Severe weather causes delays at DIA, brings tornadoes to parts of eastern Colorado
Desirea Varra
and last updated 2021-05-22 19:20:16-04
DENVER â It has been an active weather day as severe storms move rapidly north across the plains, prompting the National Weather Service to issue several tornado warnings in parts of eastern Colorado. The storms are also causing delays and diversions at Denver international Airport.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for most of the Eastern Plains and the Front Range, including Denver and parts of the metro area. The watch is in effect until 8 p.m. Saturday. Tornadoes are possible and scattered hail up to tennis ball size is likely in the affected counties.
Drunken driver sentenced to 14 years for killing woman walking on sidewalk
Jana Phillips, 24, was walking home in Aurora in October 2018 when the driver jumped the curb and hit her, and then kept driving. Author: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Updated: 10:42 AM MDT May 21, 2021
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. A man whose blood-alcohol level was well above the legal limit when he drove onto a sidewalk and hit and killed a woman in 2018 was sentenced this week to 14 years in prison, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney s Office.
Several family members of Jana Phillips were in the Arapahoe County courtroom on Wednesday when a judge sentenced the man who killed her, the DA s Office said in a news release.
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Jesse Olivas holds a snapshot outside his home on May 14, as he remembers floodwaters above his knees in the Evergreen Mobile Home Park when the Big Thompson River flooded in September 2013.
It was nearly eight years ago, but Martha Gutierrez still remembers everything that happened on that rainy September night.
“I remember like it was yesterday,” Gutierrez said. “If you talk to a lot of people that went through it, I mean . that s where my home is at. A lot of people broke.”
The small town of Milliken was one of several in Weld County that was hit by days of torrential rains in 2013, leading the South Platte and Big Thompson rivers to overflow. The Evergreen Mobile Home Park where she lived was one of the only places in town destroyed by the flooding.
New outbreaks of COVID-19 identified by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment fell by 22.4 percent over the past week, with dips of similar or even greater size in almost every category tracked by the state during the pandemic. But there was one demographic group that defied the decline: kids.
Outbreaks associated with children make up well over a third of the latest batch, with most of the spread taking place at K-12 schools, where infections of students, the majority of whom have not been vaccinated, are much more common than those involving staffers.
The CDPHE considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location are confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or more cases of respiratory illness with an onset of symptoms within a fourteen-day period are paired with at least one additional COVID-19 diagnosis. The vast majority of businesses and facilities identified as ou
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