Colorado
New year, new players, same standard for the USL Champion Colorado Springs Switchbacks
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Last November, the City for Champions became the City of Champions. It’s a new year, and the standard is the standard in Colorado Springs.
“We have principles, we have basics, we have a foundation that we want to build off and it’s making sure that even the return on players and the new players and the staff were all aligned with all of that sort of stuff and making sure that we have all that stuff nailed down and then we can start to move forward. If it’s a cast of not putting the horse before the car,” said head coach James Chambers.
“Accept anything else at this point. The staff is worth hard to get guys into our locker room with a lot of character and guys that fit our system, style of play but 1st and foremost are good people. So, when you bring those guys in the locker room and we keep the guys that have been in our locker room. it’s very easy,” Captain Matt Mahoney said.
Colorado Springs hasn’t clicked the first three games, a main reason is self inflicting mistakes..
“Simple mistakes, individual errors at moments and that happens when half the team is new as well. So, we are trying to figure stuff out, that’s how it was in the beginning of last year and not an excuse but we’ve got two more points than we had last year and we are trying to improve,” said Mahoney.
For newcomer Levonte Johnson, a big thing he noticed is actually the elevation advantage.
“Just being in the stadium itself, the elevation. I first came here it was tough to play in. I think that definitely plays a big part in the success here and just teams mentally not even so much physically just mentally coming to try to prepare and play us and just knowing it’s going to be a tough game with our press and trying to impose our will on the other team,” said Johnson.
For every championship programs, once you get a taste of winning, you always want more.
“Winning is addicting. We want to win and so, it’s a mentality. This club is not going to set up just for a championship. We’re going to try and go win it back-to-back this year and that’s been our goal to do that. Honestly, we have kind of forgotten about last year. We can’t keep speaking about last year, it’s a brand-new year, new teams, new players. We have to go out and show that we deserve to be champions again,” Mahoney said.
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Colorado mother says Lakewood crash killed son, left 2 of her children critically injured as driver is arrested
A mother is grieving after a crash in the Denver metro area last weekend left her son brain-dead and two of her other children fighting for their lives.
Lakewood police say 22-year-old Andrew Logan Miller has been arrested in connection with the crash, which happened Dec. 6 around 7:30 p.m. near Kipling Parkway and West 6th Avenue.
Police say Miller was driving an SUV southbound on Kipling Parkway at a high rate of speed when it collided with a bus carrying a wrestling team from Central High School, which is located in Grand Junction in Mesa County.
Sixteen people were taken to hospitals.
Among the injured were three siblings who were riding inside the SUV.
On Friday, their mother, Suleyma Gonzalez, identified them as Julio Gonzalez, 18, Analelly Gonzalez, 17, and Christopher Gonzalez, 14.
Analelly and Christopher remain in critical condition. Julio will never wake up.
“I didn’t want to believe it, until they had to do the second testing where they didn’t find blood going through his brain,” she said. “My other two are in comas.”
Gonzalez said doctors ultimately declared Julio brain-dead.
She describes her children as disciplined students and ROTC members with plans for the future.
“Two of my kids were going to graduate this year,” she said. “No drugs. No alcohol. They were good kids.”
Gonzalez confirmed that Miller, who was driving the SUV at the time of the crash, was her daughter’s boyfriend.
“I know he loved my daughter,” she said. “I don’t think he did this on purpose or intentionally. It was an accident.”
Police say the investigation is ongoing, but believe speed played a major role in the crash.
Miller was arrested Wednesday night and is facing multiple charges, including:
• Vehicular assault (7 counts)
• Speeding 40 mph or more over the limit
• Reckless driving
• Child abuse (2 counts)
• Reckless endangerment
“My kids know when you get in somebody’s car, there’s always a risk. Always,” she said.
Julio’s organs will be donated. He’s on life support, while the hospital searches for matches.
“He wanted to give to the world,” she said. “Now that I can’t get him back, we want to give life to somebody else.”
Miller is currently being held in the Denver County Jail and is awaiting transfer to the Jefferson County Jail. His bond and court appearance have not yet been announced.
Lakewood police say the investigation remains active.
Gonzalez, a single mother of five, says her focus now is on her surviving children and getting clarity.
“I just want answers.”
Colorado
DOJ sues Colorado Secretary of State for failure to release state voter information
DENVER, Colo. (KKTV) – The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced Thursday a lawsuit against the Colorado Secretary of State for failure to produce state voter information.
Secretary of State Jena Griswold claims the DOJ sent a “broad” request for the voter registration rolls on May 12.
Griswold says her office complied with the request and “shared the publicly available data consistent with applicable law.” However, the lawsuit against Griswold says that her office did not respond to the letter.
Griswold sent a letter in November signed by several Secretaries of State to the DOJ and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting clarification on how the data would be used, but she claims neither replied to the questions in the letter.
The lawsuit goes on to allege that DOJ attorney Eric Neff followed up by emailing Secretary Griswold on Dec. 1, requesting Colorado’s Statewide Voter Registration list.
Griswold said this request asked the office to share unredacted voter data, including a voter’s full name, date of birth, residential address, and complete state driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.
Griswold responded by email on Dec. 3, stating, “We received your request. We will not be producing unredacted voter files or signing the MOU,” the complaint alleges.
The lawsuit cites the Civil Rights Act, which gives the United States Attorney General the power to demand the production, inspection, and analysis of the statewide voter registration lists.
The DOJ is requesting a judge to declare that Griswold violated the Civil Rights Act and to order her to provide the current electronic copy of Colorado’s statewide voter registration list.
Griswold’s office released the following statement:
The DOJ released the following statement regarding the lawsuit:
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