VOTERS SAY NO TO STOPPING DEVELOPMENT
A slowgrowth effort in Morrison took a stumble this week when voters chose not to stymie plans for a 1,350home community on the east side of C470 known as Red Rocks Ranch.
In a special election Tuesday, Morrison voters struck down two ballot measures that would have changed the zoning designation and reincorporated the 345acre parcel back into the town. The moves had been proposed by a group of residents who say Red Rocks Ranch would be too dense and would create too much traffic at the doorstep of the historic town.
One dead, one wounded after LoDo shooting.
A shooting on Market Street in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood left one man dead and another in critical condition early Friday.
Two people were shot outside a business in the 1400 block of Market Street shortly before 2 a.m., said Doug Schepman, Denver police spokesman. Both men were taken to a hospital.
One was pronounced dead, and the second remains in critical condition, Schepman said. The coroner’s office will determine the identity of the deceased victim, he said.
No arrests have been made, Schepman said.
Denver man sentenced to 40 years in prison for fatal South Park Hill shooting.
A Denver man was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for a 2017 shooting death.
Corey Davis, 31, pleaded guilty in August to seconddegree murder for the death of 42yearold Christopher Moody, according to the district attorney’s office.
On Nov. 6, Davis shot Moody in the chest as the victim sat in a car in the 2100 block of Olive Street in Denver’s South Park Hill neighborhood.
Fountain woman gets two years in $5 million medical billing scheme.
KY.» A Fountain LOUISVILLE, woman has been sentenced to about two years in federal prison for fraudulently billing insurance companies for $5 million by using unsuspecting chiropractors in Kentucky.
A federal judge sentenced 40yearold Claudia Lopez this week. Lopez also will serve three years of supervised release.
The U.S. attorney’s office said Lopez and five others recruited the chiropractors in 2012 to obtain and use the chiropractors’ names to fraudulently bill insurance providers.
After that, they recruited employees from a nearby business to seek chiropractic services from the clinics. Federal prosecutors say the clinics billed more than $5 million for muscle relaxant injections that never occurred using the employees’ personal identification.
The court also ordered Lopez to pay more than $232,000 restitution.
Man arrested in connection with trailer park death.
A man is in custody on charges of firstdegree murder after police responding to a 911 call discovered the body of a deceased man in a home at the Landmark Trailer Park on Wednesday night.
Erasmo Rubio Jr., 37, is being held at the Morgan County Jail.
Rubio turned himself in at the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office and was arrested and jailed on a charge of firstdegree murder. — Staff and wire reports
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