Mar. 16, 2025
Natalie Chase.Photo: office of judicial performance evaluation
A Colorado judge has resigned from her post after she said a racial slur multiple times in front of colleagues, and declared that “all lives matter” while discussing Black Lives Matter protests from the courtroom bench.
The first incident cited took place in late January or early February 2020, when Chase drove herself, her former law clerk and a Black Family Court Facilitator to a program in Pueblo, Colorado, according to the order.
Mar. 16, 2025
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Freshman Colorado lawmaker Lauren Boebert — no stranger to controversy less than a year into her first term in the House of Representatives — is again facing scrutiny after amendedcampaign documents filed Tuesdayshowed that she paid her rent and utility bills using campaign funds, reimbursing the campaign months later.
Forbesreports thatthe series of campaign disbursements were originally made in a July FEC filing.
Those disbursements — totaling $6,650 — were made to Venmo and are described in the July document as: “Personal expense of Lauren Boebert billed to campaign account in error.
Mar. 16, 2025
Isabella Thallas.Photo: Gofundme
Close faces 22 separate criminal counts stemming from the fatal June 10, 2020, shooting of Isabella Thallas, including first-degree murder and multiple counts of possessing a prohibited large-capacity gun magazine.
Thallas was walking her dog with her boyfriend, Darian Simon, when she was shot to death. She had turned 21 two days earlier.
Michael Close.Denver District Attorney’s Office
The shooting took place in Denver’s Ballpark neighborhood. Simon was also shot during the incident, but survived.
Mar. 16, 2025
Jepsy Kallungi.Photo: Colorado Springs Police Department
A Colorado man accused of murdering his missing second wife allegedly confessed to the crime in a conversation with his first wife — a conversation investigators were recording.
The affidavit says the 28-year-old woman was last seen March 20, 2019, in Colorado Springs, where she and Kallungi lived.
Jepsy had moved to the United States from the Philippines in 2017 to marry Kallungi, the affidavit states.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Westminister Police Department
Colorado police are searching for a man who allegedly killed his ex-wife months after he was released from jail on assault charges against her.
James Naulls, Jr., 30, is accused in the strangling and beating death of his ex-wife Yasmin Dahabreh, who was found inside her Westminster apartment complex around 2 p.m. on Jan. 31. She died from her injuries a few days later.
“We consider him very dangerous,” Westminster Police Department investigator Cheri Spottke tells PEOPLE.