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Arapahoe County hosting emerald ash borer info session after Littleton sighting
AURORA | Forestry experts will equip Arapahoe County residents with facts about the iridescent green beetle besieging Colorado ash trees May 2, close to a year after the county’s first emerald ash borer sighting in Littleton. Emerald ash borers lay their eggs on the outside of ash trees, causing...
Details emerge of alleged abuse of developmentally disabled Strasburg man
Two more family members have been arrested and charged with physical and psychological abuse of a developmentally disabled man in their care. Witnesses have said that the family members beat, choked, kicked and punched their relative Oscar, who functions at the level of a 5- to 8-year-old.The newly released arrest affidavits from the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office state that Oscar was often deprived of food, made to sleep on a laundry room floor or in a barn and was regularly beaten for perceived infractions.In February, Arapahoe County authorities arrested and charged Gerilynn "Lynn" Amaro, 71, with seven counts of assault...
See the Top 5 counties where state troopers investigated distracted driving crashes
The Colorado State Patrol on Thursday released a list of the counties where they investigated the highest number of distracted driving crashes last year.The top five counties where the 2023 data shows "inattentive to driving" crashes appear to have happened were Adams County (1), Douglas County (2), El Paso County (3), Jefferson County (4) and Larimer County (5). "Driving should never come second to any other task in the car," said Col. Matthew C. Packard, the chief of the CSP. The data also shows that the highest number of distracted driving incidents in Colorado were in the summer and that people in their 20s and 30s were responsible for the highest number of incidents. "Remember, we are all out on the roads together. There's no lane reserved for you, so you can drive distracted safely. Make driving your primary focus and arrive safely at your destination," CSP said in a news release. Packard said troopers investigated a total of 566 distracted driving crashes last year where there was a major injury or someone was killed.
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