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Aurora authorities knew about Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua’s activities for over a year
An investigation by a national group into the city of Aurora’s handling of a Venezuelan prison gang reveals that authorities — at all levels of government — were, in fact, aware of Tren de Aragua’s criminal activities long before city officials acknowledged their presence. The group also found that those activities extended beyond Aurora and…
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Aurora dentist offered $20,000 to kill lead detective on case
James Craig, an Aurora dentist accused of poisoning his wife, tried to get a cellmate to kill “the worst, dirtiest detective in the world,” according to testimony in an evidentiary hearing Friday. That officer, Aurora police detective Bobbi Jo Olson, has led the investigation of the alleged murder of Craig’s wife. Last November, two weeks before…
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A closer look at Shapiro’s carbon tax plan
(The Center Square) – Gov. Josh Shapiro recently unveiled his asks for the coming state budget, and like many of his predecessors, some of his latest proposals are ones he couldn’t get approved in years prior. One such request is the Pennsylvania Climate Emissions Reduction Act, called PACER for short. His administration describes it as…
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Helene: Answers sought for $59M to ‘illegal alien housing,’ corrective action
(The Center Square) – How $59 million was allocated “for illegal alien housing” in New York and what kind of detailed action plan is being proposed are asked of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton by five congressional members from North Carolina. Immersed in complaints about the Federal Emergency Management Agency…
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Bill restricting ammunition sales passes committee
(The Center Square) – Legislation further restricting firearm ammunitions sales in Colorado successfully passed committee Thursday. House Bill 25-1133, “Requirements for Sale of Firearms Ammunition,” was referred by the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee to the House for a vote following a lengthy debate by witnesses for both sides. The bill passed only narrowly by…
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WA bill would let courts decide if city camping bans are ‘objectively reasonable’
(The Center Square) – While Democrats say the proposal could level the playing field, their conservative counterparts argue it would allow homeless people to undermine local law. State legislators heard a second round of public testimony on House Bill 1380 on Wednesday, with over 2,300 people signed in. Washington’s public affairs network, TVW, aired an episode…
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Ferguson to President Trump: ‘You’re making it tough, really tough’
(The Center Square) – One month after his inauguration, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson held his second press conference on Thursday to discuss the state’s response to President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders and provide an update on related federal funding impacts. Ferguson was joined by other state leaders – including Attorney General Nick Brown…
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Convicted ex-speaker’s pension payments to stop
(The Center Square) – Illinois taxpayers are off the hook for Michael Madigan’s future pension payments, now that the former Illinois House speaker has been convicted of corruption. Madigan, a Democrat, has received payments from the General Assembly Retirement System (GARS) since he retired in 2021 after 50 years in the Statehouse. When a GARS…
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From big-city attorney to Colorado ranch hand helping save 200 horses from a wildfire
Ami Cullen is more at home on a Colorado dude ranch in her muddy work boots than she was in a courtroom. On an unusually warm February day on Granby’s C Lazy U ranch she saddled up her horse, Squirt — a palomino gelding with a silver mane and tail she “typically uses for the…
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Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet picks his battles | TRAIL MIX
Michael Bennet won a reputation late last month as one of sharpest questioners to confront Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a tense Senate hearing to consider the former independent presidential candidate’s fitness to serve as Donald Trump’s health secretary, but the Colorado Democrat wasn’t alone in pressing Kennedy over the nominee’s past statements about vaccination…