2 FEMALES KILLED IN COLLISION WITH TRAIN
A Union Pacific freight train crashed into a car and killed two females at a train crossing near Platteville early Tuesday.
The train crossing does not have crossing bars or lights, authorities said.
The names and ages of the two females killed in the crash have not been released.
The crash involving a Nissan Altima happened shortly before 6 a.m. near U.S. 85 and Weld County Road 34. Platteville police Chief Carl Dwyer said one witness said the car did not appear to stop at a stop sign.
The northbound freight train carrying packages blared its horns 15 seconds before arriving at the intersection, but couldn’t avoid a collision with the car going east- bound on the county road, Union Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South said.
Fire at Littleton senior apartment complex was accidental, investigators say.
Littleton Fire Rescue has classified Saturday morning’s deadly fire at an apartment complex for seniors as accidental, the agency said in a release Tuesday.
“The declaration of accidental eliminates the possibility that it was arson,” Eric Hurst, spokesman for South Metro Fire, said.
The “accidental” ruling is broad, Hurst said, and investigators will need more time to determine the exact cause of the fire. Officials said Sunday that the full investigation could take weeks, complicated by the fact that nobody saw the fire ignite.
The fire, which started 5:30 a.m. Saturday at The Windmere apartments on South Datura Street, killed 70-year-old Michael Craig Mitchell and hospitalized 13 others.
Man sentenced to life in prison for killing homeless man.
A Louisiana man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Denver judge sentenced him Monday for the murder of a homeless man he shot and killed during a robbery.
A jury convicted Makhail Purpera, 31, in August of first- and second-degree murder for killing 54-year-old Wayland Busby on Nov. 5, 2016, according to a news release from the Denver District Attorney’s office.
Busby lived in a tent by the South Platte River near the intersection with Dartmouth Avenue in south Denver where he collected scrap metal. Purpera was attempting to steal Busby’s possessions when he shot and killed Busby, police said.