Category — Denver, Colorado

Boulder police want help finding a man accused of attacking another man outside a bar.

One ticket matched all five of the numbers drawn Wednesday to win the Cash 5 jackpot worth $20,000, the Colorado Lottery said. The randomly selected numbers were 5, 6, 7, 14 and 19. No information was immediately available about where the winning ticket was purchased.

The Lotto jackpot was expected to grow to an estimated $1.7 million for Saturday since the midweek drawing went off without a grand prize winner, the Colorado Lottery said. The winning numbers Wednesday were 13, 26, 27, 28, 34 and 35. Tickets matching all six numbers would have won or shared the jackpot worth $1.54 million.

A former Christian school principal acquitted last month of sex charges would like to “move on,” according to his attorney. A Jefferson County jury found former Silver State Christian School principal Daniel Brock not guilty of sex-related charges during a week-long trial in early February. Brock was accused of sexually touching one male student and attempting to fondle another male student.

A 20-year-old backcountry snowboarder has died in an avalanche near Loveland Pass, about a mile west of Arapahoe Basin ski area. Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson said the slide happened at about 3 p.m. Two other snowboarders who were behind and above the man survived the avalanche. The man’s name has not been released. Richardson said the man, an employee at Breckenridge Ski Resort, was …

It’s spring break time and for many college students that means a warm sandy beach. But for others it means a construction zone in Denver. Students from around the country have traded swimsuits for hardhats to help Habitat for Humanity.

Sgt. First Class Joe Kapacziewski’s 2005 injury in Iraq might have gotten the best of his right leg, but it certainly didn’t get the best of him. Kapacziewski, 27, is in town this week with the Vail Veterans Program, the local nonprofit that teaches injured war veterans how to ski and snowboard. Kapacziewski tried the program shortly after his injury, when he and doctors were still trying to …

He’s a piece of Pueblo history you’ve probably never heard about: Eugene “Gene” Polk Sr., proud father of five, grandfather of 11 and great-grandfather of one. And by the way, he was Pueblo’s first African-American firefighter in modern times, the only one since the 1800s. Polk, 59, lives a quieter life now, having retired with a bad knee and serving as assistant track coach at Dolores Huerta …

When he began, after high school and starting college, being a doctor was never on his mind. But then, neither was multiple sclerosis. For Dr. William Shaffer at North Colorado Medical Center, MS has become a large part of his life.

Workers began breaking up a huge boulder threatening to tumble down a cliff onto Interstate 70 in western Colorado on Wednesday, days after a rock slide that closed the highway indefinitely.

Traffic cameras that help catch motorists running red lights without the need for a police officer to stop a vehicle aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Pueblo Traffic Director Pepper Whittlef said the city has paid $90,000 to a private company to operate the three-camera system since it was installed in September while collecting only $70,000 in fines. In addition to the fee paid to American …

For years, Palisade peach grower John Cox barely got a response while advertising locally for temporary help to work his 30 acres. In 2008, for example, three local people called inquiring about work. And, in the years before that, he probably received a single inquiry each year. But all that changed last year when up to 35 local job seekers called in November in response to an ad.

Sgt. First Class Joe Kapacziewski’s 2005 injury in Iraq might have gotten the best of his right leg, but it certainly didn’t get the best of him. Kapacziewski, 27, is in town this week with the Vail Veterans Program, the local nonprofit that teaches injured war veterans how to ski and snowboard.

Hector “Pelon” Huerta’s whole body is a warning sign, intricately etched in prison ink. Clown demons, a menacing skull on top of his head, a prison watchtower and his gang name emblazoned in 3-inch-tall letters across his belly reflect his personality and declare his loyalty. “This is my whole life. I’ve got all my emotions here,” Huerta said proudly Thursday pointing at his bared chest in a …

An employee for Breckenridge Ski Resort has died in a back country avalanche.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter held his first news conference after his bike accident last week and says he’s in pain, but recovering.

Officials closed the ice skating rink at Keystone Lake after a Zamboni broke through the ice. The driver of the ice-grooming machine was not injured Tuesday and the Zamboni appeared to be working after crews fished it out of the hole in the ice. Keystone spokesman Ryan Whaley said they decided to close the rink because temperatures will likely be too warm by the time the hole is repaired.

A Senate committee has killed a bill that would have barred elected state officials and their employees from spending public money to promote themselves. The Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee rejected the measure, with members saying they saw no sign that the privileges were being abused.

At the state Capitol on Wednesday the group Americans for Prosperity protested what it calls out-of-control government spending.

People still looking for work after losing their jobs were hopeful as they attended a job fair at the Red Lion in Aurora Wednesday afternoon.

A portion of I-70 may reopen to traffic while repairs are underway on Interstate 70 after a rockslide Monday morning forced the highway to close. The Colorado Department of Transportation said it is possible that one lane in each direction of I-70 could reopen Wednesday night.

Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted only about a minute, she said, “so it was hard to say a lot.”

Colorado’s unemployment rate is up one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.4 percent. The state Department of Labor and Employment released seasonally adjusted figures for January on Wednesday. Donald Mares, director of the department, says Colorado’s unemployment rate may be volatile throughout 2010 but he expects it to improve.

Pueblo city officials say cameras that catch red light runners at two intersections have cost more to operate than they generate in fines. Pueblo pays $15,000 a month to American Traffic Solutions for the camera setups, or about $90,000 since they started operating in September. The city has collected about $70,000 in fines.

A lockdown for eight schools in Arapahoe County was lifted about 9:45  Wednesday morning because of a bank robbery in the area. The schools were put on a secure perimter lockdown as a precaution at 8:32 a.m.

A man with a hunting knife was shot and killed by Thornton police Wednesday morning. The shooting happened outside a home at 11664 Steele St. Police are also investigating a second scene at 120th and Colorado where a stolen van was set on fire.

Authorities say police shot and killed a burglary suspect after a confrontation in a Denver-area home. The suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, died at a hospital after the shooting early Wednesday in the north Denver suburb of Thornton. Police say the suspect was approaching two officers with his hand on a large knife in a sheath strapped to his side, and that he ignored orders to stop.

Longmont officials have granted a permit for a one-day Christian music festival that organizers say could draw up to 30,000 people to a park on the city’s east side. The permit was issued Tuesday for the Worship and the Word Movement to hold Heaven Fest at Union Reservoir on July 31. The permit also lets Heaven Fest use 70 acres of city-owned land adjacent to the park.

A Greeley man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a 2009 crash that killed one teenager and injured another. Twenty-nine-year-old Jorge Medrano-Bustamante was convicted in February on charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, leaving the scene, driving under the influence and permitting a vehicle to be operated unlawfully. He was sentenced Tuesday.

A federal appeals court in Denver will hear oral arguments on a ban on building new roads in national forests. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing a lawsuit filed by the state of Wyoming challenging the ban, known as the roadless rule. The 2001 rule applies to at least 40 million acres of land in several states.