Mar. 15, 2025
Barn fire at Hidden Pines Farm in Franktown, Colo., on Monday.Photo:Franktown Fire Protection District
Franktown Fire Protection District
A Colorado man is being hailed a hero for risking his own life to save as many horses as he could after a fire broke out at the barn where he works.
Fourteen horses were trapped inside the barn when Soto Sanchez, who works as the farm’s property manager, reached the burning building, KUSA reported.
Mar. 15, 2025
Colorado Republican Sen. Kevin Priola, left, Democratic House Speaker KC Becker, center, and Democratic Sen. Lois Court discuss a proposed ballot initiative to let the state keep excess tax revenue in Denver on March 20, 2019. Citing alarm toward the Republican Party’s widespread embrace of 2020 election conspiracies, a moderate GOP Colorado state senator has switched his affiliation to Democrat. Priola’s decision, announced, enhances Democrats' chances of retaining their majority in the chamber in the November midterms Colorado Legislator-Party Switch, Denver, United States - 20 Mar 2019.
Mar. 15, 2025
Djibril Diol, right.Photo:Denver Police Department
Denver Police Department
A Colorado man was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, becoming the second person to be sentenced in connection with an August 2020 fire thatkilled five family members.
Gavin Seymour, 19, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in January, according to reports from theAP,CBS NewsandThe Denver Post. Seymour is one of three suspects, who were all teenagers at the time of the fire, in anarson attackthat killed Djibril Diol, his wife Adja, their 2-year-old daughter, Diol’s sister Hassan and her infant daughter in their Denver home, the outlets reported, citing police.
Mar. 15, 2025
Maria Anita Serrano, Kenneth Eugene Green Luque.Photo: FacebookA Colorado woman and her father were granted restraining orders against her ex-boyfriend a week before he allegedly shot and killed her father and her other family members, along with a neighbor,Fox31 reports.On Oct. 30, authorities responded to a 911 call from 21-year-old Joseph Castorena’s ex-girlfriend, who has not been named but survived the shooting that took place at an Aurora home that day, according to theAurora Police Department.
Mar. 15, 2025
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Colombian authorities are moving forward with recovering the $17 billion shipwreckedSan Josénearly a decade after it was first discovered.
The Spanish galleon ship, which sank off the coast near the port city of Cartagena in 1708, will be recovered in a partnership with the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge; the National Navy’s General Maritime Directorate and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History,according to a press release from the Colombian government.