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Fort Collins school district fires 10 track coaches in sudden personnel shake-up

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Ten track and field coaches at a high school in Fort Collins were terminated on Tuesday, barely a month into the spring season, after a “violation of district policy,” a Poudre School District spokesperson confirmed Thursday.

In a message to families of track students at Rocky Mountain High School, located at 1300 W. Swallow Road, district officials said, “Due to a personnel matter involving a violation of district policy, some of the individuals previously serving as coaches are no longer employed with the district.”

The district added that no students were involved in the situation.

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El Paso Co. Coroner confirms fatal animal attack in southern Colorado, canine suspected

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DENVER (KDVR) — A woman was found dead in Costilla County in January and the autopsy revealed that she had injuries consistent with an animal attack.

The El Paso County Coroner determined the manner of 68-year-old Cindy Denholm’s death to be an accident.

The autopsy report obtained by FOX31 said that it is the coroner’s opinion that she “died as a result of multiple injuries from an animal attack.”

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“One pill away from death”: inside Colorado Springs’ undercover fentanyl crackdown

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(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A record number of fentanyl pills are being seized across Colorado, with local law enforcement agencies like the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) crediting the success partly to their department’s ability to deploy officers undercover.

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Rocky Mountain Field Division announced it seized nearly 2.7 million fentanyl pills – or “fake” pills – in Colorado in 2024. This breaks the previous record set in 2023 with 2.61 million pills seized in the state.

“It is an unfortunate record to set,” said DEA RMFD Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen. “We continue to work day in, day out fighting the cartels putting this poison on Colorado streets. While we have seen seizure numbers trending lower in other parts of the country, Colorado seems to be consistently at or near record highs for the number of fake pills seized.”

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Denver City Council leaders reject $3 million contract with Salvation Army for homeless services

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Former case managers have spoken out about working conditions in Denver’s homeless shelters. Now, city council members are rejecting a new contract with the Salvation Army.

“I’m thankful I left when I did,” said one former case manager who spoke with CBS Colorado on the condition of anonymity.

That is the sentiment shared among three former case managers, after working in one of the city of Denver’s homeless shelters, managed by the Salvation Army.

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City of Rifle blasts state for misusing severance tax dollars

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A letter to state Sen. Marc Catlin and state Rep. Elizabeth Velasco has been prepared by the city staff of Rifle regarding the diversion of Local Government Severance Tax Funds to address budget shortfalls at the state government level. 

The Local Government Severance Tax Fund was originally created to help support communities  impacted by resource extraction activities, like oil and gas, which sometimes leads to a “boom and bust” economy of those communities. The “bust” of that equation was to be offset by the Local Government Severance Tax Fund.

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CU regents request internal investigation for conflict of interest

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Members of the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents have requested an internal investigation into one of its fellow members over possible conflicts of interests in efforts to cut funding for a CU program.

The investigation, requested by regents Ken Montera and Callie Rennison, comes after fellow regent Wanda James’ objections to a campaign created by the state legislature and funded through the Colorado School of Public Health and CU Anschutz Medical Campus to educate the public on the health risks of highly concentrated marijuana.

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Colorado man facing multiple charges of sexual exploitation of a child, distributing child sexual abuse material

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A man from Boulder County has been arrested and is facing multiple charges for allegedly distributing child sexual assault material. After the Colorado Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was notified of the material they determined the suspect likely lived in Boulder County. One of their investigators at the Boulder County Digital Forensics lab identified Matthew Howard Cory of Lafayette as a suspect in the case.

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Denver attorneys say potential IRS, ICE data-sharing agreement creates ‘catch 22’

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A data-sharing agreement between the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is near, two sources told ABC News, which tax experts say could end up putting undocumented immigrants across the nation, including here in Colorado, in a “catch-22” situation.

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