Author: Jenny Deam
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Jury acquits former assisted living health care worker charged in Colorado death case
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A former assisted living health care worker in Grand Junction was found not guilty on Thursday in connection with the death of 86-year-old Hazel Place, a dementia patient left unattended outside in 100-degree heat for six hours in June 2021. The Mesa County district court jury of eight men and four women deliberated just over…
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They were told their mother’s death was peaceful. It was all a lie. Questions persist about Colorado’s oversight of assisted living industry
Colorado Watch logo Donna Golden had slipped into pajamas and was watching the news the night it all began. She was exhausted. The heat had been excruciating that day, topping 100 degrees in Grand Junction and prompting the National Weather Service to issue its first-ever excessive heat warning for the region. A little past 10…
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Red flag laws are only as effective as the frequency with which they get used
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Almost immediately after Anderson Lee Aldrich was identified as the suspect in the Club Q mass shooting, the 22-year-old was linked to a 2021 bomb threat in a Colorado Springs neighborhood where a person with the same name and birthdate was arrested on multiple counts of kidnapping and felony menacing after threatening to blow up…
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‘It doesn’t stop:’ Victims of past attacks on LGBTQ clubs relive the horror
Christine Leinonen awoke Sunday morning and puttered about her Polk City, Fla., house completely unaware of the tragedy unfolding half a nation way in Colorado, one terrifying in its similarity to the mass shooting six years ago at an Orlando nightclub that took the life of her son and 48 others. She did notice her…