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Xcel Energy, various Colorado fire departments investigating natural gas odor across Denver metro area
Xcel Energy and several fire departments and other agencies in and around Denver say they’ve received a number of calls about a natural gas smell across the metro area and are now investigating the source.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office appears to be the first agency to comment on the smell, tweeting around 3:45 a.m. Sunday about people in the Highlands Ranch area smelling natural gas. The sheriff’s office said that there’s no need to call 911 unless you hear a hissing sound or smell natural gas indoors.
South Metro Fire Rescue tweeted about the reports soon after, saying there had been reports of the odor in Highlands Ranch as well as Centennial.
Throughout the morning, Aurora Fire Rescue and then the Denver Fire Department also said they received reports of the odor across the metro area, with the former agency saying that Xcel Energy was investigating the source of the smell and working to resolve it.
CBS News Colorado reached out to Xcel for comment Sunday morning but did not immediately receive a response.
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Colorado elections clerk set to be released from prison Monday based on her sentence commutation
DENVER, Colo. (AP) — Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence for her role in a scheme to copy her county’s election system.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters’ sentence last month following pressure from President Donald Trump.
The Colorado Department of Corrections would not confirm the time of Peters’ release, and a representative for her attorney said Peters would not speak to the media when she is freed.
Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell — who himself denied that Trump lost the White House in 2020 — and the person copied the county’s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.
Peters then joined Lindell onstage at a “cybersymposium” that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.
Trump had championed Peters’ case, but because the 70-year-old was convicted under state law, he did not have the power to pardon her. Instead, the president pressured Polis to do so, lambasting him on social media and disinviting him to a White House meeting with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado and relocated the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.
Polis commuted Peters’ sentence on May 15. In a letter, he wrote that although Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison, the sentence was “extremely unusual and lengthy” for a first-time non-violent offender.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the move a “dark day for democracy” and said it amounted to ”selling out our state’s justice system for Trump.”
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