America’s World War I draft lottery began as Secretary of War Newton Baker, wearing a blindfold, reached into a glass bowl and pulled out a capsule containing the number 258 during a ceremony in the Senate office building.
Immigrants held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Aurora detention facility no longer receive original copies of mail sent to them, and senders are seeing months-long delays in returned letters making their way back, advocacy organization Casa de Paz says.
Health officials advise people to stay indoors — and to take steps to keep the air in your home clean.
Growth has slowed on many wildfires burning across Colorado, but crews are still working to secure the fires’ perimeters.
The proclamation comes almost exactly 20 years after “No Cruising” signs were installed around Longmont following the city’s 2006 ordinance prohibiting drivers from passing the same traffic control point more than three times in the same direction within three hours.
A beef processing plant in Fort Morgan that employs more than 20% of the town’s population has remained largely dark since Cargill halted production in April, then locked out its unionized workforce in May amid contentious contract negotiations.
A Nicaraguan man arrested in Dillon, Colorado, died by suicide in a Mississippi immigration detention center last year, part of a surge in detainee deaths under the Trump administration.
Martin Faith, founder of Scottish Stained Glass, named Colorado’s Small Business Person of the Year for his company that specializes in restoring historic stained glass windows.
In Colorado, more than $375 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were either terminated and reinstated through legal levers, or axed altogether — in the first 18 months of the Trump administration, according to Grant Witness.
111 people were killed when United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 that sustained a tail engine failure and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.