1ST COMPLETED SECTION OF I-70 PROJECT OPENS
The first completed section of roadway of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s massive Central 70 project will open to drivers starting late Wednesday.
That’s when traffic will be routed from the old lanes of the Peoria Street bridge to the new structure. The traffic on the bridge will be shifted on the following dates and times:
• Wednesday from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Thursday: Traffic shifts on eastbound I-70 over Peoria Street.
• Thursday from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Friday: Traffic shifts on westbound I-70 over Peoria Street.
Traffic will be reduced to one lane overnight while the new lanes are striped and motorists are guided onto the new Peoria bridge. Once traffic switches to the new bridge, crews will demolish and rebuild the existing bridge.
A total of 22 new bridges, including the one over Peoria Street, are part of the work being done along the 10-mile stretch of I-70 between Brighton Boulevard and Chambers Road. The east part will be completed before the central and west sections. The work includes widening the highway and a new I-270 flyover structure and the I-70 bridge over Quebec Street.
Trailer with $100K in fossils reported stolen.
A trailer containing fossils worth more than $100,000 has been reported stolen from a parking lot.
KCNC-TV reported that the sliver-toned trailer was taken Sunday from the Crowne Plaza Convention Center and Hotel lot in Aurora.
Officials say the 20-footlong trailer contains 13 fossils including at least four valued at more than $10,000 each.
Officials say the items belonging to fossil and mineral supply company GeoDecor Inc. include a 92 million-year-old fossil shark specimen valued at $50,000.
The fossilized skull of a giant predatory fish from Kansas is valued at $20,000, while a fossil garfish is valued at $18,000.
A stingray and fish fossilized in limestone from Wyoming is believed to be 51 million years old.
Police call for man barricaded in apartment turns into death investigation.
Denver police are investigating a suspicious death after responding to a call about a man barricaded in a downtown apartment.
Police released few details Monday night.
Department spokesman Tyrone Campbell said he didn’t know what prompted the original call to police about the barricaded man, how the barricade call led to a death investigation or where the body in question was found.
“It’s really early into the investigation,” Campbell said.
Officers arrived at 4:56 p.m. at the apartment building at 1255 19th St., in the Union Station neighborhood.
A man barricaded in an apartment refused to come out for an hour before surrendering to police, Campbell said.
The case then turned into a death investigation, though Campbell couldn’t say how or why. He also did not know the deceased person’s gender or age.
The man was taken into custody in connection to the barricade situation. The man is not currently held in connection to the death.