Author: DAVID MIGOYA [email protected]
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Prosecutor: No charges in amusement park death of 6-year-old; Parents lash out
The family of a 6-year-old Colorado Springs girl killed Labor Day weekend at a Glenwood Springs amusement park lashed out Wednesday at a prosecutor’s decision not to charge workers of the ride she died on with a crime, calling it “cheap and meaningless.” “Once again our daughter’s life has been treated as cheap and meaningless.…
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Year in review: Six probes launched after Colorado Supreme Court reports
At least six separate investigations were launched after the former chief administrator of the Colorado Supreme Court in February alleged in newspaper stories that another employee there was given a multimillion dollar contract to silence a threatened tell-all lawsuit about years of widespread misconduct in the Judicial Department. The allegations hinged on a two-page memo…
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$1.6 million payday for Polis friends: Free deal to help Colorado’s COVID-19 response ends up costing taxpayers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado paid more than $630,000 last year to a group of personal and business associates of Gov. Jared Polis that had ostensibly volunteered to help the state manage its way through the COVID-19 pandemic by tracking people’s movements, records show. Then, when that group’s work…
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Glenwood Caverns gets big fine following 6-year-old’s death
The state agency that licenses amusement park rides on Wednesday slapped $68,000 in fines against the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, where a 6-year-old Colorado Springs girl was killed over Labor Day weekend. Additionally, the Colorado Division of Oil and Public Safety’s amusement rides and devices program ordered the Haunted Mine Drop ride where Wongel Estifanos…