2 of 3 shot at party released from hospital
Two of three men from Aurora who were shot at a party Saturday morning have been released from Poudre Valley Hospital after being treated for gunshot wounds. A third man remains hospitalized.
Police responding to a complaint of a loud party found Chris Maddamma, 19, Timothy Hoban, 20, and Anthony Soper, 20, wounded. The suspects had fled.
Soper is listed in fair condition, according to Poudre Valley Hospital spokeswoman Carol Theilgaard.
Police are looking for two men who may be driving a silver Volks wagen Jetta.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Jerrod Kinsman at 970-416-2645.
Mayor apologizes to war-veterans group
Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera, a former Army captain, says he wrongly associated a veteran’s advocacy group with anti-war protesters.
The group, Operation Just One, was formed to provide veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with free mental care.
Rivera said he had mistakenly associated Operation Just One with anti-war protesters who appeared at City Hall on Oct. 11.
“I apologize for mistakenly associating you with the anti-war movement and stating you oppose the war and are anti- Army,” Rivera wrote in an e-mail to Scott Robinson, whose National Gulf War Resources Center is underwriting Operation Just One.
Rivera had initially declared his support for Operation Just One but withdrew it after the protest at his office.
Georg-Andreas “Andrew” Pogany, a former Special Forces soldier, created the program under the auspices of the National Gulf War Resource Center.
Pogany was discharged from the Army last year. He had been the first soldier since the Vietnam War to face a cowardice charge until the charges were dropped.
Military vets form CSU-Pueblo fraternity
A group of veterans at Colorado State University-Pueblo has formed a fraternity and are hoping the idea will catch on nationally.
“We’ve done our duty. We did it with honor, and it was for our country,” said Robert Murphy, a former Marine and president of the Omicron Delta Gamma fraternity. “That’s what we want to employ as a fraternity that’s dedicated to military veterans,” Murphy said.
Twenty-nine veterans have applied to join and as many as a hundred more have expressed interest, Murphy said.
The university gave the fraternity a charter in September, and organizers hope to soon begin the lengthy process of getting a national charter.
License clerk handed 18-month prison term
A clerk who sold driver’s licenses to people who weren’t qualified to get them was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison.
Virginia Villegas, 49, admitted selling driver’s licenses on at least 15 occasions.
She told U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham that she had made a “horrible mistake.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Taylor said that Villegas’ sentencing should send a message to other public officials who contemplate such illegal actions.
Labor Dept. to host energy-worker events
The U.S. Department of Labor will host two town-hall meetings Nov. 7 and 8 to discuss new rules governing a nuclear-worker compensation program.
Labor officials will discuss the implementation of Part E of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. Part E, which replaces a Department of Energy program, provides compensation for energy workers who became ill as a result of exposure to toxic substances.
To date, more than $207 million has been paid to 1,627 recipients under the new program.
The first meeting will be Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd.
The second meeting will take place at the center on Nov. 8 at 3 p.m.
