Author: Kevin Vaughan
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Part 3: Blame: With husband dead, will questions surrounding killing of Jill Wells ever be answered?
Editor’s note: Blame is a collaboration between 9NEWS Denver and The Gazette. This is part 3 of 3. Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here. The investigation into the shooting death of Jill Wells remains open today. Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Nestor hopes that someone or some missing element will come forward or be presented…
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BLAME: After dubious initial investigation, sisters spur reopening of Colorado cold-case
Editor’s note: Blame is a three-part series collaboration between 9NEWS Denver and The Gazette. This is part 2 of 3. Read part 1 here. More than seven years after Jill Wells was killed, a backhoe tore into the earth in the Woodland Park Cemetery. The investigation into her death had been renewed. — Julie Evenson…
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BLAME: Accident or Murder? Questions abound in Colorado cold-case death
Editor’s note: Blame is a three-part series collaboration between 9NEWS Denver and The Gazette. Officially, the shooting death of Colorado Springs nurse Jill Wells almost 16 years ago was designated an accident. Mike Wells, Jill’s husband, told authorities that blame – tragic as it was – lay with the couple’s 6-year-old son. But a yearlong…
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Coming Sunday: BLAME – A mother’s death, a father’s secrets and a 6-year-old son left to take the blame
Editor’s note: Blame is a collaboration between 9News Denver and The Gazette. Officially, the shooting death of Colorado Springs nurse Jill Wells almost 16 years ago was designated an accident. Mike Wells, Jill’s husband, told authorities that blame – tragic as it was – lay with the couple’s 6-year-old son. But a yearlong investigation by…
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No easy cure for health disparities, expert says
Among the hurdles to attacking disparities in health between ethnic and racial minorities and whites are the reality that some inequities have defied explanation and the differing views on what constitutes “fairness.” That’s the assessment of Dr. Paula Braveman, a national expert who has done extensive work on health issues that disproportionately affect minority and…
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Losing Ground, Part 4: Stark disparities in health indicators
Lucero Barrios is Latina and a new mother — circumstances that place her squarely in a group of people affected by a shocking reality in Colorado: A Hispanic baby born in this state is 63 percent more likely than a white baby to die in the first year of life. The disparity is even more…
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Obama voters helped push marijuana measure to victory, experts say
President Barack Obama’s county-by-county victories in Colorado virtually mirrored the vote to legalize marijuana use in the state — in all but nine mostly rural counties, pot passed in places that supported the president’s re-election bid and failed in places that supported Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Only one county where the results were different —…
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Former sheriff charged with three felonies, one misdemeanor
Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan has been formally charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor stemming from his arrest this week, according to a spokesman for the state judiciary. A complaint and information filed today in Arapahoe District Court shows Sullivan charged with possession of methamphetamine, distribution of methamphetamine, attempting to influence a public…
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Colo. woman whose car crushed family of 5 in Thornton is charged
Almost exactly five years before her Ford Expedition launched off a median, crushed a pickup and killed five people, Monica Chavez lay in an emergency room after a seizurelike episode that led doctors to order her not to drive until she saw a neurologist. But by her own admission, Chavez never followed up with a…
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Officials, David Hartley’s family hedge on theory of mistaken identity
David Hartley’s father-in-law and the sheriff leading the investigation into his death on Falcon Reservoir cast doubt Thursday on speculation that the former Colorado man may have been a victim of mistaken identity. But they also couldn’t completely rule out speculation from a Texas intelligence think tank, which reported that it had sources who believe…