Author: Colleen Slevin
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Demonstrators in Denver protest coffee shop celebrating gentrification
DENVER — A coffee shop targeted by protesters after a message about gentrification struck a nerve in a rapidly changing city remained closed Monday despite an apology and plans to reopen after the holiday weekend. Last week, Ink! Coffee displayed a sidewalk sign that said “Happily Gentrifying the Neighborhood Since 2014” outside a store in…
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Cheerleading coach under investigation was fired in Boulder for similar allegations
DENVER, CO – AUGUST 9: District 3 police officer Michael Davis gives information to Corporal David Trujillo Denver Police Traffic Operations Bureau DUI/DRE (Drug Recognition Expert) as he begins an investigation of a one car accident where the driver is suspected to be under the influence at the Denver Health Medical Center. August 9, 2017…
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Colorado debuts driverless truck to protect road crews
CDOT began using a driverless truck on Friday that is designed to protect highway work crews from oncoming traffic.(Via PR Web/CDOT)
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Taylor Swift groping trial draws attention to hidden outrage
DENVER — Taylor Swift’s allegation that a former morning radio host reached under her skirt and grabbed her backside during a photo op is bringing attention to a common but largely hidden outrage for many women, one that few report. A 2014 survey found nearly 1 in 4 women in the United States had been…
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Town near Colorado ski resort welcomes visitors despite fire
DENVER — The historic mountain town near Breckenridge Ski Resort welcomed visitors who help drive its economy, despite a nearby wildfire Friday that forced residents to be ready to flee in case the blaze blows up. No houses have burned in the small blaze that is one of several in Colorado and around the U.S.…
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Ex-detainees: Aurora detention center’s practices border on slavery
DENVER — Every day, immigrants are told to clean their living areas in a privately run Colorado detention center or risk being put in solitary confinement. Some also volunteer to do jobs as varied as landscaping, more cleaning and cutting other inmates’ hair, but the pay is always the same — $1 a day. A…
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Remains of former slave eyed for sainthood moved to Denver church
DENVER — In a step toward possible sainthood, the remains of a former slave have been moved to a Catholic cathedral in Denver, where people lined up Wednesday to honor her and pray for her help. Many touched the glass covering of a wooden chest holding the exhumed skull and other bones of Julia Greeley,…
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Colorado man freed from prison faces possible deportation to Cuba
DENVER — The detention of a Cuban immigrant set to rejoin his family after he was mistakenly released from prison, then put back, has raised questions about whether more people from the island nation will be deported from the United States now that relations between the two countries have thawed. The U.S. Immigrations and Customs…
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Trailblazing Colorado abortion law marks 50th anniversary
DENVER — Tuesday marks 50 years since a groundbreaking Colorado law significantly loosened tight restrictions on legal abortions. Before the law, Colorado — like many states — allowed abortions only if a woman’s life was at stake. In 1967, a Democratic freshman state lawmaker introduced a bill that allowed abortions if the woman’s physical or…
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Report: Colorado heroin deaths double between 2011 and 2015
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — Heroin deaths doubled between 2011 and 2015 in Colorado while arrests for heroin offenses grew six times during that time period, according to the state’s first report on the drug released Thursday. However,…