Haley Lena

3 weeks ago | coloradocommunitymedia.com | Haley Lena

With confirmed measles cases popping up across the Denver metro area, here’s what you need to know about the infectious disease and what to do if you believe you have been exposed. With more than 1,000 measles cases confirmed nationwide, there have been about a dozen confirmed in Colorado, as of June 4.

3 weeks ago | coloradocommunitymedia.com | Haley Lena

When faced with an emergency, there can be a lot of emotions running through a person’s head as they dial 911 and speak to a dispatcher. But when 10-year-old Eli Carey had to call 911 to help his baby brother earlier this spring, he remained calm. “Eli did something incredible that not a lot of adults can normally do,” said Nick Bloss, a dispatcher with Douglas County Regional Dispatch.

3 weeks ago | coloradocommunitymedia.com | Haley Lena

Campaign finance reports have been filed for the committees supporting and opposing home rule in Douglas County, and they are starkly different. Yes on Local Control, the group supporting home rule, has received nearly four times as much money in campaign contributions as the opposition, but that massive support came from only five donors, while opposing committee Stop the Power Grab has received contributions from more than 200 people.

3 weeks ago | coloradocommunitymedia.com | Haley Lena

By the age of 3, Lucy Harris was riding a bike without training wheels, kicking a soccer ball on a field and feeling the unique sense of joy that sports bring to a person. Being active was all she had ever known. Lucy’s love for sports runs so deep that even after a car crash in the summer of 2023 that left her paralyzed from the chest down didn’t stop her from exploring new sports – like fencing and basketball – through a Children’s Hospital adaptive recreation program.

3 weeks ago | coloradocommunitymedia.com | Haley Lena

Douglas County District Court Judge Ryan Stuart on June 2 sentenced an Elizabeth man to 25 years in prison for felony vehicular assault and felony child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. Chase Lein, 32, pleaded guilty to the charges earlier this year. Just after 6 p.m. on April 10, 2024, Diane Lampasona and her two children were turning onto Mainstreet in Parker at the intersection of South Chambers Road and Mainstreet Parker when Lein ran a red light and struck the family with his truck.