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6 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
As spring officially turned to summer and record-high temperatures hit the Denver area, those in attendance at the 51st annual Cherry Blossom Festival on Saturday found different ways to stay cool.
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6 days ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
A toddler has been located after being abducted in Centennial Saturday morning, a situation that resulted in police issuing an Amber Alert. The alert was deactivated four hours after it was sent out, according to a social media post from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office are embroiled in a spat over a man not being detained past the maximum time permitted by state law. Jose Lopez-Hildago, 32, of Honduras, was arrested by the sheriff's office for a DUI and had his release processed on Wednesday, according to social media posts from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and from ICE Denver.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
A grand jury handed down a first-degree murder charge against Barry Morphew and he was arrested in Arizona Friday. He's suspected of killing his wife Suzanne Morphew in 2021. The charge, the latest in a years-long saga surrounding Suzanne's disappearance and killing, was made by a grand jury in the 12th Judicial District, according to a news release from the district attorney's office.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
A man died after police him during a chase through the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley Wednesday evening. The man, who was originally transported to a local hospital after the incident, was shot by officers and sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound after police chased him on foot through the university campus, according to social media posts from the Weld County Sheriff's Office. No officers or members of the public were injured in the shooting.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
Loveland Pass reopened to motorists Wednesday afternoon after a landslide closed the section of U.S. Highway 6 three days prior. The reopening comes after seven tandem dump trucks hauled 92 tons of mud and silt off the roadway and geohazard specialists from the Colorado Department of Transportation greenlit a reopening of the pass to drivers at 1 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release from CDOT.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
A Colorado dentist has been sentenced to over four years in prison for a tax evasion scheme that concealed over $5 million in income. Ryan Ulibarri, who owned and operated Ulibarri Family Dentistry in Fort Collins since 2014, used an illegal tax shelter to not only conceal that revenue but also evade more than $1.6 million in state and federal income taxes owed on it, according to court documents summarized in a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
As temperatures get back up into the upper 90 degrees on Thursday, many Denverites will be enjoying the mid-June day off for Juneteenth. The holiday, a portmanteau of June 19 — the day it is celebrated— commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people were freed in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth was designated as a paid federal holiday by President Joe Biden in 2021.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite |Marianne Goodland
The daughter of a Colorado state representative was arrested in connection with a stabbing incident in Denver last Wednesday. Nefretarie Lockley, 29, was arrested on six felony charges, including second degree attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and felony menacing, after allegedly stabbing a woman in the back with a knife in the 3900 block of North Elati Street, according to a probable cause affidavit provided by the Denver District Attorney's Office.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Michael Braithwaite
Just like Nintendo gaming villain Wario, these thieves were looking for their gold mine. More than $1.4 million worth of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles were stolen in a heist from a semi-truck parked at a Love's Truck Stop on June 8, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office.
