Tag: weld county
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Lauren Boebert finishes in middle of the pack in straw poll at inaugural GOP primary debate
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s middling finish in a straw poll Thursday night drew gasps from the crowd that had just witnessed the Colorado lawmaker face off against eight other Republicans in a congressional primary debate at a rec center in Fort Lupton. The headline-grabbing incumbent’s performance in the decidedly non-scientific survey – Boebert landed in…
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Appeals court finds no racial discrimination in jury selection for Weld, Adams County trials
Colorado’s second-highest court last month concluded prosecutors in Weld and Adams counties did not purposefully remove multiple Hispanic jurors from a pair of criminal trials because of their race or ethnicity. Under longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, intentional race-based discrimination in jury selection is unconstitutional. If a prosecutor tries to dismiss a juror of color,…
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Weld County defendant need not turn over ‘all evidence’ of other suspect, Colorado justices rule
A Weld County judge went too far when he ordered the defendant in a murder case to reveal to the prosecution “all evidence” implicating another suspect, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, while acknowledging some information-sharing is nonetheless appropriate. For more than 40 years, the 1979 murder of Evelyn “Kay” Day in Greeley went unsolved.…
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Appeals court upholds ejection of disruptive observer from livestream of criminal trial
Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last month that ejecting a disruptive observer from the livestream of a criminal trial will not typically violate the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a public trial. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals considered for the first time whether a Weld County judge effectively “closed” his courtroom mid-trial by banning…
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WATCH: Train crashes into Platteville police vehicle with suspect inside
A suspect detained in the back of a Platteville police vehicle was struck by a train the evening of Sept. 16 in Weld County
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Weld County sheriff’s deputies search for armed prowler
This security footage released to the media by the Weld County Sheriff’s office shows a man caught on camera trespassing vehicles and peering into a home in Keenesburg while armed with a rifle or possibly a shotgun. (Courtesy video)
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NEWS | Body camera footage of Greeley police officer using chokehold on man during arrest
Body camera footage of Greeley police arresting a man in June was released Friday showing an officer putting the man in a chokehold, after a judge sided with a coalition of news outlets over the disclosure of the video. (Video provided by the Weld County District Attorney)
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These twin buttes surprise on the prairie of northeastern Colorado
WELD COUNTY • A man is more than 100 miles and seemingly a whole world away from his home city of Denver. He drove north and far east to get here, the mountains like a hazy mirage in his rearview window and Colorado’s opposite landscape widening ahead: all prairie and sky. The man has reached…
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These twin buttes surprise on the prairie of northeastern Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sights and sounds from the Pawnee Buttes on Colorado’s northeast plains. (Video by Seth Boster) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “LIFE | The Pawnee Buttes”, “description”: “Sights and sounds from the Pawnee Buttes on Colorado’s northeast plains. (Video by Seth Boster)”, “thumbnailUrl”: “https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/gazette.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/b0/1b06138d-140c-55ca-a3dd-504485e75ff3/60e8870f286fa.image.jpg”, “uploadDate”:…
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Colorado mosquitos test positive for West Nile virus
Mosquitos collected in Weld County tested positive for the West Nile Virus, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Thursday, marking the first confirmed case of the disease so far this season statewide, the department reported. The infected mosquitos were discovered during a weekly mosquito testing for West Nile virus that began in…