Category: Colorado

IN-DEPTH: Sanctuary City Denver Scrambles for Resources Amid Surge of Illegal Immigrants

DENVER, Colo.—Pastor Bryan Sederwall, CEO of the Denver Dream Center, says he’s used to getting requests to meet the basic needs of the city’s homeless and less fortunate on short notice. City officials gave him just days to set up a temporary supply center for newly arrived asylum seekers from south of the U.S.-Mexico border….


Colorado Man Once Charged in Missing Wife’s Presumed Death Denies Involvement

DENVER—A man once charged with murder in the presumed death of his missing wife denied having anything to do with her disappearance in an interview broadcast this week. In the interview with “Good Morning America” aired on Monday, Barry Morphew said authorities in Colorado have been wrong to focus on him as the person responsible…


First Bus of Migrants Arrives in Colorado From Texas

The first group of illegal immigrants has been sent from Texas to Denver, Colorado, said the Lone Star State’s governor, Greg Abbott. Since April 2022, Texas has been busing illegal immigrants to Democrat-led jurisdictions to ease the pressure of illegal immigration. Abbott, a Republican, has repeatedly blamed the border crisis on the Biden administration. “Texas’…


Mountain Lion That Swatted 11-Year-Old Girl’s Cheek Killed in Colorado

BUENA VISTA, Colo.—In Colorado’s mountains, an 11-year-old girl went to check on the family’s chickens in their wooden hen house Wednesday only to find a mountain lion that swatted at her face, leaving a small puncture wound on her cheek, according to wildlife officials. The girl was treated and released from the hospital, and Colorado…


Parents Sue Colorado School Alleging It Secretly Recruited Kids for Gender and Sexuality Club

A pair of Colorado families have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against their children’s school district, alleging school officials secretly recruited their children for an after-school club focused on gender and sexual orientation. The lawsuit is being brought by the America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal on behalf of Johnathan and Erin Lee…


Colorado Woman Gets Life for Killing 11-Year-Old Stepson

DENVER—A judge sentenced a woman convicted of killing her 11-year-old stepson in Colorado and dumping his body over a bridge in Florida to life in prison without parole on Monday, calling her claim that she was insane and that one of her other personalities killed him a disservice to those who are mentally ill. Earlier…


Unusual Water Attraction Rising at Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes

By Seth Boster From The Gazette Colorado Springs—It’s about time to chart a course to southern Colorado, where an unusual phenomenon occurs only this time of year across one of the state’s most unusual landscapes. As snow melts from the mountains, Medano Creek has started its annual rise at Great Sand Dunes National Park and…


Colorado Teachers’ Union Passes Anti-Capitalist Resolution, Sparking Outcry From Republicans

Two Republican members of Colorado’s U.S. House delegation—Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn—have criticized the state’s teachers’ union for the passage of an anti-capitalist resolution at its recent assembly. In an email to the education publication The Lion, the Colorado Education Association (CEA) belatedly admitted last week to the passage of a resolution on April 22…


Metal Ductwork Collapses, Injures 6 at Colorado Resort Pool

AURORA, Colo.—Six people were hurt—two critically—when part of a heating and ventilation system collapsed at a resort pool in Colorado on Saturday, fire officials said. There were 50 to 100 guests in the pool when the collapse occurred about 9:50 a.m. at the Gaylord Rockies resort near Denver International Airport, Aurora Fire Rescue said. Large…


Denver City Councilmember Wants to Tax White-Owned Businesses

Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca (D) spoke out and called on the Colorado government to increase taxes on white-owned businesses and give that money to black- and brown-owned businesses as a form of reparations. CdeBaca attended the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance Forum on Thursday and believes that “capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen…