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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a withering preliminary report about the late 2017 death of forty-year-old Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee, who suffered crushing chest injuries while working on the Magic Carpet, a motorized beltway used to teach kids how to ski.

The City of Aurora has agreed to pony up $335,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against three members of the Aurora Police Department by OyZhana Williams over a 2015 incident during which she was roughed up and had her head stomped in the parking lot of a hospital where her boyfriend was being treated for a gunshot wound.

The average starting salary for a 2018 college graduate who lands a job in Denver is just over $53,000, according to a new study. The total is a bit higher than the national average, and that’s also the case for average salaries in ten specific professions. However, wages are currently higher in seven of nine other major cities analyzed as part of the report, as seen by data shared here.

The fourteen-year-old has become the latest chapter in the very twisted family story of Ken Mueller.

First, CSU student Michaella Surat was prosecuted for alleged obstruction and resisting arrest even though viral cell-phone video from last year showed her being body slammed by a Fort Collins police officer. Then, after a mistrial was declared, delaying the the case until August, Surat’s attorney, David Lane, released the cops’ body camera footage in an effort to prove that she was the victim of excessive force. And now, the district attorney’s office that’s going after Surat wants Lane to be sanctioned for sharing the images with the media.

Many of the traffic signals in Denver seem so long that drivers may be tempted to time them with an hour glass. And Michael Finochio, traffic engineering manager for Denver Public Works, acknowledges that signal time lag has lengthened over the past ten to twenty years in many locations in response to an increase in volume.