by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Aurora will pay $15 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after he was dosed with ketamine during an encounter with Aurora police and paramedics in 2019. The settlement amount is likely the...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Twenty-three years after the International Space Station launched, Jessica Watkins, a Lafayette native, will become the first Black woman to stay on the space station for a long-duration mission.NASA announced Tuesday that Watkins will fly to the space station as a...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
On Nov. 18, 2020, Colorado was four days away from hitting its highest average of new daily cases of the pandemic, a record that still stands a year later. On that day, there were 165 active outbreaks in the state’s K-12 schools, infecting 600 students with...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 24, 2021 | Leadville News
Source: NurPhoto / Getty Over two years after Aurora, Colo. police officers killed Elijah McClain, and the city has settled with his family. The agreement was reached in federal court Friday due to a lawsuit filed by the family last August. The family will receive $15...
by Mr. Leadville | Nov 23, 2021 | Leadville News
The Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) has determined that referring to people who commit sexual crimes as “sex offenders” isn’t “person-first” language. Instead, rapists, flashers, peeping toms, and other perverts will be called an “Adult who commits...
