CITY ISSUES OVER 1,100 MARRIAGE LICENSES
August turned out to be a recordsetting month in Denver, with the most marriage licenses issued in a month in city history.
The clerk’s office issued 1,123 licenses to couples last month, besting the previous record: 985 licenses issued in August 2017. The summer matrimony surge followed a decline in licenses issued during the first three months of 2018.
Last year was the busiest year on record for marriage licenses in Denver, with the clerk’s office issuing 8,406. The city began issuing licenses to samesex couples in 2014.
Orphaned bear cubs in Estes Park get new lease on life at rehab center.
NORTE» Three black DEL bear cubs that were orphaned last week after their mother was killed by wildlife officials for breaking into homes in Estes Park in search of food have been transported to a wildlife rehab facility in southern Colorado.
The mother bear had taken on the moniker “Scarface” in town because of wounds she received to her snout two years ago when she touched a power line. Wildlife officials said she had broken into three homes and caused damage at a local business this summer while searching for nourishment.
“Due to her comfort being around people, she was deemed a threat to human health and safety,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said Thursday.
The cubs are now at the agency’s Frisco Creek wildlife facility in the San Luis Valley. The center will keep the cubs separated from humans as it tries to prepare the animals for winter hibernation.
“We are not taking them away. We are not putting them in a zoo. We are not killing them,” said Michael Sirochman, Frisco Creek wildlife facility manager. “We are successfully returning them to the wild once they are ready to be selfsufficient.”
Man gets 52 years in prison for stabbing, beating woman with a shovel.
COUNTY» A man was WELD sentenced this week to 52 years behind bars for a brutal attack he carried out on a woman nearly two years ago in Hudson.
A jury in May found John Cordova, 43, guilty of two counts of firstdegree assault for stabbing a woman 23 times before beating her in the back of the head and neck with a shovel. Weld County Chief District Attorney Benjamin Whitney said nerve damage has limited the woman’s use of the right side of her body, and she is learning again to speak.
Man pleads guilty to threatening CU athletes.
A Minnesota man on Thursday pleaded guilty in federal court to stalking and making deadly threats to former and current female athletes on the University of Colorado’s cross country team.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Denver said in a news release that Eric Ronald Bolduan,
43, downloaded images of the athletes from various internet and social networking sites and placed their pictures alongside images he got from porn sites of women who re sembled the victims.
He would then upload both images to adult websites, naming the victim, her school and her contact information. Federal prosecutors said the purpose of Bolduan’s actions was to portray the victim “as involved in pornography and promiscuous behavior.”
Authorities said Bolduan emailed links of the porno
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Cgraphic postings to the victims and to people the victims were associated with, including professors, teammates and family members. He would then send threatening emails to the victims, “discussing how he was stalking her with the ultimate plan to rape, torture and kill her,” the release said.
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