Author: Mitchell Byars
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Colorado hospital employee resigns after being told to delete gay flag screen saver
For Michelle Hurn, the screen saver on her office computer at Boulder Community Health’s Foothills Hospital has always been a reflection of her life. Photos of her running, her pets, her wife. So after the 2016 election, Hurn put up a photo of the gay pride flag waving in the wind as her new screen…
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Colorado high school football coach charged with assaulting student
Dylan Thomas Hollingsworth, the Niwot High School football coach accused of choking a student and then kneeing him in the groin, was charged Thursday with assault and harassment. Holingsworth, 43, was charged with one count of second-degree assault, a Class 4 felony, and one count of third-degree assault, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The harassment charge…
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Colorado high school football coach charged with assaulting student
Dylan Thomas Hollingsworth, the Niwot High School football coach accused of choking a student and then kneeing him in the groin, was charged Thursday with assault and harassment. Holingsworth, 43, was charged with one count of second-degree assault, a Class 4 felony, and one count of third-degree assault, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The harassment charge…
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CU student found not guilty of murder in Boulder stabbing
Twelve Boulder County jurors were asked to determine whether the fatal stabbing of University of Colorado student Sean Hudson by another student during a brawl in downtown Boulder last December was self-defense or murder. After a week of testimony and just three hours of deliberation, they came to the same conclusion as Ian Scheuermann’s attorneys:…
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‘Epic, for sure’: Climber recounts night stuck on Boulder’s Second Flatiron
When Jeremy Cadwell moved to Colorado earlier this summer, he was looking to “find some new things.” Stranded on the side of the Second Flatiron earlier this week, watching a Boulder sunset, it’s safe to say Cadwell got that — and then some. “I certainly found what I was looking for,” Cadwell said Wednesday. “I…
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State patrol: Triathlete killed during Ironman Boulder swerved out of race lane
Investigators say the Ironman Boulder competitor who was struck and killed by a vehicle during the cycling portion of Sunday’s triathlon swerved out of the designated race lane on her bicycle before she was hit. Michelle Walters, 34, of McCook, Neb., died after being hit at the 31.9 milemarker of U.S. 36 at 9:47 a.m.…
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‘He’s a miracle’: Boulder man survives crocodile attack in Costa Rica
A Boulder man survived an attack by a large crocodile at a popular tourist beach in Costa Rica on Friday after he and his friend fought off the reptile with their bare hands. Jon Becker, 59, remained in serious but stable condition on Monday. Costa Rican media reported he suffered partial amputation of his right…
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SWAT at Colorado house on report of shots fired during break-in
Police and SWAT officers are trying to determine whether two armed men are holed up inside a Lafayette home this morning after a woman reported a gunman fired three shots while he and another person tried to enter her house. Lafayette police Sgt. John Sellers said the woman and her two children safely made it…
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CU-Boulder football players charged with four counts each in theft case
The two University of Colorado football players accused of stealing items from a dorm room in April were each charged Wednesday with four counts, including three felonies. Nu’umoto “N.J.” Falo, 19, and Donald “Dino” Gordon, 20, were both charged with second-degree burglary, theft between $2,000 and $5,000, second-degree trespassing and possession of a controlled substance.…
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2 CU Buffs football players arrested, accused of stealing drugs, laptops
BOULDER — Two University of Colorado football players were arrested early this morning and have been suspended indefinitely from the team after campus police say they stole items from a dorm room in Willard Hall earlier this month. Nu’umoto “N.J.” Falo, 19, and Donald “Dino” Gordon, 20, were both booked into the Boulder County Jail…