Author: Steven K. Paulson
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Colo. task force studying oil and gas rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — Faced with conflicting duties between state and local governments over the development of oil and gas resources, Gov. John Hickenlooper is asking industry and government officials to come up with recommendations on ways…
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Colo. task force studying oil and gas rules
DENVER — Faced with conflicting duties between state and local governments over the development of oil and gas resources, Gov. John Hickenlooper is asking industry and government officials to come up with recommendations on ways to resolve the conflict. A task force formed by Hickenlooper met Friday to see whether members can come to some…
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Denver news anchor bit in face by dog, hospitalized
DENVER — An 85-pound Argentine mastiff dog dramatically rescued a day earlier from an icy lake was impounded Wednesday after viciously biting a Denver television news anchor on her face during a live in-studio segment. Kyle Dyer was conducting an interview on the rescue of Gladiator Maximus, also known as Max, after the dog fell…
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Columbine principal talked to Utah bomb suspect
DENVER — Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis says he will no longer do interviews for visitors about the 1999 mass shootings at his school unless they are cleared by security. DeAngelis told The Associated Press on Friday he’s changing his policy after learning that a Utah student who visited him in December to talk…
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Aurora man arrested on terrorism charges
AURORA — The FBI arrested a refugee from Uzbekistan at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on charges that he planned to travel overseas to fight for a terrorist group and give up his life if necessary, an official said Monday. However, there was no evidence that suspect Jamshid Muhtorov was plotting attacks inside the United States, authorities…
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Grower linked to listeria fined on migrant housing
DENVER — A Colorado cantaloupe grower who was implicated following an outbreak of listeria that killed 30 people last year was fined by the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday for failing to provide safe migrant worker housing. The federal agency said grower Eric Jensen rented migrant workers unsanitary, overcrowded rooms at a motel he…
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Nicknames bring instant fame – and a quick trip to jail
DENVER — Super Sleuth got 18 months in prison after a bank manager in Colorado Springs recognized his description from three previous bank robberies. Tom Thumb got 14 years after the FBI and Colorado police alerted the public that a man with a thumb bandage was wanted for bank robbery. The Shaggy Bandit got three…
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Supporters of wilderness bill say meeting stacked
DENVER — Colorado Democratic state party chair Rick Palacio says Republican congressman Scott Tipton is trying to pack a town hall meeting in Ridgeway with opponents of a federal wilderness bill to keep out supporters of the plan. Palacio cites an email obtained by The Associated Press from Ouray (yoo-RAY’) County GOP chair Jim Buske…
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Colorado farm says Listeria found in cantaloupe
DENVER — The Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to eat cantaloupes from a southeastern Colorado farm after investigators found a contaminated melon in a store, the first time Listeria has been linked to cantaloupe in the U.S. Jensen Farms spokeswoman Amy Philpott said Thursday one of the farm’s Rocky Ford cantaloupes tested…
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Experts: Most Coloradans unprepared for quakes
DENVER — Most Coloradans are unprepared for an earthquake even though officials have spent years studying the consequences of a big one and have identified as many as 100 fault lines across the state, emergency planners say. Earthquakes here are infrequent, and residents understandably are more concerned about wildfires and floods, said Anne Sheehan, a…