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Many Colorado water waivers revoked after taint

Colorado has revoked waivers from as many as 72 public drinking-water systems and is now requiring chlorine treatment of most public supplies as part of the response to a salmonella-poisoning epidemic that ravaged Alamosa last year. A Colorado ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  19 Nov 2009

Colorado justice commission suggests lighter penalties for drug possession

A commission of Colorado criminal justice leaders voted Friday to recommend reduced penalties for possessing marijuana and other illegal drugs. If Colorado legislators adopt the recommendations, possessing up to 4 ounces of marijuana would become a ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Peter Weir,  John Suthers

Gadgetry monitors Colorado drunken drivers for alcohol

If a convicted drunken driver violates probation by drinking, a dozen technologies can detect it. An interlock device can prevent his car from starting. One ankle bracelet can detect alcohol coming through his skin. Another can make sure he's home, and ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Sandoval: 25 arrests, 5 DUIs, a dead passenger, and driver's still not locked up

PUEBLO — Adrian Sandoval had been out of jail for six weeks on his fourth drunken driving case when Colorado Springs police tried to stop him for speeding. Drunk again, he fled, police said. His Chrysler sped down a city boulevard at an estimated 80 to ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  27 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Chrysler,  Honda

Water funding flows in "Obama dollars" will help ailing small towns begin needed projects

The little Adams County water district that had birds in the storage tank and rupturing lines will be getting some help from the economic-stimulus bill. So will Hot Sulphur Springs, the Colorado town where everyone had to boil their water for months ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bill Ritter,  Steve Gunderson

More tattered bridges join list

The list of poor and structurally deficient Colorado highway bridges keeps growing, a yearly state survey shows. This year's total: 128 poor bridges, up from 116 in two years. Three of Colorado's 64 counties — Denver, Adams and Pueblo — host nearly ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  16 Aug 2009

Colo. treatment providers against DUI bargain

An alliance of Colorado treatment providers contends the state has created a blatant conflict of interest in drunken driving cases by permitting a private company to serve simultaneously as probation officer and alcohol counselor. The counseling ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  14 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Life in prison sobering time to mull past

for the death of Phyllis "Patricia" Trujillo Strock, his ex-wife, in an interstate car crash, his 19th drunken-driving case. He is 66 years old now, with 45 years of prison to go. Richard Strock, 66, says he relives the day his ex-wife died every day ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  7 Jun 2009

Army secretary salutes Fort Carson

FORT CARSON — Secretary of the Army Pete Geren said Tuesday that seven years of war has posed unprecedented challenges for its warriors. Those include multiple deployments of the same soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan, growing numbers of soldiers ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  6 May 2009
Related Topics: Pete Geren,  Ken Salazar

Wife's death didn't stop him

Mark Ervin was driving drunk with his pregnant wife beside him when he turned in front of another car at a Fort Collins intersection. Sandra Ervin was critically injured in the broadside crash, suffering head and internal wounds. Her unborn child died ...

From DAVID OLINGER, Denver Post,  25 Apr 2009

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