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Yahoo
10 hours ago
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Several resolutions passed against Karman Line Annexation
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The debate about whether the Karman Line Annexation in Colorado Springs should go through has made its way to southeastern Colorado. Seven government agencies in the area have passed resolutions expressing their opposition to the annexation, which aims to add more than 1,900 acres into Colorado Springs city limits in an attempt to accommodate a growing city. Otero County Commissioners Ron Oquist and Tim Knabenshue's biggest concern is water. 'It what allows us to have agriculture, to have farming, to have ranching,' Knabenshue said. Both are worried more housing in the Springs will mean less water to grow crops like watermelon in the Arkansas Valley. 'Some think they [watermelons] come from Safeway or King Soopers. They come from down in southeastern Colorado, down in the Arkansas Valley,' Oquist said. But the group 'Yes on Issue One,' which supports the Karman Line Annexation, said there is not a lack of water, but water mismanagement, and they argue there will be plenty of water to accommodate the project. While no one from the group responded to FOX21 News's request for comment as of Monday, videos posted on the group's YouTube page show project leaders explaining why they think the annexation is a good thing. 'We can build into a community that supports the needs of the military, whether that's rental detached homes or specialized childcare and health care, to meet the military needs and civilian needs of our community,' said Kevin O'Neil, the Karman Line Managing Partner. But Oquist and Knabenshue want to make sure they have a seat at the table, so the area they represent does not get forgotten. 'We're not against Colorado Springs and we're not against growth; we just want to make sure that we do it responsibly,' Oquist said. In the end, the loudest voice will be the voters of Olympic City U.S.A. The special election for the Karman Line Annexation is set for June 17. Ballots were mailed out by the city on May 23. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
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Safeway, Albertsons union workers to vote next weekend on possible strike
DENVER (KDVR) — Union employees of Safeway and Albertsons locations across the state are being asked to consider striking during a series of scheduled meetings that begin Friday. According to UFCW Local 7, which represents the union workers of Safeway and Albertsons, the company and union have been negotiating for eight months, most recently meeting on Friday, May 23. The union stated in an update posted to Facebook that Safeway agreed to 'important language items' sought by the bargaining committee, 'including a new drug and alcohol rehabilitation policy and protection of Drive Up and Go shopper work.' Consumer Reports: King Soopers is over-charging an average of 18% on some items But the union says that the company 'remains far behind' on certain economic issues the union has brought up. The union said the company is proposing: Lower wage increases than are being offered by competitors Health care cuts, 'along with increases that are too small to prevent even more mid-contract health care cuts' Pension contributions that 'would cut benefits for current workers and retirees' The union says the stores are understaffed and that the company is backtracking on an agreement for retroactive pay and benefit increases, which the labor union cited as an unfair labor practice. 'We have been bargaining with Safeway and Albertsons for eight months now,' UFCW Local 7 stated. 'Unfortunately, the company has chosen to follow the path of King Soopers and City Market by insisting that workers take unwarranted concessions. Workers have had enough and the bargaining committee is fed up.' Negotiations with Albertsons and Safeway are scheduled to resume on June 2 in Wheat Ridge. The union said other unfair labor practices include: Refusing to honor an extension agreement requiring the employer to make retroactive wage increases and benefit contributions Directly dealing with a worker to settle a grievance relating to a key bargaining matter, bypassing the union 'Covering up illegal no-poaching agreement with Kroger during the 2022 King Soopers strike' The Denver, Boulder, Louisville, Brighton, Broomfield, Castle Rock, Conifer, Evergreen, Idaho Springs and Parker union store members will meet for a strike vote on Wednesday, June 4. Pueblo employees of Safeway are scheduled to hold a strike vote on Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31. Stores in Vail, Salida, Grand Junction and Fountain have confirmed strike votes between May 30 and June 1. Union accuses King Soopers in lawsuit of violating agreement ending strike Earlier this year, thousands of King Soopers workers who were members of UFCW Local 7 went on strike, alleging unfair labor practices by the company. The 12-day strike, from Feb. 6 through 17, ended with an agreement allowing the union to return to the bargaining table with King Soopers for at least 100 days without any lockouts or further strike action. In April, the union filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that King Soopers and City Market violated the agreement. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
20-05-2025
- CBS News
Aurora police arrest 2 suspects in deadly King Soopers parking lot shooting
Police in Aurora have arrested two suspects in connection with last week's deadly shooting in the King Soopers parking lot near Mississippi and Havana. One person was killed and two others were injured in the triple shooting on May 14. Hee Dah Weh Aurora Police Police arrested Hee Dah Weh, 24, of Aurora, and Latrayvon Dashen Bullard, 23, also of Aurora, during a traffic stop on Monday evening near E. Dartmouth Avenue and Parker Road. Latrayvon Dashen Bullard Aurora Police Investigators had obtained arrest warrants for Weh and Bullard for first-degree murder after the shooting at 1155 South Havana Street. Police said they responded to the shooting about 8:30 p.m. May 14 in the parking lot of the store. Officers said when they arrived, they found two men who had been shot. One man was found in the parking lot and was pronounced deceased at the scene and the second man, 36, was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. CBS A short time later, officers located a 46-year-old woman who had arrived at the hospital by private vehicle with a gunshot wound. All the victims are adults. According to investigators, it is believed the suspects are known to at least one of the victims and that an altercation in the parking lot led to the shooting.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
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10 years later: Deadly shooting of Windsor cyclist John Jacoby still not solved
DENVER (KDVR) — After 10 years with still no answers. the FBI is searching for any information that could lead to solving the 2015 deadly shooting of a Windsor cyclist. On May 18, 2015, John Jacoby, a 47-year-old park caretaker for the city of Windsor and employee at King Soopers, was riding his bicycle on Weld County Road 15 about two miles north of Windsor's Main Street when he was shot twice by an unknown person at around 10:15 a.m., according to the FBI. Jacoby died at the scene. 3 pedestrians killed in separate Denver crashes Sunday morning: police 'He was a good kid. He didn't deserve this,' a close family friend said after his death. 'It's just something that shouldn't have happened because he never hurt a soul.' Jacoby's death rocked the town of Windsor, as FOX31's reporting from the time showed it was the first homicide in the city in eight years. 'In a town that is very calm, something like this is unusual and certainly we're going to take every step we can to get to the bottom of it and find out exactly what happened,' a Windsor police lieutenant said back in 2015. But 10 years later, no one has been arrested or charged. Investigators do believe the shooting of Jacoby was connected to another shooting that happened less than a month prior on April 22, 2015, in Fort Collins. In that shooting, two rounds were fired at a woman driving around 11 p.m. at the intersection of Harmony Road and the southbound Interstate 25 on-ramp. 2 dead after small plane crash near Broomfield: North Metro Fire Rescue The woman survived after being shot in the neck, according to the FBI. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of the person or people responsible for Jacoby's death. Anyone with information about this case can contact the Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force at 970-498-5595 or at taskforce@ Tipsters can also contact any local FBI office, the nearest American Embassy or Consulate, or through Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
17-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
‘Secret shoppers' at Kroger stores say overcharging is common
Shopping trips to King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado and other Kroger-owned supermarkets in other states turned up what the shoppers say were widespread discrepancies between the price on the shelves and what got rung up. As a result, the customers spent more for groceries than they expected at a time when prices for most items remain high and tariff increases have stoked fears of inflation heating up again. Walmart, the nation's largest grocer, warned Thursday that higher tariffs on imports will raise prices. Members of the union negotiating a new contract with King Soopers shopped at 50 stores across Colorado over four days in March. The total tab, paid for by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, was $3,921.11. However, based on the price tags on the shelves, the bill should have been $3.297.26, or nearly 16% less, said Kristi Bush, the union's associate general counsel and one of the shoppers. The UFCW's secret shopper excursions coincided with ones made by The Guardian newspaper,Consumer Reports and the Food & Environment Reporting Network in 26 Kroger-owned stores in 14 states and the District of Columbia in March, April and May. The media outlets said there was a pattern of overcharging by listing expired sale prices on the shelves but scanning in the regular prices at the checkout. The tests by the media partners found more than 150 items with expired tags, leading to average overcharges of about $1.70 per item, 18% over the discount price listed on the shelves. "Our findings suggest the typical Kroger shopper ends up paying far more for what they think are discounted items - all during a time of inflation and economic uncertainty," Consumer Reports said. The union that represents King Soopers and City Market employees in Colorado has made the discrepancies an issue in contract negotiations that started late last year. The union said the stores are understaffed and changing out tags on the shelves is one of the duties that has suffered as a result. "The tags are out of date and the reason they're out of date is they don't have the staff to pull the tags," said Jim Hammons, UFCW retail director and a former King Soopers store manager. "King Soopers has cut the hours so bad that they don't have enough time to do that step in the process, which is to pull the old tags." The question of staffing levels is one of the issues that King Soopers and UFCW Local 7 have tangled over during contract talks, which were interrupted temporarily in February by a strike. The union raised the issue while King Soopers and Albertsons, which owns Safeway stores in Colorado, were pursuing a merger. The deal collapsed in December after judges in two separate cases rejected the merger. King Soopers has disputed that its stores are understaffed. The company also played down the reports of price discrepancies, saying in an email Wednesday that the claims, "based on a limited number of isolated issues, do not reflect the seriousness with which we approach transparent and affordable pricing." The Colorado Agriculture Department is looking into questions about pricing at King Soopers. Spokeswoman Olga Robak said the investigation is led by the Inspection and Consumer Services Division's Weights and Measures program. The program handles price-test verifications and investigates pricing discrepancies. Kim Cordova, UFCW Local 7 president, said the union has shared the information from its shopping trips with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser in hopes that he will investigate. The attorney general's office can't confirm or otherwise comment on investigations, spokesman Lawrence Pacheco said. In 2023, Weiser and the Nevada attorney general reached a settlement with Walmart over the company's failure to make sure the price customers paid matched the price listed on the shelf. The settlement called for Walmart to pay $3 million to Colorado to help fund local food pantries and other food assistance programs. Bush, who went to King Soopers stores to check prices, said shoppers took timestamped pictures of the items on the shelves and later compared the tags on the shelves to the receipts. She said the point was to buy items people normally would rather than try to ferret out specific problems. The bill for a trip to an Englewood store was $83.80. Based on the prices listed on the shelves, it should have cost Bush $57.61. In one case, she got two bottles of soap that were advertised at a special price of $8.99 per bottle if she bought two. But the receipt showed she paid the full price of $14.99 per bottle. In another case, Bush picked up a bag of chicken strips, "the kind that you would feed your kids." The regular price was $10.99 per bag, or $9.99 with a King Soopers loyalty card. The tag listed an additional discount of $2 per bag if the shopper bought three of the items. "I bought three and they charged me $10.99 for each bag of chicken," Bush said. "The total should have been $23.97. I paid $32.97." Chris Lacey is a service manager at a Littleton King Soopers. He's not surprised by the reports of listed prices not matching what people actually pay. "We see price discrepancies in the front end daily," Lacey said. Last week, avocados were listed on the King Soopers app for 99 cents apiece, but Lacey said they rang up as $1.49 for each one. When a shopper points out a mistake, employees will correct the bill. But Lacey said the price rarely gets fixed systemwide. Customers sometimes take out their frustration on employees. "I have had customers yell at me. I've had customers cuss out some of my staff," Lacey said. "I've had product thrown at my feet because people didn't want to pay the price." Lacey understands the anger. "I would maybe not do what some of these people do, but I would definitely voice my displeasure to the company." Cordova said the union's goal is to ensure that shoppers are not overcharged and that pricing is fair and transparent. She said one of the union's contract proposals is the formation of a pricing-integrity department. "We're not trying to take Kroger down. We're trying to make better stores for our members to work at and for our communities to shop at," Cordova said. Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
