Author: Jason Pohl
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Amid soaring rents, thousands face evictions in Colorado
FORT COLLINS — The deputy’s knock and booming words, “sheriff’s office,” echo down the stairwell, though nobody answers. Deputies draw their weapons and enter a woman’s home at Fossil Creek Condos, an upscale complex in southeast Fort Collins. She hasn’t paid rent for three months on her unit that overlooks the pool. She no-showed for…
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Police: Colorado parolee fatally struck baby with chair
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Police say a 24-year-old convicted child abuser confessed Thursday to fatally striking a baby with a chair after he became “frustrated” earlier this week in north Fort Collins. The 11-month-old child suffered life-threatening injuries in the alleged attack…
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40 years later: Remembering the Big Thompson Flood
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A year’s worth of rain fell in 70 minutes. Clouds piled 12 miles into the mountain sky unleashed a deluge on July 31, 1976, setting off the most powerful flood since glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago. The chaos along an otherwise trickling Big Thompson River killed 144 people, five of whom…
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Northern Colorado nurse accused of unlawful sexual contact
Northern Colorado nurse has been charged with unlawful sexual contact after multiple women alleged the man groped them while they were patients at hospitals across the region. Thomas Mark Moore, 43, was arrested Dec. 21 and has been charged with unlawful sexual contact, a Class 4 felony. Details about the allegations were not immediately available Tuesday…
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Traffic troubles: Fatalities spike in 2015 in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After years of holding steady or even declining, the number of people killed in Larimer County traffic-related incidents hit a record high in 2015, topping last year’s number by more than 54 percent, a Coloradoan…
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Teen’s recovery after Horsetooth Reservoir fall a “series of miracles”
Hannah Schall describes the 40-plus-foot tumble off Horsetooth Rock like segments from a dream. There are the fuzzy, fleeting memories of a friend trying to comfort her, rescuers working to secure her, and the rugged terrain acting against her. To be fair, what the 16-year-old Rocky Mountain High School junior experienced Aug. 18 would be…
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Two dead in Fort Collins shooting
Two men are dead in a reported murder-suicide in southwest Fort Collins. Fort Collins police and other emergency personnel responded to the shooting incident in the city’s southwest corner shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday. An informant told police that her husband had shot a family member and then himself. Upon arriving to the scene on…
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Owners prepare for recreational marijuana sales in Weld County
Like most business owners, John Rotherham is no stranger to working 60-hour weeks doing paperwork, planning for future expansion and managing nearly 50 employees. Unlike most business owners, you’ll often find him talking to customers about strains of marijuana named Cherry Skunk, Pineapple Express or Super Silver Haze in between stints of tending to hundreds…