Boulder County News Archives

Boulder County rescue crews have found two hikers who were reported missing about 4:45 p.m. Friday in the area of Green Mountain in unincorporated Boulder County.

Officials from Golden, Boulder and Boulder County presented a plan to improve specific intersections of Highway 6 and Highway 93 to the Transportation Legislative Review Committee.

Joseph Cardillo, accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl and drinking her urine, testified during his trial today.

A former Louisville woman serving a 16-year sentence in the death of her infant son has been granted new counsel.

The National Weather Service Thursday forecast additional snowfall for parts of Colorado blanketed by 10 inches to 20 inches of fall snow.

The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled that a medical marijuana provider must have personal contact with patients to be designated as a primary caregiver.

Boulder County's famed "Jane Doe" - the homicide victim whose identity has been a mystery for more than five decades - was identified today by the sheriff as a woman who went missing from Arizona.

A A A' Prosecutors said Tuesday they haven't decided whether to file charges against the parents accused of falsely reporting their son was in a runaway balloon, sparking a massive rescue attempt before the boy was found at the family's Fort Collins home.

A 43-year-old Boulder woman has been arrested on suspicion of burning a preschool-aged boy with a cigarette twice - once behind the ear and once on his face, according to Boulder police.

A former Longmont church worker who pleaded guilty in 2008 to using his position to sexually exploit a teenage girl could face up to 24 years in prison if he his found guilty of six probation violations, according to the Boulder County District Attorney's Office.

Many Boulder city officials, past and present, agree that more needs to be done to recruit Hispanics, Latinos and other minorities into local government.

Boulder County health officials are warning people to stay away from the former Great Western Sugar Mill just outside Longmont.

Defense attorneys for a Longmont man accused of shooting his friend to death on a Boulder street in January would like jurors to imagine that the victim brandished a gun first, prosecutor Katharina Booth said during closing arguments in Joseph Abeyta's first-degree murder trial this morning.

Bill Glinkman, left, and Bob DelPizzo compare signatures on ballots that have arrived at the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder s Office on Monday.

The Boulder Cup drew 3,000 spectators last year and has become one of the largest cyclocross events in the country.

A 22-year-old man was found dead in his home in the area of Olde Stage and Red Hill roads on Monday evening, according to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.

Wildlife officials spent much of Tuesday hazing a black bear near the foot of Mount Sanitas, west of the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine.

If the parents of the boy who did not float away on a balloon hope to profit from their newfound fame, a Colorado law could prevent it.

Zane Marks, 3, of Boulder, is held by his mother, Aspen, while given an H1N1 shot by Sophia Yager, a nurse for Boulder County Public Health, last week.

Representatives of groups that are interested in signing up a neighborhood for a visit from the Energy Corps can contact Beth Beckel at bbeckel@bouldercounty.org or 303-441-3502. On Saturdays from November through April, Boulder County's new Energy Corps -- armed with low-flow showerheads and clotheslines -- will be hitting neighborhoods to battle ...

Brian Grimes, of Boulder, looks over a box of seconds at the Morton's Orchards booth at the Boulder Farmers Market last month.

Property owners' financial problems may be helping to drive up property-tax delinquencies, according to Boulder County Treasurer Bob Hulling-horst. As of Friday, there were still nearly $2.8 million in unpaid 2009 taxes for 1,093 Boulder County properties on the list of tax liens to be sold at auction later this month, according to chief deputy ...

On Thursday, Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett dropped the charges against 35-year-old pregnant caregiver, Sherri Versfelt of Nederland, CO, who had been scheduled for a jury trial next week.

A grass fire burning at Eldorado Canyon State Park southwest of Boulder is 75 percent contained and is expected to be extinguished within the hour, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office said.

A driver fleeing police in Longmont last night ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle, injuring that car's driver and himself.

David McCoy U.S. marshals in Cleveland arrested a convicted sex offender accused of luring men to his Boulder apartment with promises of jobs and then molesting them.

A city defined in part by its pristine and expansive open space system is considering a pilot program to charge residents from outside Boulder County to use certain trails.

Several bouquets of flowers have been placed at the west entrance of the Basemar shopping center in memory of Carl Frank Welter who was killed Monday after pulling out in front of a north bound car on his scooter in Boulder, Colorado October 13, 2009.

Boulder County Public Health offers flu clinics at its Boulder and Longmont offices.

In 1989, more than 40,000 people flooded Pearl Street for the Mall Crawl, resulting in an unruly event that had the police scrambling to break up fights.

The Boulder County Treasurer's Office has scheduled its annual tax lien auction for Oct.

The number of property tax defaults in Boulder County is up 42 percent from last year, officials said.

Co-owner Kevin Daly's dog Franklin can't decide between the award-winning brews Temperance and Hop Vivant at the Mountain Sun.

A former FBI witness pleaded guilty Thursday in the deaths of four people and was sentenced to 70 years in prison.

Police are on the lookout for two men who reportedly attacked and robbed a woman outside her Boulder County apartment Tuesday evening.

It's probably not enough to make the inmates want to stay, but Boulder County hopes to install solar panels and a biomass heating system at the jail to cut utility costs.

Prosecutors have filed two counts of second-degree murder against a Colorado inmate with links to four missing or dead people.

A 4-month-old boy who prosecutors believe was badly injured by his father died Monday afternoon, according to the Boulder County Coroner.

Lance Hering, the Marine who spent two years on the lam after staging his disappearance in 2006, reached a deal with prosecutors this morning that could mean a future without a felony conviction on his record.

Famuer Rasmussen Jr. and five other farmers filed what they thought was a routine request to grow genetically modified sugar beets on public land in Colorado's Boulder County.

A bottle of sweetened coffee creamer, with the word "anthrax" printed on it, prompted a phalanx of emergency officials to swarm the Boulder County Recycling Center Friday to see if the container held the deadly substance.

Inmate Kevin Halfen loads a massive washing machine with towels while doing laundry Wednesday at the Boulder County Jail.

It's probably not enough to make the inmates want to stay, but Boulder County hopes to install solar panels and a biomass heating system at the jail to cut utility costs.

Famuer Rasmussen Jr. and five other farmers filed what they thought was a routine request to grow genetically modified sugar beets on public land in Colorado's Boulder County.

Riley Hathaway, 7, closes her eyes and cringes in anticipation of getting a flu shot from nurse Chris Shepherd at Boulder County Public Health on Wednesday.