Embattled Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas resigned Friday, just weeks before the end of her last term in office, blaming years of friction with fellow commissioners who she says “evicted” her from her office space. In a social media post, Thomas wrote that she’d put up with “4 years of hell” while working alongside commissioners … Read more
Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky says the Trump transition team has spoken to her about Operation Aurora, but the details of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport an unknown number of undocumented immigrants remain scarce. Last week, Jurinsky took the opportunity of a monthly meeting of the council’s public safety policy committee, which she … Read more
Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans held onto his lead over U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo as results continued to trickle in at the tail-end of a tight race to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District. Evans’ lead shrank between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, from 2,529 votes to 1,995 as of 12:29 p.m., with Evans claiming about … Read more
The family of a Nicaraguan asylum-seeker who died from an undiagnosed blood clot is suing the operator of a privately run Aurora detention center that they say ignored his pleas for help following a pattern of preventable detainee deaths. Dorling Peralta Rivera, wife of Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza, and their two children say Mendoza languished … Read more
