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WEBA Colorado State Patrol trooper is recovering after he was shot in the arm during a shootout near Denver that left the gunman dead. The Denver Post reports Cpl. Tye Simcox was in his parked pickup in the center median of U.S. 36 on Saturday afternoon when a passing driver fired at him multiple times with a semi-automatic pistol.
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Moonlighting Cops: Frequently Allowed, Often Lightly Regulated
WEBJul 29, 2019 · Cleveland’s police policy manual includes department rules for secondary employment. Every job requires supervisor approval and officers are supposed to carry pepper spray and a taser. Officers aren’t allowed to work more than 16 hours, on-duty and off-duty combined, in a 24-hour period, according to department policy.
Five Years After Floods, Jamestown Is Finally Able To ‘Look …
WEBSep 12, 2018 · Five Years After Floods, Jamestown Is Finally Able To ‘Look Forward Again’. Tara Schoedinger sits in front of the Lower Main Street Bridge in Jamestown, Colo. Schoedinger is the town's flood recovery manager and was mayor during the September 2013 floods. In September 2013, historic flooding fundamentally changed Jamestown, …
After The Sun Goes Down - KUNC
WEBSep 13, 2021 · That changed after 1890, when people of color were “cold-shouldered and literally pushed out of county after county after county,” Loewen told the Mountain West News Bureau in June. As this map of confirmed and probable sundown towns reflects, 97 of the 112 counties shown here had at least one Black resident counted in the 1880 census.
Colorado's Nine Electoral College Electors Cast Votes For Joe …
WEBDec 14, 2020 · Jared Sutton of Greeley, Colo., one of Colorado’s nine Democratic presidential electors, takes the oath of office before he casts a vote for Joe Biden at the state Capitol on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in downtown Denver. The vote seals the win in Colorado for Biden, who defeated President Donald Trump by about 14 percentage …
Scientists map more than 100 big game migration routes across
WEBApr 18, 2022 · Scientists map more than 100 big game migration routes across the West. Elk are one of the big-game species featured in a new USGS report that maps migration routes used by ungulates across the western United States. As the West grows so does its infrastructure, but for elk, deer and other migrating big game, roads and housing …
After A Silent Year, Live Music Returns To Planet Bluegrass
WEBMay 20, 2021 · At Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, the sounds of “normal” began March 20 with Chris Thile. The singer-songwriter opened the venue’s new Spring Grass series. “We've never done this before,” Planet Bluegrass president Craig Ferguson said. “But this year, we had to. It just seemed that we were compelled by this year.”.
Tap water is cheap, but old pipes and a shrinking Colorado River
WEBOct 23, 2023 · That embrace of reuse technology is on display in Castle Rock, Colorado. The suburb between Denver and Colorado Springs has ranked among the fastest-growing cities in the nation. Between 2010 and 2020, the town’s population grew by nearly 52%, according to U.S. census data.At the same time, the aquifer – a pool of water that has …
'Bitterbrush' is a sweeping, meditative view of life on the range
WEBJun 24, 2022 · KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says Bitterbrush is a touching picture of solitude and the beauty of the natural world. Emelie Mahdavian ’s Bitterbrush, a portrait of two young women cow herders in Idaho, has been called a western. It has the basic elements of westerns – horses, a great western landscape and a couple of big sort-of …