englewood
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Englewood police should return defendant’s $160.15 in cash, appeals court says
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed last month that Englewood police need to give a defendant back the $160 in cash they seized at the time of his 2004 arrest, and a trial judge must evaluate whether other personal items should also be returned to Gabriel Esparza. An Arapahoe County jury convicted Esparza in 2005 of killing his wife,…
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Judge finds no constitutional violation by Englewood officer who arrested man filming encounter
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A federal judge concluded on Thursday that an Englewood police officer did not violate the constitutional rights of a man by arresting him after he attempted to video record the officer from a public sidewalk. Five months ago, the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over Colorado recognized for the first time that the First Amendment…
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Judge grants immunity to officers who killed, wounded vehicle occupants in car chase
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A late-night vehicle pursuit through Littleton, Englewood and Denver that left a driver partially paralyzed and a passenger dead has now culminated in a federal judge’s decision to grant immunity to the police officers involved. There was no caselaw, Rodriguez concluded, labeling the officers’ use of force unconstitutional “in the context of a car chase…
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Englewood receives $38 million loan from Environmental Protection Agency to improve drinking water
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The city of Englewood will receive a second loan from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to support the city’s drinking water initiative. The $38 million is funded through the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, a federal program that aims to accelerate investment in the water infrastructure through long-term and low-cost supplemental credit…
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‘Agree to disagree’: Students weigh in on appeals court cases argued at Denver school
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The state’s second-highest court issued a pair of noteworthy decisions last week: One involving a golf course injury and the other delving into a trespassing incident in subfreezing temperatures. But what distinguished these cases from the 2,000 others filed with the Court of Appeals each year was the fact that a few dozen high school students…
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Englewood councilwoman survives $15,000 recall try
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A special recall election that 9News says cost Englewood taxpayers $15,000 failed to remove a city councilwoman. Unofficial results of Tuesday’s election in the Denver-area suburb showed that a proposal to recall Councilwoman Laurett Barrentine was defeated, with 734 no votes to 688 yes votes. As Marshall Zelinger of 9News reported last month, recall advocates…
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Englewood spending $15,000 on a special recall election
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The city of Englewood faces a sudden expenditure that has nothing to do with fixing the stormwater system that was overwhelmed by last month’s rains. Next week, voters in the south Denver suburb will get a special-election recall ballot in the mail. Councilwoman Laurett Barrentine is facing a recall effort from a group that collected…
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More fire stations needed in NE Denver, audit finds
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A lack of fire stations in the Northeast Denver fire district that caused slow response times, a staffing shortage and a growing population that led to an increase in calls for service for the Denver Fire Department were issues cited in a city audit report. Fire officials were aware of the slow response time issue…
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In crucial state Senate race, Doty and Kagan pitch the middle
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On the front porches of Colorado Senate District 26, people want to talk about the presidential election pitting Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton, of course. Many of the residents don’t know that the race to fill the seat of outgoing Democratic state Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, could well decide whether Democrats win a majority in the state’s…
