Author: Colleen Slevin
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Alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear won’t be forcibly medicated for now
DENVER — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people in 2015 at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic because it offered abortion services will not be forcibly medicated as he appeals a federal judge’s order allowing the involuntary treatment. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that involuntary medication was the…
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Alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear can be forcibly medicated, judge says
DENVER — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services can be forcibly medicated to try to make him competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Monday. The prosecution of Robert Lewis Dear, Jr., 64, has stalled because he…
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Judge throws out Tina Peters’ recount challenge in Colorado
A judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a primary election recount lost by a Colorado county clerk who alleged “extensive malfeasance” during the June primary, in which she failed to become her party’s nominee for the state’s top election office. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters filed a lawsuit objecting to the methods used…
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Activist’s self-immolation stirs questions on faith, protest
Wynn Bruce, a 50-year-old climate activist and Buddhist, set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 22, prompting a national conversation about his motivation and whether he may have been inspired by Buddhist monks who self-immolated in the past to protest government atrocities. Bruce, a photographer from Boulder, walked up…
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Colorado Springs police seek motive in party shooting that killed 7
DENVER (AP) — A shooting at a birthday party inside a trailer park home in Colorado Springs that killed six people before the gunman took his own life stunned a state weary of gun violence just weeks after another Colorado mass shooting killed 10 people. Police on Monday were investigating what led the gunman, who…
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City marks anniversary of Elijah McClain’s death
In the year since Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from a store, the number of people calling for justice to be done in his case has grown to millions of people around the world. Like his family and activists who have been protesting over the…
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U.S. wants to return codebreaker’s seized items to U.K. school
DENVER • A U.S. woman who said she was visiting England to do a study of the late World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing walked into the prestigious boys’ boarding school he attended and asked to see a collection of his memorabilia. She was given a wooden box with items that once…
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Red flag petition filed against Colorado officer in fatal shooting
DENVER (AP) — A woman whose son was killed by Colorado State University police in 2017 is trying to have the guns of one of the officers involved confiscated under the state’s new red flag law, a move the sheriff calls a classic example of how the controversial law can be abused. In her Jan.…
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One-two punch of storms threatens Thanksgiving travel in U.S.
DENVER • Heavy snow and wind shut down highways Tuesday in Colorado and Wyoming, closed schools in Nebraska, and forced more than 1,000 travelers to sleep overnight in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled just as Thanksgiving travel moved into high gear. The storm was heading to South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and…
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Uber driver that shot passenger cleared of murder charges
DENVER — A Colorado jury has found an Uber driver not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of a passenger last year. Jurors on Thursday sided with 31-year-old Michael Hancock, who argued that he was defending himself against passenger Hyun (Huhn) Kim. Hancock had been charged with murder but said Kim made unwanted sexual…