RTD touts 2012 bus safety record

Regional Transportation District officials says new attention to detail and refresher courses for drivers led to a huge drop in bus accidents in 2012.RTD's annual Bus Accident Report categorizes bus accidents by division, type of collision, the direction the bus was moving, if it was bus stop incident, hours on duty and time of day.In nearly every category, there was a decrease in ...

Men plead not guilty in Feros Bar stabbing deaths

< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Three men pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges they slaughtered five people last October at a Denver bar.Attorneys for brothers Joseph and Lionel Hill had asked for more time before entering a plea.Denver District Judge John Madden denied the request and entered not guilty pleas for the Hills and a third defendant, Dexter Lewis.The Denver district ...

Officials find nothing alarming after search of Thornton school

Coursework and classes were not affected by an unconfirmed report of two people with a gun near Thornton High School on Friday that drew a massive police response to the area."Everyone is OK," said Kim Walsh, executive director of the Adams 12 Five Star School District. Final exams were wrapping up at the high school just before noon when police received a report of a gunman that they ...

Xcel fined $150000 for 2007 Colorado accident

Xcel Energy will pay penalties of $150,000 to settle federal safety citations stemming from the accident that caused five deaths at a Georgetown, Colo. power plant. The settlement was reached with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In 2011, Xcel was acquitted in a criminal case of violating workplace safety rules at the Cabin Creek generating plant in the mountains west of ...

Cigarette blamed for 3-alarm fire

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The improper disposal of a cigarette is to blame for a 3-alarm fire in Fort Collins Tuesday morning that badly damaged a three-story apartment complex and displaced 30 people, investigators said Friday.The fire at the Buffalo Run Apartments on East Lincoln Avenue and South Lemay Avenue was first reported just before 4 a.m. Damage was estimated at $400,000, according to ...