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FILE – Former Officer Jason Rosenblatt, left, and Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema, right, attend an arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo., Jan. 20, 2023. The two officers face felony charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)

Neck hold used on Elijah McClain emerges as focal point in officers’ trial over his 2019 death

October 6, 2023 at 5:53 p.m.

A neck hold that Denver-area police used on Elijah McClain prior to the Black man's 2019 death lasted only seconds but has emerged as a focal point in the first...

Former Aurora Police officer Jason Rosenblatt arrives to the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colorado on September 20, 2023. The jury trial for Aurora police officer Randy Roedema and former officer Rosenblatt continues as they face charges in the death of Elijah McClain. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Pathologist testifies he’s unsure whether police choke hold contributed to Elijah McClain’s death

October 4, 2023 at 9:15 a.m.

The pathologist who performed Elijah McClain鈥檚 autopsy testified Tuesday that he was unsure if a police neck hold contributed to the Black man鈥檚 2019 death as attorneys for two Denver-area...

Video of Elijah McClain鈥檚 stop by police shown as Aurora officers stand trial

September 22, 2023 at 5:15 p.m.

Elijah McClain鈥檚 mother left a Colorado courtroom in tears Friday after prosecutors showed video footage of the 23-year-old Black man pinned down by police officers during a fatal 2019 confrontation,...

Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, right, accompanied by her lawyer, Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom, second from left, speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, after her case was heard before the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Man named in Supreme Court抖阴ap Colorado gay rights ruling says he didn鈥檛 request a wedding website

July 1, 2023 at 11:45 a.m.

The request in dispute, from a person identified as 鈥淪tewart,鈥� wasn鈥檛 the basis for the federal lawsuit filed preemptively seven years ago by web designer Lorie Smith, before she started...

In this May 8, 2003, file photo, a northern spotted owl sits on a tree branch in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates protections for species that are newly classified as threatened. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Biden administration moves to restore endangered species protections dropped by Trump

June 21, 2023 at 4:12 p.m.

The Biden administration has proposed new rules for protecting imperiled plants and animals as officials move to reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened application of the Endangered...

FILE – In this May 8, 2003, file photo, a northern spotted owl sits on a tree branch in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates protections for species that are newly classified as threatened. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Biden administration moves to restore endangered species protections dropped by Trump

June 21, 2023 at 8:00 a.m.

The Biden administration has proposed new rules for protecting imperiled plants and animals that would reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act.

Plaintiffs Mica, 14; Badge 15, Lander 18, and Taleah, 19, listen to arguments during a status hearing on May 12, 2023, in Helena, Mont., for a case that they and other Montana youth filed against the state arguing Montana officials are not meeting their constitutional obligations to protect residents from climate change. The first-of-its-kind trial begins Monday, June 12, 2023, before District Court Judge Kathy Seeley in Helena. It is scheduled to last for two weeks. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)

Young climate activists take Montana to court for its role in global warming

June 12, 2023 at 8:06 p.m.

Youth plaintiffs say warming temperatures are harming their health and threatening their futures as a closely-watched climate trial kicks in Montana. But a lawyer for the fossil fuel-friendly state said...

Police crime tape is still surrounding the scene of the shooting outside of Club Q on November 21, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

In 2021, judge warned of Club Q suspect’s shootout plans: “It’s going to be so bad”

December 16, 2022 at 11:43 a.m.

A judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Aldrich warned last year that the defendant had been stockpiling weapons and planning a shootout, and...

A thunderstorm passes between Midland and Odessa, Texas, just behind an array of pump jacks on Thursday, May 14, 2020. While the Inflation Reduction Act concentrates on clean energy incentives that could drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, it also buoys oil and gas interests by mandating leasing of vast areas of public lands and off the nation’s coasts. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)

Climate bill鈥檚 unlikely beneficiary: U.S. oil and gas industry

August 19, 2022 at 10:04 a.m.

While the Inflation Reduction Act concentrates on clean energy incentives that could drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, it also buoys oil and gas interests by mandating leasing of vast areas...

Clouds cast shadows near wind turbines at a wind farm along the Montana-Wyoming state line on Monday, June 13, 2022. The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators, the golden eagle. Scientists say the species is teetering on the edge of decline and worry that proliferating wind turbines could push them over the brink. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin)

Wyoming is ground zero for conflict between wind energy boom and golden eagles

August 17, 2022 at 2:55 p.m.

The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators -- the golden eagle — as the...

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