Author: Carol McKinley
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As Trump administration pauses military aid to Ukraine, Colorado nonprofit ramps up help
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As the Trump administration paused U.S. military aid to Ukraine and Russia advanced on more territory, a tiny nonprofit in Colorado Springs is ramping up reinforcement to Ukrainians, one family at a time. “It’s not stopping me,” said Yana Malyk, the Ukrainian woman who fled the country with her two teenage daughters in 2022 and…
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Denver strip clubs sue city officials over wage theft investigation
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In a civil rights lawsuit filed Friday, two Denver strip clubs claimed that Denver labor officials showed a “reckless abuse of power” when they launched a wage theft investigation into Diamond Cabaret and Rick’s Cabaret and Steakhouse which led to nearly $14 million in fines. The 62-page complaint by attorneys representing RCI Holdings alleges that the City and…
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DOGE reports termination of leases for 18 federal offices in Colorado
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The federal government has terminated the leases of nearly 750 federal offices across the country, including 18 in Colorado. The word came down from the General Services Administration (GSA) on Feb. 25. In a section called the “Wall of Receipts” on the Department of Government Efficiency website, nearly 10 million square feet of government real estate…
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1,000 people protest NOAA cuts in Boulder
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About a thousand people, many of them retirees who had worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gathered Monday in Boulder to protest last week’s firings of federal government employees. The protesters were at the intersection of Broadway Street and Rayleigh Road, near the NOAA office in Boulder. A group of armed guards kept…
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Auditor finds Denver strip clubs owe $14M over stolen wages
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Two of Denver’s most popular strip clubs must pay $14 million in penalties and back pay over stolen wages in what Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien described as one of the most “extraordinary cases he’s ever conducted.” The clubs, he added, “violated almost every provision.” Denver Labor Executive Director Matt Fritz-Mauer said that the allegations are…
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Former Fort Carson soldier set for deportation removed from Aurora facility
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At 5 a.m. Thursday, things got real for Jose Barco. Just before daybreak, he was rousted out of his bunk at the Aurora Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center and whisked off in a van bound for Denver International Airport. He was allowed to bring the clothes he was wearing and his Venezuelan birth certificate. …
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Second trial of suspect in Christian Glass death nears end
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Closing arguments begin Wednesday afternoon in the second trial of a former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputy charged with murdering a man who was having a mental health breakdown outside of Silver Plume. Both sides ended their cases Tuesday, leaving the jury to decide after closing arguments Wednesday whether Andrew Buen felt a fellow responding…
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Aurora dentist offered $20,000 to kill lead detective on case
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James Craig, an Aurora dentist accused of poisoning his wife, tried to get a cellmate to kill “the worst, dirtiest detective in the world,” according to testimony in an evidentiary hearing Friday. That officer, Aurora police detective Bobbi Jo Olson, has led the investigation of the alleged murder of Craig’s wife. Last November, two weeks before…
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From big-city attorney to Colorado ranch hand helping save 200 horses from a wildfire
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Ami Cullen is more at home on a Colorado dude ranch in her muddy work boots than she was in a courtroom. On an unusually warm February day on Granby’s C Lazy U ranch she saddled up her horse, Squirt — a palomino gelding with a silver mane and tail she “typically uses for the…
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Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the U.S.
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Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served two tours in Iraq during some of the most intense fighting but later served time for a felony conviction, has become a casualty of a different kind of war. At an immigration hearing Wednesday morning, he told Assistant Immigration Judge…