
Karen Morfitt
Reporter at KCNC-TV (Denver, CO)
Reporter for CBS 4 in Denver. Contact me with tips or story ideas at [email protected]
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Karen Morfitt
At Thursday night's Jefferson County School board meeting, representatives of the Colorado school district's teacher's union announced a "no confidence" vote in Superintendent Tracy Dorland. "This is not a ploy, not connected to bargaining and -- for the record -- we have never done this as far as I've been a leader in Jeffco," Jefferson County Education Association President Brooke Williams said.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Karen Morfitt
For decades, a 100 acre property in the center of Wheat Ridge operated as a medical campus. Now the former Lutheran hospital property is changing. "We want to get going just as quickly as we can," Chris Elliott Principal of E5X said. On Tuesday, Intermountain Health announced that E5X, a Colorado based developer, would be taking over as the new owner. At an event unveiling the future of the site, Elliott shared some personal history about his connection to the site.
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cbsnews.com | Karen Morfitt
Some homes in eastern Colorado were badly damaged after multiple tornadoes touched down in parts of Adams County and Elbert County on Sunday. Emergency management teams say no injuries were reported and that emergency alerts were received by hundreds of residents. Both rural areas rely largely on emergency notifications like calls, texts, and emails, also known as CodeRed alerts, to warn residents of severe weather.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Karen Morfitt
One Colorado family is working together to save one life at a time. On any given day, you'll find the halls of HCA HealthONE Sky Ridge pulsing with sound, but the true heartbeat of the hospital is its staff. "I've been in the ICU for about four years, but I've been at Sky Ridge for about six," said Abby Plotke. She cares for the sickest of the sick, patients post-cardiac arrest, stroke and trauma, where every heartbeat counts.
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1 month ago |
cbsnews.com | Karen Morfitt
Doris Dedic has been a Colorado Department of Corrections employee for years. "December of 2020, I started off as a regular community parole officer," she said. She wears a protective vest, carries a gun, a badge and soon -- a body camera. "If and when there ever is a sticky situation, you can look back and see the whole story. The full story," she said.
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