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Hillary Clinton campaigns in Pueblo Wednesday

PUEBLO, Colo. – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will campaign in Pueblo Wednesday amid a push to get more people registered to vote.

Clinton’s visit will come on the heels of her running mate, Tim Kaine, visiting Denver Monday.

Her campaign says the Pueblo event will be focused on getting more people registered to vote ahead of ballots being mailed starting Oct. 17.

Clinton’s main opponent, Donald Trump, campaigned in Pueblo last week.

The Clinton campaign says the event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Watch the live stream below.

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Wikileaks emails: Clinton camp wanted to avoid discussing health care in Colorado before primaries

DENVER – Hillary Clinton’s campaign wanted to avoid talking about health care and what at the time was a proposal for a single-payer system in Colorado supported by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, when she spoke to crowds in Denver and Boulder last November.

The revelation was made in emails purportedly from high-level Clinton staffers released by Wikileaks over the past week. Continue reading

“There was a true threat here” Bomb squad dismantles explosive found near Nederland police HQ

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – Bomb squad robots moved in on an explosive device found Tuesday afternoon, hours after a police officer picked up a backpack, not knowing what hid in the backpack.

Nederland Police Marshal Paul Carrill said Tuesday night, more than 12 hours after police first stumbled across the device, that officers arriving at work Tuesday morning believed a backpack left near police headquarters in Nederland could have been lost property. Continue reading

Former Colorado Governor Bill Owens says ‘charlatan’ Trump has ‘captured’ GOP

DENVER – Colorado’s Republican Former Governor Bill Owens said the Republican party has been “captured” by “charlatan” Donald Trump in a Facebook post Tuesday.

Owens called for fellow Republicans to “do everything possible” to hold GOP majorities in various levels of state and federal government.

In the post, he called Trump a “narcissist who will throw us aside after doing his best to destroy [the Republican party], just as he has thrown aside so many of his properties and venture.”

Owens called for Republicans to try and hold onto majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and said smaller local races needed help to hold on to Republican seats.

He then pointed to a need to reassess and rebuild the party following the election.

“After November 8 we must rebuild at the Presidential level so that we can once again give Americans a legitimate choice for President,” Owens wrote. “We have done so in the past and our Country needs us to do so again in the future.”

Owens is just the latest in a slew of Colorado Republicans who have denounced Trump or wavered on their support of him over the past week after a tape of Trump making lewd remarks and discussing sexually assaulting women in 2005 was leaked to the Washington Post.

Rep. Mike Coffman told Denver7 Friday he wanted Trump to step aside because of the comments.

Cory Gardner and Darryl Glenn joined Coffman in speaking out against Trump the next day, though Glenn, a candidate for U.S. Senate, said Tuesday he wanted to talk face-to-face with Trump before making his final decision.

Owens served as governor of Colorado from 1999 to 2007 and was re-elected in 2002 with the largest-ever majority in state history.

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Man investigated for vehicular homicide in deadly hit-and-run at Colorado and I-70

DENVER – Police are holding a man for investigation on vehicular homicide charges, among others, after a deadly hit-and-run crash that happened Monday night.

Tyler White, 25, is being investigated on vehicular homicide, DUI and leaving the scene of an accident charges after he allegedly killed a woman in a crash near I-70 and Colorado Boulevard just after 6:30 p.m. Monday.

The crash involved three other vehicles, and White allegedly fled the scene on foot afterward.

About three hours after the crash, a person called dispatch to report a man matching White’s description was seen at City Park.

Police spokesman Lt. Robert Rock said EMS workers arrived to find White nude and in the lake at the park. He was taken to an area hospital to be treated for his injuries.

Rock said White is not a Denver resident and was here from Tennessee, likely looking for work.

Police have not named the person killed in the crash, but said Tuesday there were no other injuries.

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Authorities identify suspect arrested in ‘extreme domestic violence’ murder

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colo. – Authorities have identified the suspect arrested in the “extreme domestic violence” case that left a Glenwood Springs woman dead last Friday.

Gustavo Olivo-Tellez, 27, faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of 28-year-old Blanca Judith Jurado Salas. He also faces a prior domestic violence charge, as well as third-degree assault and obstruction of telephone services charges.

The Garfield County Coroner identified Salas as the victim Tuesday. Previous reports said the victim was 24 years old.

Grand Junction SWAT team members arrested Olivo-Tellez early Saturday after finding Salas dead at a Glenwood Springs apartment the night before.

The coroner’s office says Salas was shot several time.

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Eric Trump to campaign for father in Greeley Tuesday

GREELEY, Colo. – Donald Trump’s son, Eric, will campaign for his father Tuesday morning in Greeley after visiting a business event in Greenwood Village Monday.

Eric Trump appeared at the Small Business Roundtable at NexGen Resources Corporation in Greenwood Village at 1:30 p.m. Monday and will make an appearance at the new Weld County Trump for Colorado office Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m.

The new office will be located at 361 71st Ave. in Greeley. Trump will be in attendance to speak with supporters and volunteers, according to the Trump campaign.

Eric is the latest member of the Trump campaign to visit Colorado in recent weeks. Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Mike Pence all visited the state last month, and Donald Trump campaigned in Pueblo and Loveland last week.

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1 dead, 1 injured in Sunday shooting were both teens; suspect arrested after weapon discovered

DENVER – Police have arrested a man for investigation on murder and attempted murder charges after he allegedly shot two teenagers who had apparently gotten into his backyard marijuana plants early Sunday.

One of the teens, a 15-year old, was killed in the shooting, and the other, who is 14 years old, may be paralyzed, according to a probable cause statement for 48-year-old Keith Hammock’s arrest.

Police were called to a backyard between Race and High streets, near 28th Avenue, just after 2 a.m. Sunday.

They found the two teenagers unresponsive, according to the probable cause statement. Both were taken to Denver Health Medical, where one of them died.

The backyard in which the teens were found backed up to the backyard at 2830 High St., where officers found several “mature” marijuana plants.

Officers talked to Hammock, who lives at that address, and he told them his motion detector light had turned on around the time of the shooting, and that he had seen movement. He told officers he went to the yard and saw the two teens lying on the ground.

He then stopped talking to police and requested an attorney be present before he talked again, according to the probable cause statement.

Officers talked to Hammock’s roommate and former girlfriend, who told them she owned three guns, including a .22-caliber rifle.

The medical examiner notified police a .22-caliber bullet was recovered in the chest cavity of the teenager killed in the shooting.

After obtaining several search warrants to go through both the backyard and the home, police found two rifles, spent cartridge casings and a box of .22-caliber ammunition inside one of the rooms.

The screen of the window that faced the yard where the shooting occurred had also been tampered with, according to the probable cause statement.

In another room that faced the same direction, officers found two more rifles, as well as spent .22-caliber casings and more ammunition. Two spent casings were on the window seal of the window that faced the crime scene, and a .22-caliber rifle was sitting on a nearby chair, police wrote.

At some point afterward, officers arrested Hammock. The probable cause statement says the mother of the 14-year-old said the teen was shot twice and “may be paralyzed from the waist down.”

Terry O’Malley, a local defense attorney, used his trial experience in evaluating the case.

“You just don’t have the option of deadly force when somebody is outside your home,” O’Malley said. “I can’t go shooting in the dark at somebody for being on my property. There’s a real change when somebody comes inside your home.”

The case remains under investigation and interviews with witnesses are ongoing. Neither of the victims have been identified.

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Denver, Boulder celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day

DENVER – For the first time ever, the city is officially celebrating the second Monday in October as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”

The Denver City Council approved an ordinance at its Oct. 3 meeting making the day official. Last year, Denver issued a proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

“Far too often the contributions of indigenous peoples’ go unrecognized in our history and textbooks, misrepresenting how much of the United States was settled, including Denver,” Councilman Paul Lopez, who introduced the ordnance, said in a news release at the time.

Boulder leaders passed a similar measure in early August to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day alongside Columbus Day.

Mayor Suzanne Jones told those at the meeting at the time she was “sorry it took so long.”

More than a dozen cities across the country have made the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day to honor Native Americans either alongside or in opposition to Columbus Day.

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Woman found dead in vehicle near Timnath was reported missing from Northglenn

NORTHGLENN, Colo. – Police say the woman found dead in a vehicle in a farmer’s field near Timnath had been reported missing days earlier from Northglenn.

The woman has has been identified as 39-year-old Teresa Sanchez  was reported missing Sept. 18.

The woman was found dead inside a vehicle north of East Prospect Road and Larimer County Road 5 on Sept. 23 . Her death is being treated as a homicide.

Northglenn police have taken the lead on the investigation, though the Timnath Police Department continues to assist.

How she died is pending the result of the investigation.

Northglenn police ask anyone with information on the woman’s death to call Detective Gesi at either 303-450-8857 or 303-450-8893.

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