BIGHORN SHEEP WANDERS INTO OFFICE PARK
A bighorn sheep wandered into west Loveland and circled the headquarters of Group Publishing Wednesday afternoon.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said bighorn sightings that far into human population centers are rare, but the ram probably came from Big Thompson Canyon.
“There aren’t very large herds, but there are bighorn sheep up that way in the canyon,” Churchill said. “Normally they keep to themselves, they stick to their herds.”
The also ram peered in through the glass door of the Christian publishing house’s staff entrance. “Our HR team made sure he didn’t get in because he didn’t have a proper badge,” Group Publishing CEO Thom Schultz joked.
Bid to preserve Blue Parrot sign stalled.
A bid to preserve the neon Blue Parrot restaurant sign that has hung above Louisville’s Main Street for more than half a century has been stalled over rebranding concerns.
The new owners of 640 Main St. want to rebrand the building as “The Corner in Louisville” and this month plan a grand reopening of the huge restaurant space retooled as collection of eateries and shops.
They want to maintain the look and feel of the sign, but the “Blue Parrot” name would have to go.
Mark Oberholzer of 1882 Ventures, the developer behind the revival, doesn’t own the Blue Parrot name, and he says the former owners of the restaurant, who still bottle Blue Parrot spaghetti sauce in town, are worried about confusion if the name remains on the building.
Lake County undersheriff accused of harassment.
Three female employees of the Lake County sheriff’s office say they have been repeatedly sexually harassed by the undersheriff.
The women, who work as 911 dispatchers, say Undersheriff Fernando Mendoza has continually made lewd comments to them and sent them inappropriate text messages — sometimes while they are on duty.
The dispatchers and a female victim’s advocate who works for the sheriff’s office, said pleas to Sheriff Rodney Fenske fell on deaf ears. But Fenske says his office is reviewing the investigation and plans to make changes, although he would not elaborate, citing the pending release of the investigation’s results.
Montrose man accused of killing woman he thought was his father
.A Montrose man accused of killing an Olathe woman allegedly told detectives he believed she was his father after sex-reassignment surgery to avoid being held responsible for “bad things.”
Olathe police officer Brian Wright wrote in an arrest affidavit that Joseph Saur, 19, was “clearly under the influence of some kind of drug” when he arrived at the police station late Sunday to report he shot his father in self-defense.
Saur’s actual father, who lives in Montrose, told investigators he had grown concerned about his son’s alleged methamphetamine use.
Coroner says infant was suffocated.
A 16-year-old girl was arrested two days after she allegedly suffocated her infant daughter after she gave birth at home, shoving a rock down the baby’s throat.
Alaya Dotson is being charged as an adult and remains in custody.
According to the Denver Coroner’s Office, Amekah Dotson was suffocated on Sept. 8, the same day she was born.
Denver police investigators say Alaya’s mother called 911 after finding her daughter laying in the backyard and the baby wrapped in a bloody blanket.
Greeley will pay $150,000 for wrongly euthanizing dogs.
Years after committing what a federal court judge called an “egregious injustice,” the city of Greeley will pay a former resident $150,000 for wrongly seizing her 15 Lhasa apso dogs, which were put up for adoption or euthanized.
The dogs were taken from Linda Robbins during a traffic stop in 2012. When she could not pay $45,000 in impound fees racked up before she was cleared of charges against her, the dogs were turned over to the Humane Society.
She sued the city in 2015.