A nine-month-old baby boy died in a car accident near Glenwood Springs this week when he was ejected from his car seat. Colorado State Patrol investigators believe the parents did not want to wake the baby up and had left him in the baby seat without the straps buckled around him.
Last week, the Justice Department issued a letter to chief justices and state court administrators to help clarify the obligation "to provide oral interpretation, written translation and other language services to people who are limited English proficient (LEP);" all courts that receive federal financial assistance must provide such services.
A Boulder climber was airlifted to a Denver hospital after falling about 120 feet from a rock formation and landing in the middle of the westbound lane of Boulder Canyon Drive last Tuesday evening, according to sheriff's deputies.
An Iowa egg producer is recalling 228 million eggs after being linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning. Colorado is one of the states in which the suspect eggs were distributed.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about 200 cases of the strain of salmonella linked to the eggs were reported weekly during June and July, four times the normal number of such occurrences.
Over a dozen people, including toddlers and grandparents, required medical treatment for minor to moderate injuries after a small amusement park train tipped over. The accident happened Wednesday at Tiny Town, a long-time favorite tourist spot where a child-size replica of an Old West offers low-tech fun.
Many new laws take effect this Wednesday, including ones requiring that people who bury human bodies in private cemeteries must file the location with the county clerk, allowing seniors to buy a lifetime state parks pass and prohibiting retailers from charging service fees for gift cards. Additionally, a measure allowing Colorado State Fairgoers to carry around an alcoholic beverage and another that inserts the word "people" in some legislation instead of using stigmatizing labels are among 165 new laws going into effect Wednesday.
As a lawyer, each election year I am asked by friends about the judges on the ballot, due to a lack of knowledge most folks have no idea whether to vote to retain a judge. Now, The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, the Colorado Bar Association, the Colorado Judicial Institute, and the League of Women Voters of Colorado, have teamed up to provide website that goes a long way toward create helping Colorado voters make informed decisions about the judges on the ballot.
A 15-month-old baby died this weekend after falling two stories through a balcony railing. The little died Friday night after falling two stories from an indoor balcony outside a laundry room at the apartment complex at 2010 Carmel Drive.
Errant fireworks and mosquito attacks are not the only threats in July. Two months ago, a study by UC San Diego researchers reported a 10 percent increase nationally in medication errors that killed patients during the month of July. This may seem inexplicable but for the fact that July is the traditional start date for new residents. The spike is prominent in counties with teaching hospitals, and is not repeated in any other month. The analysis was based on more than two decades of death certificate information
