BROOMFIELD WILL BE HOME TO RESEARCH FACILITY
Scientists trucked through a little mud Friday to celebrate the start of construction on a $22 million research facility at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield.
The two-story National Center for Atmospheric Research facility will be 42,391 square feet, which is more than double the size of the previous building, which was built in the 1970s and has been demolished. The building will support scientific campaigns in Colorado and around the world that could lead to new advances in weather, climate and air quality research.
The National Science Foundation, a government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the nonmedical fields of science and engineering, is funding the project.
The new facility will expand lab space for calibrating scientific instruments, according to NCAR. It also will be used for field campaign planning and briefing, according to a news release.
NCAR aircraft fly missions over every ocean and continent to learn about hurricanes, tornadoes and other severe storms, as well as climate change and air quality.
Man convicted of vehicular homicide in doublefatal crash in Lakewood.
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J E FF E RSON C who injected methamphetamine hours before crashing a stolen vehicle and killing two men in Lakewood has been convicted on felony charges, including vehicular homicide and vehicular eluding.
William Lloyd JokaySzilagji, 28, was convicted by a Jefferson County jury on Thursday on 24 counts in the deaths of Jacob Bowen, 26, and Jesse Edmonds, 30, according to the 1st Judicial District.
On May 19 at a traffic light at West Alameda Parkway and South Kipling Street, officers saw a stolen Toyota, driven by Jokay-Szilagji, run a red light and slam into a Nissan driven by Bowen. The Toyota was speeding and had no lights on. Edmonds was a passenger in the Nissan. Both men were killed. Two women in the Toyota suffered severe injuries.
Teen faces felony charges for pot vape pen incident at Basalt High School. A 19-year-old who entered Basalt High School on Tuesday and allegedly gave a marijuana vape pen to four students who used it in the bathroom was charged with five felonies Thursday.
In addition, Ivan Henriquez Lopez, who is on probation for providing a pellet gun to a minor less than a year ago, could face decades in prison for the alleged drug offenses because they took place on school property, a prosecutor said.
The incident came to the attention of school officials Tuesday afternoon, when a student reported smelling a strong odor of marijuana coming from a girls bathroom, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Colorado, other Western states to study big game rangeland. AHO»
B OIS E , I D Idaho has been awarded a grant to study how elk herds move through a northern Idaho migration corridor also used by grizzly bears and wolverines.
Other states that received grants for big game rangeland studies are Colorado, Arizona, California, Montana, Nevada, New
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