A federal appeals court has ruled that qualified immunity does not apply to protect a former deputy district attorney from being personally sued. The claim against the deputy district attorney arises from her approval of a search warrant of a student journalist's home due to a professor's unhappiness over a parody in a University of Northern Colorado community newspaper, the Howling Pig.
Denver police are cracking down on drivers who make illegal lane changes and cut in line on the interstate. Beginning the initiative, police focused on Interstate 225 at the DTC Boulevard exit, giving 56 tickets on Tuesday morning. Most of the tickets were issued to drivers making illegal lane changes that cut off backed-up traffic. Some tickets were also given to drivers passing on the right shoulder.
This November, California voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana. Polls indicate it will pass.
The FBI reports that more than 850,000 people were arrested on pot charges last year, 90 percent of them for possession. In the US, we spend between $10 billion and $15 billion enforcing these laws.
Even if your doctor is drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, don't expect the local medical community to blow the whistle. A new survey finds that many American physicians fail to report troubled colleagues to authorities, believing that someone else will take care of it, that nothing will happen if they act or that they could be targeted for retribution, according to a new study headed by the Harvard Medical School.
Earlier this month, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital after he nearly drowned in an apartment pool. The boy was playing in an apartment pool in Lakewood, with others when bystanders noticed he was unresponsive. The bystanders pulled him from the pool and administered CPR. He had a pulse when he arrived at the hospital, after West Metro firefighters responded to the scene.
A truck driver from Illinois will face negligent homicide and other charges after parking on the shoulder around a curve and forcing a traffic situation that caused a fatality on Interstate 70 in Mesa County last Tuesday. The driver placed put reflective emergency triangles on the interstate two miles east of Debeque at about 2 p.m. after his truck broke down. That forced a car driver to swerve her vehicle into another lane, where it was struck.
Dozens of bicyclists rode to the state Capitol Tuesday at a rally hosted by Bicycle Colorado to protest Black Hawk's ban on bicycling through most of the town's roads, the only such ban in the state. The roads in Black Hawk's historic mining district are narrow and shoulderless. According to Black Hawk city officials, during summer months 30,000 motorists use its roads each day.
