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Man Accused of Raping Woman at Denver Airport
By not in system - AOL NewsDENVER - The rape of a woman at Denver International Airport has left family members raising questions about the late-night attack and officials defending security at the Rocky Mountain hub, which serves millions of travelers each year. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said Wednesday that violent crime is rare at the airport, and that he knows of one other alleged sexual assault there, which he said involved an airport worker attacking another employee in an area not accessible to the public. An airport spokeswoman seconded Jackson's comments, telling The Denver Post that "something like this ...
Record-Breaking Storm System Roars Across US
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe powerful storm system that swept through the Plains on Sunday and to the East Coast today, killing at least seven people in the Deep South, spawned over 1,500 reports of severe weather since Sunday, including a record-breaking 1,200-plus reports during one 24-hour period. The hardest hit regions were the Tennessee Valley, Mississippi Valley and the Southeast, where the majority of the reports piled up from early Monday through early Tuesday. During the 24 hours, more preliminary severe weather reports -- large hail, wind damage and tornadoes -- were tallied than in any other 24-hour ...
Wind Grounds Aircraft Fighting Colorado Wildfire
By not in system - AOL NewsGOLDEN, Colo. -- Air tankers and ground crews battled a wind-whipped wildfire in the foothills west of Denver as officials warned that eastern Colorado's worst drought in nearly a decade makes that part of the state vulnerable to more burning. Two helicopters, two aerial tankers and 200 firefighters kept a 2-square-mile blaze from growing substantially Tuesday, officials said. The tankers dropped 7,000 pounds of fire retardant and the helicopters dropped 9,200 gallons of water before they were grounded when the wind picked up in the afternoon. The fire has been eating through grass, ...
Goose-Kebab: Arrow Removed From Elusive Bird
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsA few inches to the left and this duck would have been sauce. A Canada goose that waddled through Denver for more than a month with an arrow impaled through its chest is a walking shish kebab no longer. Doctors safely removed the obstruction during an operation Thursday, The Denver Post reports. denverpost.com A wounded Canada goose with an arrow piercing its side was successfully operated upon by bird specialist Jerry LaBonde. Veterinarian and bird specialist Jerry LaBonde, who performed the surgery at the Homestead Animal Hospital, was pleased with his ...
SEC's Porn-Watching Employees Earned Over $200,000 Per Year
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt's safe to say that spending eight hours of company time watching pornography would get most workers canned. Not so at the Securities and Exchange Commission, it seems. New documents regarding a 2005-10 investigation into the agency's porn-surfing employees reveal that several workers were "disciplined" for downloading erotica on their SEC-issued computers but never fired. A Freedom of Information Act request from Denver-based lawyer Kevin Evans asking the SEC to release details regarding the investigated employees has also shown that some of the distracted individuals were earning ...
Boy, 12, Held in Shooting Deaths of Parents
By not in system - AOL NewsA 12-year-old boy has been arrested after his parents were shot to death and two younger siblings wounded in their eastern Colorado home, local media reported today. The boy called 911 on Tuesday evening and said there had been a shooting in his home in the small town of Burlington, according to KCNC, the CBS affiliate in Denver. Responding officers found the bodies of Charles Long, 50, and Marilyn Long, 51, inside the home, KMGH, the ABC station in Denver, reported. Police said two children, a 5-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy, were seriously wounded. They were taken first to Kit Carson ...
Traveler May Have Spread Measles in 5 US Airports
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsPublic health officials are scrambling to reach airline passengers and staff who may have had contact with a woman infected with measles who passed through as many as five U.S. airports last week. The New Mexico woman was on a transatlantic flight from London to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20. Over the next few days, she's believed to have passed through airports in Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and San Diego. New Mexico authorities refused to identify the woman, but described her as a 27-year-old who had never been vaccinated for measles as a child. Her ...
Pregnant Colorado Woman Mistakenly Given Abortion Pill
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT LUPTON, Colo. - A Colorado woman who is six weeks pregnant says a pharmacist at a grocery store mistakenly gave her an abortion drug instead of an antibiotic and now she fears she will lose her unborn child. Mareena Silva tells Denver's KMGH-TV that the pharmacist at the Safeway in Fort Lupton gave her methotrexate last week. The drug, intended for another woman, is used in chemotherapy and to terminate early-stage pregnancies. Silva says she took a pill and checked the bottle after becoming sick. She was rushed to the hospital. Doctors say Silva could miscarry or have a baby with ...
Unemployed Grad Lets Craigslist Dictate Fate
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsCraigslist users frequent the popular classifieds website seeking everything from a cheap futon to a one-night stand ("casual encounters" in Craigspeak). Jason Paul may be the first to visit looking for a life. American University released Paul into the world in May 2009 armed with a degree representing four years of study but filling only two lines of a resume. Paul needed a job. One hundred eighty cover letters later, he still needed a job. Jason Paul Jason Paul decided that for nine months, he would get everything he needed from Craigslist, including employment, housing and ...
Nasty Weather to Ring in the New Year
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsWhile the weather will be dry and tranquil when the ball drops in Times Square at midnight, parts of the nation will have nasty -- if not downright dangerous -- weather to ring in 2011. The combination of strong winds, snow and blowing snow will result in blizzard conditions in northern and western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota and much of South Dakota this evening through Saturday morning. Snowfall totals from this second of back-to-back storms will approach a foot in some locations, and the combination of snow and blowing snow will reduce visibility to near zero at times. Wind chill ...
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