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White House compares recreational pot to opioid crisis, says DOJ will be ‘taking action’
WASHINGTON – White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at Thursday’s daily press briefing that he expects the Department of Justice will be “taking action” against states that have legalized recreational marijuana, and at the same time seemingly compared recreational use to the nationwide opioid crisis.
“There’s a big difference between [medical] and recreational marijuana,” Spicer said. “And I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people.” Continue reading
Colo. Bureau of Investigation hands Holly Moore case back to Castle Rock, concurs death was suicide
Nearly two years ago, Holly Moore was found dead, hanging by her neck from an electrical cord in a closet at her Castle Rock apartment. The Douglas County Coroner’s Office ruled her death a suicide.
But Moore’s family has always maintained she was murdered, saying that police botched the scene, failed to collect evidence and rushed to the judgment that she had killed herself. Continue reading
Denver Sheriff: Not releasing Mexican national now accused of murder would’ve violated Constitution
DENVER – The Denver Sheriff’s Department says that it would have violated the Fourth Amendment had it held a Mexican citizen now accused of murder without a warrant following an arrest last year.
Ever Valles, 19, was booked into the Denver jail on aggravated auto theft and vehicular eluding charges last October, and was released Dec. 20 after posting a $5,000 bond. Continue reading
Colorado’s senators split votes on controversial EPA nominee Scott Pruitt, who is confirmed
WASHINGTON – Colorado’s U.S. senators split their votes on the president’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who was confirmed by the Senate in a 52-46 vote.
Pruitt, who has been Oklahoma’s attorney general since he was elected in 2010, has faced scrutiny over his ties to the oil and gas industry and has filed 14 lawsuits against the EPA over water and air pollution regulations over his career. Continue reading
Project Unsolved: Investigators seek new tips in 2000 murders of two young Columbine students
Frisbees sailed off a Colorado mountainside last weekend – a symbolic gesture to remember two young lovers killed 17 years ago to the day in a Littleton sandwich shop, their murderer never found.
Stephanie Grizzell, 16, and Nick Kunselman, 15, met in middle school and became fast friends. After fellow students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their high school, Columbine, in April 1999 and killed 12 of their classmates and a teacher, they became even closer, according to Stephanie’s mother, Kelly Grizzell. Continue reading
Undocumented Colorado mother of 3 U.S. citizens on deportation fight: ‘It will not end today’
DENVER — The fight of one undocumented mother living in Colorado escalated Wednesday after she fled to a Denver church to avoid immigration officials who are now seeking to deport her.
“It will not end today,” Jeanette Vizguerra proudly said to the applause of her supporters. She spoke in her native tongue of Spanish to explain why she is fighting to remain in the U.S., despite efforts to deport her. Continue reading
Colorado Congressmen call for Flynn’s resignation if he misled administration over Russia call
UPDATE (9:15 p.m.): Gen. Michael Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Monday night, saying he “inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador.”
The full text of his resignation letter is embedded below, via TIME’s Zeke Miller: Continue reading
Colorado marijuana leader says dismantling of industry would cause a recession
DENVER – Despite new figures that show Colorado’s marijuana sales topped $1 billion for the first time ever last year, there is some concern in the state over what could happen to the burgeoning business under new U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Sessions is on record in the past saying that “Good people don’t smoke marijuana” and that “marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized” and that it is “a very real danger.” Continue reading
Unsolved: Questions abound 4 years after pregnant Denver woman disappeared in Pueblo
February 18 is typically a day for celebration for Laura Saxton. It’s her daughter’s birthday. But every year, two weeks earlier, she now marks another anniversary: the day that same daughter disappeared.
Kelsie Schelling was 21 years old and eight weeks pregnant when she vanished on Feb. 4, 2013. She had her first doctor’s visit and had seen a sonogram of her baby earlier that day. Continue reading
Praise and protests after Colorado’s senators split vote on successful DeVos confirmation
WASHINGTON – Colorado’s two senators split their votes, just as the rest of their Senate colleagues did, in Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ confirmation hearing.
Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote to confirm the controversial DeVos after the Senate’s vote ended in a 50-50 split. Continue reading