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11 people, including Venezuelan gang members, facing potential charges in abduction, police say
DENVER (AP) — Eleven people, including some members of a Venezuelan gang, are facing potential criminal charges in connection with the violent abduction and beating of a couple this week at an apartment complex in a Denver suburb, police said Friday. Eight of those suspects were...
Apartment building where viral video fueled Trump's claims about city likely will close next year
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — An apartment building that was the scene of a viral video that led former President Donald Trump to claim a Denver suburb had been taken over by a Venezuelan gang will likely close early next year, an official said Friday. The city of Aurora is seeking to close...
Dentist accused of killing wife by poisoning her shakes charged with trying to have detective killed
DENVER (AP) — A dentist accused of killing his wife by poisoning her protein shakes has been charged with trying to get a fellow jail inmate to kill a detective investigating the murder case. Prosecutors filed two new charges against James Craig last week — solicitation to...
Colorado teen fights kidney failure after eating McDonald's Quarter Pounders
A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected. Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, Colorado, had to be flown...
They came to America looking for better lives — and better schools. The results were mixed
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Starting seventh grade at her first American school, facing classes taught entirely in English, Alisson Ramirez steeled herself for rejection and months of feeling lost. “I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn’t know how to answer,”...
Old Second Bancorp: Q3 Earnings Snapshot
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Old Second Bancorp Inc. (OSBC) on Wednesday reported third-quarter profit of $23 million. The Aurora, Illinois-based bank said it had earnings of 50 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 51 cents per share. ...
Trump tested the limits on using the military at home. If elected again, he plans to go further
WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S....
Colorado officer who killed Black man holding cellphone mistaken for gun won't be prosecuted
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police officer who fatally shot a Black man holding what turned out to be a cellphone as police tried to arrest him will not be prosecuted, the district attorney announced Friday. Officer Michael Dieck told investigators that he believed Kilyn Lewis, who...
Trump drives his anti-immigration message in Aurora, Colorado
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that's been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American...
Trump seizes on one block of a Colorado city to warn of migrant crime threat, even as crime dips
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The city of Aurora is roughly the size of pre-evacuation Tampa, Florida. With 400,000 people spread over 164 square miles, it has swank subdivisions, working-class neighborhoods and the high-end resort where Donald Trump will hold a rally Friday to highlight a city turned...
