Colorado is home to several inventions, including Jolly Ranchers, the Denver boot (AKA car boot), tampons, teddy bears, cheeseburgers and snap-button shirts or pearl snaps.
Lawyers for Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas, the Ecuadorian woman detained by ICE at Denver International Airport this week, have filed a habeas corpus petition challenging her arrest and confinement at the immigration detention facility in Aurora.
150 years later, Colorado’s mountain legends and Bigfoot sightings and even conspiracy theories about Denver Airport live on.
Together Colorado and a Weld County resident sued the town of Hudson arguing it must enforce its land development code as the federal government moves toward reopening a shuttered private prison for use as a 1,188-bed ICE detention center.
Staff at Colorado’s unemployment insurance division expressed alarm over what they called a “disturbing practice” of state officials asking claimants to cancel their appeals.
Descendants of Sand Creek massacre, forced removals of Indian tribes see Colorado’s 150th anniversary of statehood as somber occasion.
Patients flocked to Colorado in the early 1900s to treat their tuberculosis, as the fresh and dry air was thought to be a cure.
Colorado’s four most active wildfires — the Aspen Acres, Gold Mountain, Elk and Willow fires — have together consumed nearly 150,000 acres. Custer County residents previously allowed to return home were placed back under mandatory evacuation orders.
Colorado and Adams County public health officials have still not been given access to ICE’s Aurora immigration detention center to investigate a case of tuberculosis.
Both of Colorado’s IMAX 70mm projectors malfunctioned, leaving those trying to see “The Odyssey” on opening weekend frustrated and in the dark.