Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz joked about his “interesting” first week as Kamala Harris’ running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket and criticized Donald Trump’s background on Wednesday during a Denver fundraiser that collected $3 million for the campaign. “This week has been interesting,” Walz told roughly 150 attendees in the backyard of the 33,000-square-foot Phipps … Read more
Two Colorado nonprofit groups called publicly on Attorney General Phil Weiser this week to “root out collusion and price fixing among large landlords” amid national and state scrutiny of software that’s allegedly used by property owners to artificially increase rental prices. The nonprofits — law firm Towards Justice and the housing group Community Economic Defense … Read more
Laval police say they arrested three suspects Wednesday in connection to a massive data breach at Desjardins Group made public in 2019. Imad Jbara, 33, and Ayoub Kourdal, 36, were charged with fraud, trafficking in identity information and identity theft. The third suspect has yet to appear in court. An arrest warrant was also issued for a … Read more
The nation’s largest fitness company “indefinitely” suspended its allegedly menacing CEO amid a growing number of federal investigations into possible fraud, according to multiple reports. Xponential Fitness – which has more than 3,000 boutique studios under brands such as PureBarre, Rumble and CycleBar — is under federal scrutiny over allegations that the company misled both … Read more
A bill aimed at barring landlords from using algorithms to set rents died in the Colorado Senate on Wednesday after a group of moderate Democrats joined Republicans to reject a more forceful House version of the measure. The crux of the disagreement was an adopted amendment that bill backers charged had been written by a … Read more
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant. That sergeant went on to work … Read more
Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made on the eve of the trial over the high-profile accident involving Tesla’s driver-assistant technology. Tesla faces a … Read more
An elementary school initiative that explores math concepts while incorporating Indigenous practices is making its way into classrooms across Canada. The Métis-math collaboration is part of a larger collection spearheaded by mathematics education researcher Ruth Beatty of Lakehead University in 2012. It’s called First Nations and Métis Math Voices. “One of the main reasons we started … Read more
All things considered, Lindsay Minter feels lucky. Lindsay Minter in Aurora on Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo by Eli Imadali/Special to The Denver Post) She only needed to have a tooth pulled after she was hit in the face with a projectile from a rubber ball grenade flung in her direction by an unidentified Denver police … Read more
One of the US’s largest animal blood banks has allegedly been drawing its supply from “emaciated, sick, injured, elderly and/or medicated” cats and dogs — and selling it to veterinarians nationwide despite safety concerns, according to a bombshell report currently being investigated by authorities in Indiana. The disturbing allegations were lodged against the Veterinarians’ Blood … Read more
