Greeley police will be placing wanted posters in the Glenmere Park area today, trying to find a teen-aged girl who assaulted a runner in the park last week.
And, some of the people involved may have taken video of the assault.
The incident occurred at about 5:15 p.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 24, according to Greeley police spokesman Sgt. Joe Tymkowych.
Police reports state the victim, a 47-year-old Greeley woman, was jogging in the park when she saw a large group of teens surrounding a girl who was beating up another girl.
“She shouted at the girls to stop,” Tymkowych said, “and when they started yelling back at her, she said she was calling the police.”
The woman told police the girls in the group were calling her names and threatening her.
As the woman took out her cell phone to call 911, one of the teenaged girls in the group rushed at her and hit her several times in the face. The woman said the girls in the crowd were encouraging the girl to beat up the woma

A developmentally disabled man whose mother said has “a child’s mind and a man’s libido” will spend the next 10 years to life in prison for the 2001 rape of a Denver woman, after a series of failed attempts to remove a label of sexually violent predator from his rap sheet.
Larry Flippo, 39, has been convicted twice of raping the woman after she had come from Denver to visit him after meeting on a telephone date line. His mother said Flippo thought they were going to live happily ever after.
Earlier today, a third judge in his case, Weld District Court Judge Todd Taylor, sentenced him 10 years to life in prison, stating he had little choice in the matter, after treatment providers had refused to treat him while on a probation sentence a previous judge had imposed.
“I don’t have a lot of options at this point, but even if I did, given his history, the trauma the victim experienced and given Mr. Flippo’s own behavior,” a prison sentence w

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit Monday against JBS USA, alleging the meatpacker created a hostile work environment for Somali and Muslim workers due to their race, national origin and religion.

Two lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, both stemming from complaints about worker mistreatment during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in September 2008. While those complaints involved scores of workers’ Ramadan experience at JBS’ Greeley and Grand Island, Neb., facilities, the suits claim that the pattern of discrimination and mistreatment has continued in the plants.

The EEOC reported last September that its investigation into the two facilities found evidence of harassment, retaliation and discrimination against the Muslim workers. The government agency and JBS USA then began a several-month period of conciliation talks.

“That was not successful, and as soon as that failed we looked at the case and decided whether to

DENVER – An abortion question on Colorado ballots this fall is kicking advocates on both sides into campaign mode.

A group of abortion-rights supporters including Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains rallied at the state Capitol on Tuesday. About 100 people there urged voters to defeat a so-called “personhood” amendment that would give citizenship rights to fetuses.

Supporters of the amendment say approval of the measure would likely make abortion illegal.

A similar amendment was soundly defeated by Colorado voters two years ago. But abortion opponents are trying again to have the question decided by voters.

Supporters of the “personhood” amendment are planning to campaign at churches on the Sundays before the election.

The Greeley City Council on Sept. 16 will hold a “Greeley Supports Schools” community forum.

The meeting will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Greeley Recreation Center, 651 10th Ave. The council will solicit ideas and suggestions on how city government, residents and businesses can support Greeley’s students. Online registration is available through the city’s website at www.greeleygov.com at the link www.eventbrite.com/event/813508225 or at (970) 350-9740. Registration deadline is Sept. 7.