Author: Christopher Osher chris.osher@gazette.com
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Corrections department bows to criticism and rescinds new no-crime charge policy for escapes from halfway houses
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Department of Corrections has rescinded a new policy barring parole officers from seeking criminal charges for escapes from community-corrections halfway houses after law enforcement officials, prosecutors and halfway house operators criticized the policy as jeopardizing public safety. State corrections officials reversed course at…
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Longmont police leave disabled woman with nearly $1,600 toll bill after using her stolen license plate
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A 52-year-old Westminster woman with back problems faces $1,592.72 in E-470 toll charges because the president of the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, who also headed the narcotics unit of the Longmont Police Department, used a stolen license plate that comes back as registered to…
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Colorado’s troubled partnership with California COVID-19 testing firm
Colorado paid more than $89.2 million to a coronavirus testing provider run by an ambitious 25-year-old entrepreneurial college dropout in California. But state officials abruptly severed ties with the company after federal regulators warned that those officials allowed improper use of the test in nursing homes with some of the highest death rates in the…
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Controversial granite quarry near Colorado Springs has rights transfer rejected
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The staff of the Colorado State Land Board on Tuesday dealt a blow to an effort to renew plans for a controversial granite quarry on a ranch just south of Colorado Springs. Cindi Allmendinger, the…
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Anadarko whistleblower at the center of massive investor fraud lawsuit finding new life in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Executives with Anadarko Petroleum, the largest oil and gas driller in Colorado over the last decade, cashed out millions of dollars in stock holdings while suppressing internal reports from company engineers who warned they were misleading investors about the value of a new oil field…
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Colorado board that writes rules for management of sex offenders rife with conflicts, state audit finds
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of a state board that writes the rules for how Colorado sex offenders are supervised voted on policy revisions that benefited their firms, which held state contracts worth millions of dollars annually, according to a scathing performance audit the state auditor released Tuesday. The…
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‘Backdoor’ lobbying effort to kill Hitch Rack Ranch quarry in El Paso County may have violated law
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Officials in then Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration helped an influential Colorado Springs nonprofit privately lobby a member of the state mining board to kill plans for a granite quarry, setting up a secret briefing that legal experts described as a potential violation of state law…
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‘Backdoor’ lobbying effort to kill quarry in El Paso County may have violated law
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Officials in then Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration helped an influential Colorado Springs nonprofit privately lobby a member of the state mining board to kill plans for a granite quarry, setting up a secret briefing that legal experts described as a potential violation of state law…
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Lawsuit targets coach, USA Swimming in sex assault of 12-year-old girl; trial set this week
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A girl testified last week that the ongoing sexual assaults her swim coach began inflicting on her when she was just 12 robbed her of her dreams of becoming an elite swimmer and left her…