DENVER, Colorado, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks on June 18, 2024, by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke announcing a former Colorado resident sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crimes and firearm offenses related to mass shooting at Club Q: * * * As Prepared for Delivery Good afternoon. My name is Kristen Clarke, and I am the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. I'm joined today by Acting   more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Anderson Lee Aldrich, 24, formerly of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced to 55 concurrent life sentences to run consecutive to 190 years in prison after pleading guilty to 74 hate crimes and firearms charges related to the Nov. 19, 2022, mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQIA+ establishment in Colorado Springs. According to the plea agreement, Aldrich admitted to murdering five people, injuring 19, an  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, June 19 -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news on June 18, 2024: The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.4 million in first-year funding to the University of Colorado Denver to manage and improve DS-Connect: The Down Syndrome Registry. Launched by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in 2013, DS-Connect  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal court on June 11 enjoined a Colorado company and its owner from manufacturing, distributing or selling unauthorized vaping products. In a complaint filed on June 6, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the government alleged that Boosted LLC, also known as Boosted E-Juice, and its owner, Cory Vigil, violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by introducing or delivering   more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:24-cv-01705; D. Colo. filed June 18, 2024) involving Western Sierra Resource Corp., Roger Johnson and Dennis Atkins: * * * SEC Charges Colorado Mining Company and its Executives with Fraud * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it filed charges against Colorado-based penny-stock issuer Western Sierra Resource Corporation, its Chief Executive Officer Roger Jo  more