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Colo. Mall Bomb Suspect Caught; No Word on Motive
By not in system - AOL NewsBOULDER, Colo. -- A man suspected of leaving a homemade bomb at a Colorado shopping mall was captured without a fight outside a grocery store some 30 miles away Tuesday following a nationwide alert in which the FBI warned he should be considered armed and dangerous. Federal and local officials allege 65-year-old Earl Albert Moore planted a pipe bomb and propane tanks in the Southwest Plaza Mall in the south Denver suburbs last week. The explosives were found April 20 after a fire in a hallway at the mall's food court, but they didn't detonate. The discovery - on the 12th anniversary ...
Crews Clean Up Train Tanker Leaking Acid in Colo.
By not in system - AOL NewsMONUMENT, Colo. -- A hydrochloric acid spill forced hundreds of residents of a town just north of the U.S. Air Force Academy to spend a day away from home while crews transferred the dangerous chemical from a leaking train tanker to a safe container. Evacuations were ordered for 255 homes in Monument, a town of 6,800 near Colorado Springs, after the leak was discovered by another passing train around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. It's not clear how long it had been leaking as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train traveled from Kansas toward Denver. Everyone was allowed to go home by 10 p.m. after ...
Toxic Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Democratic Report Says
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday. The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either were regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act as risks to human health or listed as hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Methanol was the most widely used chemical. The substance is a hazardous air pollutant and is on the candidate list for potential ...
Mom on Facebook Sentenced in Son's Drowning Death
By not in system - AOL NewsGREELEY, Colo. -- A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or that she killed her son on purpose, the Greeley Tribune reported. But, he added, that doesn't mean her action wasn't criminal. "You left this little boy in a bathtub so you could entertain yourself on the computer by playing games," Quammen said. "And you left that 13-month-old human being, little ...
Police Pepper Spray 8-Year-Old in Colorado Elementary School
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsAidan Elliott admits that he was out of control. When police entered his second-grade classroom, Aidan, an 8-year-old Colorado boy, was in the midst of a violent tantrum, wielding a sharp piece of molding he had ripped off the wall and used to threaten his teachers' lives. His mother, however, says there's no excuse for what happened next. Police, seeking to diffuse the situation, sprayed Aidan with pepper spray, twice. "He's a child. There were two grown police officers and they didn't even try to talk to him," Aidan's mom, Mandy Elliott, said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning ...
More Than 300 Homes Evacuated in Colorado Wildfire
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Authorities say strong winds have fueled a wildfire west of Fort Collins and forced the evacuation of more than 300 homes. The blaze has already destroyed an outbuilding, a motorcycle and an all-terrain vehicle, but no injuries have been reported. Larimer County Sheriff's spokesman John Schulz tells The Associated Press early Sunday that about 335 homes had been ordered evacuated in three areas: south of Buckhorn Canyon, east of Crystal Mountain Road, and around Redstone Canyon. The rugged, hilly area is located about about 15 miles west of Fort Collins. Centers for ...
Were Colorado UFOs Simply Road Flares Tied to Balloons?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsEver since three red lights in a triangular formation were seen and videotaped over Lafayette, Colo., there's been a flurry of online sparring between skeptics and ufologists over what was in the sky on the evening of March 20. First the background: A formation of three red lights was observed over Colorado. They were caught on video by Lafayette resident Leroy Vandervegt after his son Nick spotted them in the sky. The lights were described as continuous, unblinking, hovering silently in the air and moving together in the same triangular pattern until they faded away. Vandervegt never ...
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 ...
Cops: Man Demolishes Neighbor's Home Over $80 Debt
By David Moye - AOL NewsA Colorado man accused of causing $250,000 worth of damage to his neighbor's property over an $80 debt may now have to pay a debt to society. Jack Herbst, 63, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of felony criminal mischief and booked into the El Paso County Jail on $10,000 bond after allegedly going on a rampage through his neighbor's property while driving a front-end loader. The Gazette reports that the front-end loader carved a path of destruction through Ron Morphis' property, doing an estimated $250,000 of damages. ...
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