Tag: Weld County
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Remembering Colorado’s Flight 629
Half-a-century before 9/11 and decades prior to the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, there was United Airlines Flight 629. The sabotage of The Denver Mainliner was America’s first confirmed targeting of a civilian aircraft and it happened over a southwestern Weld County sugar beet field. The six square miles of farmland…
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Weld County Coroner says six Prospect Valley Dairy victims died from hydrogen sulfide exposure
The Weld County Coroner confirmed Thursday that six people died on a dairy farm in August from exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas. The the report, as stated in a Thursday afternoon news release, confirmed what officials initially suspected to be a fatal gas exposure when the six people were found dead in an enclosed space…
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Federal judge finds fire chief violated due process rights of ex-employee in Boulder-Weld district
A federal judge concluded last week that the chief of a fire protection district spanning Boulder and Weld counties violated the constitutional rights of an employee by terminating him through a process that lacked sufficient procedural protections. However, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer also determined plaintiff Benjamin Carter could not prevail on…
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Republican state lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer set to launch campaign for Colorado governor
Republican state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer filed paperwork Monday to run to be Colorado’s next governor, making the Brighton lawmaker’s long-anticipated campaign official. Kirkmeyer, who lost a close race for Congress in 2022, plans to make a formal announcement Tuesday evening in Fort Lupton, her campaign said in a release. The 66-year-old dairy farmer and fourth-generation…
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6 found dead at Weld County dairy operation
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Six people were found dead Wednesday evening at a dairy operation in Weld County, according to a Southeast Weld Fire District news release. Fire crews were dispatched to the dairy operation in the 32000 block of Weld County Road 18, just east of Keenesburg, at…
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Weld County commissioners decide to keep courthouse in downtown Greeley
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The new Weld County judicial center will remain in downtown Greeley, around one block from its former location. The Weld County Board of Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved the location of a new judicial center and a future administrative center with an estimated cost of…
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Denver man sentenced to 48 years in prison after 100,000 fentanyl pills were seized
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A Denver man will spend the next several decades in prison for his part in a major Northern Colorado drug trafficking ring. Colorado State Troopers pulled over Miguel Gutierrez-Heredia, in Fruita, Colorado on March 26th, 2024, for driving 98 mph in a 75 mph speed zone, according to a news release from the 19th Judicial…
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Four tractor-trailers burned in Weld County truck stop fire
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Multiple tractor-trailers were damaged Wednesday night in a fire at a truck stop in Weld County. Mountain View Fire Rescue said crews were called around 9:50 p.m. for a report of a commercial vehicle fire at a truck stop along Colorado Highway 119, just west…
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Greeley man indicted in connection to teen’s murder
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Weld County grand jury indicted a 20-year-old man Tuesday in connection to the murder of a 19-year-old man in 2021. The jury found enough evidence to charge Moises Rodriguez-Nunez with first-degree murder in the Oct. 9, 2021 death of Jacob Fooshee in Greeley, according to…
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Colorado’s new economic and cultural hot spot? Believe it or not, it’s Greeley
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GREELEY — John Hall couldn’t be certain, but he had a hunch, an intuition, so to speak, as to how things might play out in front of the Greeley City Council on April 15. Sitting behind his desk on a late spring Friday morning, the then…