COLORADO SPRINGS
Triple shooting in Springs leaves two dead, one hurt
Police were investigating an apparent triple shooting Sunday that left a woman and a boy dead and another boy in critical condition.
Officers were called about 7:45 a.m. to a home in the 4300 block of Delighted Circle South on a report of a disturbance, police spokesman Bob Benjamin said.
Inside the home, police found the bodies of the boy and the woman in an upstairs bedroom. Another boy was found wounded on the first floor and was taken to Memorial Hospital, where he was in critical condition, police said.
None of the victims’ names were released, pending notification of their next of kin.
It appears all three were shot, Benjamin said.
BELEN, N.M.
Denver-bound bus hits truck; 38 hurt
More than 30 people were injured when a Denver-bound bus struck a tractor-trailer on Interstate 25 in New Mexico early Sunday.
The Americano bus was northbound near Belen when it apparently changed lanes and hit the rear of the rig, State Police Lt. Jimmy Glascock said.
Thirty-eight people on the bus, including the driver, were hurt.
“The more severe injuries occurred near the front of the bus,” said Glascock, who added that none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.
The bus was en route from El Paso to Denver.
State Police said their investigation is continuing.
DENVER
Suspect arrested after 6-hour standoff
A six-hour standoff in northwest Denver ended Sunday night when SWAT officers fired a chemical agent into a home at 1925 Lowell Blvd. and searched the home, Denver police Detective John White said.
Beaux Sines, 31, was arrested about 10:10 p.m.
Police spotted Sines in a stolen car about 4 p.m., but he ran from the car and into the home, White said. Two occupants of the house came out and told police the suspect might be armed. White didn’t know what the relationship was between Sines and the pair.
Police had cordoned off the block around the house.
ORDWAY
Crowley clerk OKs sheriff-recall petition
The Crowley County clerk has approved a recall petition backed by residents who say they’ve lost faith in the way Sheriff Jeff Keyes is operating his department.
Keyes, who recently was acquitted of a charge of attempting to influence a public servant, said he might challenge some of the 342 signatures that County Clerk Lucile Nichols approved Friday. He has 15 days to lodge a challenge.
“They have had trouble getting their signatures, so I will definitely scrutinize the list,” he said. “But I am not sure if I will protest at this point.”
It is unclear when an election would be held, Nichols said. She said it would cost the county $4,000.
Undersheriff Miles Clark, former Undersheriff Dennis Johnson and Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility officer Charles Gualtney are running to succeed Keyes. Each must collect 117 voters’ signatures to be placed on the ballot.
A jury last week acquitted Keyes, 45, after prosecutors alleged he spilled a 55-gallon barrel filled with hydraulic fluid during a drug investigation and then lied about it to Otero County Health Department officials in October.
LOVELAND
Website hacker gets 60 days in jail
A man who was convicted of hacking the campaign website of a candidate for the state legislature has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and barred from using the Internet for a year.
Larimer County Judge Christine Carney also ordered John Hurst, who runs an Internet company, to pay nearly $7,500 in restitution after a jury in February convicted him of attacking Joe Jabaily’s website.
Jabaily, who ran for the state House in District 51, died last summer in a bicycling accident.
Hurst, who used a computer at the Loveland Public Library to try to shut down Jabaily’s website, said he plans to appeal the conviction.
GREEN RIVER, Wyo.
Wildlife panel to hear report on grizzly plan
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will hear a presentation on the proposed grizzly- bear management plan during a meeting this week.
The Game and Fish Department analyzed about 17,500 public comments regarding the grizzly plan, developing five recommendations that will be presented to the commission for approval. Among them is that grizzly populations in the Wyoming Range, the Salt River Range and the southern Wind River Range be actively discouraged.
