Tag: Deaths
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Actor Penny Dwyer taught her daughter to laugh at sadness
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When my friend Penny Dwyer started losing her hair to chemotherapy, she did not despair. She let her 17-year-old daughter cut off what was left of it and turn it into a silly Tik-Tok video. “I gave her the worst haircut of her life,” Becca…
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Jim Havey, lovingly known as Colorado’s Ken Burns
Jim Havey, who came to be known as the Ken Burns of Colorado with his many films documenting the history of the Rocky Mountain West, died Jan. 19. He was 74. His films – notably “Colfax Avenue,” “Broomfield,” “Centennial Statehouse,” “The Great Divide” and “The Five States of Colorado” – have educated Coloradans for decades and have…
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Local actor Eli Stewart, 34, was a father for all seasons
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Local actor Eli Stewart was a remarkably quiet person, says one of his many area stage directors, Robert Michael Sanders – “until it was time to be funny.” Then, it was go-time. Stewart had the year of his life as a local actor in 2018, but…
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Multiple pedestrians hit and killed in the Denver region
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado recorded the highest number of pedestrian fatalities in the state’s history in 2022 with 115 people killed while walking on Colorado roads. Denver foot traffic made up around 30% of those calculated deaths with 26. Denver has already recorded 24 fatal pedestrian crashes in…
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Art from the start: Ann Daley lived and loved Western American works
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ann Daley, a major figure at the Denver Art Museum for decades, was a curator to her maternal core. She had an intense curiosity about the world, and she fostered that in her four children. “She definitely instilled in us a sense for appreciating beauty…
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2 dead in apparent domestic violence incident in Jefferson County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two people were shot to death Saturday in Evergreen in what law enforcement suspects was a domestic violence incident, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called to a home in the 30000…
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Colorado’s daily coronavirus diagnoses reach new high since March; state deaths from the virus reach 2,000
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado reported nearly 1,050 new positive coronavirus cases Monday — the most since March, Gov. Jared Polis said Tuesday, when he also noted that deaths from the virus had topped 2,000 in the state. The state sits at 2,009 deaths because of the virus, Polis…
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MAP: 5 of 7 police-involved shootings in Colorado Springs have been fatal in 2019
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five of seven shootings involving Colorado Springs police officers this year ended in fatalities, including Saturday’s shooting that led to the death of 19-year-old De’von Bailey. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office investigates such shootings to avoid conflicts of interest. Click here for continued coverage of the…