Tag: Weld County
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Colorado No. 1 in U.S. for West Nile
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The West Nile virus stuck it to Colorado this year. Thanks to perfect mosquito breeding conditions during Colorado’s abnormally wet spring and a dry summer, the virus hit Coloradans harder this season than it has since the illness first emerged here 20 years ago. Since…
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Colorado’s first detection of West Nile Virus reported on eve of holiday weekend
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Talk about holiday buzz kill. The type of mosquito which carries the West Nile Virus is flourishing, thanks to Colorado’s record-setting wet spring and early summer, which was followed by warm temperatures. Culex mosquitoes are multiplying “like the fluffs on a dandelion head,” according to one Metropolitan State University biologist. And on the eve of…
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Greeley teen charged as adult after 15-year-old ex-girlfriend shot, killed
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A 16-year-old Greeley boy is being charged as an adult after allegedly shooting and killing his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend. Jovanni Sirio-Cardona was charged with first-degree murder, and other felony counts, following the June 16 shooting death of Lily Silva-Lopez, 15. Greeley Police officers responded to the shooting at a trailer home at 435 N. 35th Avenue…
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Greeley police officer cleared by grand jury for fatal shooting
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A grand jury in Weld County has decided not to indict a Greeley police officer for fatally shooting a man on Nov. 8 after a standoff. Seth Luedtke, part of the Greeley Police Department’s SWAT team, shot Benjamine Weise seven times in the head and…
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Colorado Economic Development Commission approves $14 million in incentives
Five companies could potentially bring nearly 1,300 new jobs across Colorado with economic development incentives to entice them. The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Economic Development Commission Thursday approved just over $14 million in economic incentives for five companies identified only by project names to keep the company’s names secret during negotiations. …
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Man who shot at Longmont Police sentenced to 60 years in prison
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man who shot at Longmont Police in early 2022 while trying to flee was sentenced to 60 years in prison, according to a news release from Boulder County prosecutors Monday. On Jan. 13, 2022, Longmont Police came under fire as they attempted to arrest…
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No ‘red flag’ order sought despite earlier threats by man in murder-suicide outside Jehovah Witnesses worship hall
The man who killed his wife and then himself on Christmas Day outside a Jehovah’s Witnesses worship hall, which he tried to blow up with pipe bombs, made shooting and bomb threats to family members and businesses more than a year earlier. Enoch Apodaca, 46, possessed guns, had been investigated before for bomb making and had…
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‘This is how innocent people are convicted,’ defendant alleges wrongful conviction to Supreme Court
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When police arrested Nora Hilda Rios-Vargas for the burglary of a Weld County trailer home where someone had stolen $15,000 in jewelry and $3,000 in coins, there was only one definitive piece of evidence linking her to the crime scene: shards of a bloody latex glove with her DNA on it. At the same time,…
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ENDORSEMENT: Buck the insanity by re-electing Buck
Colorado’s Congressional District 4 provides an alternative to the weird and dangerous environments found throughout areas of Colorado controlled by politicians who decriminalize dangerous drugs and dramatically reduce punishments for crimes. District 4, comprising most of Colorado east of the Front Range, preserves a way of life that used to define Colorado — thanks in…