CU TO HONOR FIRST BLACK FEMALE GRAD

BOULDER» The University of Colorado will honor its first black female graduate, who wasn’t allowed to walk across the stage in 1918.

Polly McLean, a CU associate professor who researched the woman’s story, will host the inaugural Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Lecture on April 4.

Buchanan was born in Denver in 1884 to former slaves. She earned a degree in German at CU and became a teacher.

She died at age 105 in 1989 and was buried without a headstone until a fellow graduate paid for one, which brought her story to light.

Woman sentenced to prison for abandoning children.

COLORADO

SPRINGS» A 26-year-old Colorado woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for leaving her two young children locked in a bedroom for days while she traveled out of state in March 2017.

Kanesha Godin of Fountain was sentenced Friday for felony child abuse.

Prosecutors say she asked a fellow Fort Carson soldier to check on and feed the children — ages 3 and 4 — once a day.

The children have been turned over to their father.

Man who shot two eighth-graders in 2010 is denied request to leave state hospital without supervision.

JEFFERSON

COUNTY» A man who shot two eighth-graders at Deer Creek Middle School in 2010 and was found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity, will not be allowed to leave the Colorado Mental Health Institute’s grounds without supervision, according to a Jefferson County District Court ruling.

The institute, in December, filed a plea on behalf of Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, seeking the court’s approval for him to leave the grounds of the state hospital without staff supervision.

Eastwood was sentenced indefinitely to the institute, in Pueblo, after being found not guilty by reason of insanity to attempted murder on Oct. 5, 2011.