENVER (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing three people and injuring nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado in 2015.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
9 new Catholic priests named in Colorado sex abuse report
Nine more Catholic priests, including one well known for helping Denver's homeless, were found to have sexually abused children in an updated report on sex abuse in Colorado's Catholic churches released Tuesday by state Attorney General Phil Weiser.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Women challenge tribal banishment in US appeals court
DENVER (AP) — A lawyer for four women who were temporarily banned from the Ute Indian Tribe’s reservation in Utah asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to revive a lawsuit challenging their punishment.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Court weighs challenge to Colorado discrimination law
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado web designer should not have to create wedding websites for same-sex couples under the state's anti-discrimination law because it would amount to forced speech that violates her religious beliefs, a lawyer told an appeals court Monday.
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TV guard's lawyer: Evidence of self-defense in shooting
DENVER (AP) — A lawyer representing a television station security guard who shot and killed a demonstrator during opposing right- and left-leaning rallies this month told a judge Wednesday that there was “obvious evidence of self-defense."
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Denver DA: TV security guard will be charged with murder
DENVER (AP) — A television station security guard accused of fatally shooting a pro-police demonstrator following opposing rallies will be charged with second-degree murder, Denver's District Attorney Beth McCann said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Denver DA: TV security guard will be charged with murder
DENVER (AP) — A television station security guard accused of fatally shooting a pro-police demonstrator following opposing rallies will be charged with second-degree murder, Denver's District Attorney Beth McCann said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Man described as neo-Nazi pleads guilty in synagogue plot
DENVER (AP) — A man described by U.S. prosecutors as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to a hate crime for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue last year.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Video suggests slain protester was upset about being filmed
DENVER (AP) — Video from a Denver television station shows that a pro-police demonstrator who was fatally shot by a security guard hired by the station was apparently angry that he was being filmed by a producer for the station as he argued with another man just seconds before the …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Police: Protest shooting victim shot after altercations
DENVER (AP) — A man fatally shot by a reporter's security guard after opposing weekend protests argued with another man before getting involved in an altercation with the guard, police said in a court document released Tuesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Lawyer: Denver guard in fatal shooting acted in self-defense
DENVER (AP) — An armed security guard hired to protect a television news crew at a weekend protest shot and killed a protester after he reached into his shirt, causing the guard to fear for his safety, according to a lawyer representing the guard’s family.
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Lawyer: Denver security guard acted in self-defense
DENVER (AP) — An armed security guard for a television station who is suspected of fatally shooting a man following an altercation after opposing protests was acting in self-defense when he opened fire, a lawyer representing his family said Monday.
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Lawyer: Denver security guard acted in self-defense
DENVER (AP) — An armed security guard for a television station who is suspected of fatally shooting a man following an altercation after opposing protests was acting in self-defense when he opened fire, a lawyer representing his family said Monday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Denver investigates license for guard arrested in shooting
DENVER (AP) — Denver officials were investigating Monday how an armed security guard for a television station who is suspected of fatally shooting a man following an altercation following opposing protests was able to work in the city without a license.
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Cop who stopped Elijah McClain fired over chokehold photos
One of the three white officers who stopped Elijah McClain has been fired over photos showing colleagues reenacting the chokehold used on the Black man before he died last year
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Colorado unemployment claims soar 737% amid virus shutdown
Colorado had more than 19,000 unemployment claims last week, a 737% increase from the previous week, as businesses laid off workers amid the widespread economic shutdown because of the coronavirus, the U.S. Labor Department said Thursday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Frazee charged with murder of missing fiancee
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man was charged Monday with murder and solicitation to commit murder in the death of his missing fiancee as police try to find out what happened to the mother of his child.
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