Former Colorado state transportation auditor pleads guilty to charges
DENVER – Former Colorado Department of Transportation audit director Chris Wedor has pleaded guilty to identity theft and forgery but is not expected to serve time behind bars.
KCNC-TV reports that Wedor pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to one count of felony identity theft and one misdemeanor count of forgery.
Wedor was fired in December 2016 after the department found irregularities in expenditures connected to the use of state credit cards. He was originally charged with 17 felonies for accusations that he spent about $29,000 of state money on personal expenses.
Prosecutor Joseph Morales says the district attorney’s office agreed to allow Wedor to serve two years unsupervised probation on the forgery count and a two-year deferred judgment on the felony charge.
Wedor will repay the department about $34,000.
House Ethics Committee to begin hearing on Weinberg complaint
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 3 hours ago
The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday will begin a hearing requested by Rep. Ron Weinberg, R-Loveland, tied to an ethics complaint filed against him by Rep. Brandi Bradley, R-Roxborough Park. The ethics committee had found probable cause on two issues...
Iran war enters next phase of destroying entire missile supply chain: Hegseth
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 4 hours ago
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the war with Iran was entering a new phase, as the United States was focusing on destroying Tehran’s defense industrial base. At a Friday Pentagon briefing, Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint...
Colorado plans to slash interim committee work amid budget woes
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 13 minutes ago
In a tight budget year, the work of interim committees — those off-session groups that look at transportation, agriculture, water, healthcare, wildfires, pensions, and anything else that lawmakers want to look at — is on the chopping block. And this...
Xcel Energy: Power shutoff ‘likely’ Saturday in Boulder, Jefferson counties
Dan Boniface
dan.boniface@denvergazette.com
Updated 11 minutes ago
Up to 43,000 residents in parts of Boulder and Jefferson counties should be prepared to have their power shut off Saturday afternoon, Xcel Energy said. The power company said it was “planning for a likely Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS)...
Colorado GOP chair Brita Horn says she’ll resign next month, points to ‘divide within our party’
Ernest Luning
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Updated 20 hours ago
Colorado Republican Party Chair Brita Horn said Thursday that she will resign her position next month following the GOP’s state assembly, citing what she described as an “enduring divide” within the party “marked by vitriol and hostility.” Horn’s announcement came...
Colorado justices skeptical of appellate court’s limitation on prosecution’s appeal
Michael Karlik
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Updated 1 day ago
The Colorado Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Tuesday that Denver prosecutors should be barred from appealing a trial judge’s permanent dismissal of a criminal case, based upon the sequence of events after the original ruling. Prosecutors charged Quinn M. Jebe...
Senate committee moves forward with Colorado ballot measure to redirect TABOR refunds to schools
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
A Senate panel on Thursday voted along party lines to move forward with a bill that would ask voters for permission to eliminate Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds and redirect those dollars to K-12 public education. The 6-3 vote in...
Federal judge: Government violated order shielding man from deportation in ‘one-off mistake’
Michael Karlik
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Updated 1 day ago
A federal judge acknowledged on Thursday that the government violated his order by deporting a man in immigration detention during his pending court case, but it “serves nobody’s interests” to require the government to return him. On Feb. 18, Tesfami...
Wolf depredation payouts in Colorado top $700,000 in 2025
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission approved more than $706,000 in wolf depredation claims for 2025 during its March meeting last week, an amount that exceeds the state’s annual wolf compensation fund by more than double. The commission rejected another...
U.S. intelligence report suggests Iranian regime is not at risk of imminent collapse
Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner
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Updated 1 day ago
Washington Examiner Recent U.S. intelligence reports have assessed that after nearly two weeks of Operation Epic Fury, Iran’s government leadership is not in danger of imminent collapse. The evaluation comes after 12 days of regular military strikes by United States...
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Colorado College strips Slocum dorm of name, citing century-old sexual misconduct
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