Xcel Energy will cut power to 9,000 customers in northern Colorado starting Friday morning ahead of strong winds and fire danger, utility officials announced Thursday.
National Weather Service forecasters issued a red flag warning for critical fire weather in the northern Colorado foothills from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, with low humidity and winds up to 75 mph creating conditions “favorable for rapid fire spread” and extreme fire behavior, the agency wrote in an alert.
Xcel Energy customers in Larimer and Weld counties will see power cuts starting at 8 a.m., including in parts of Fort Collins, Loveland, Kerns and Bellevue, according to an online outage map.
The outage area’s rough footprint is Wellington to the north, Windsor to the east, Horsetooth Reservoir to the south and Ted’s Place to the west.
Central Fort Collins is not included in the planned outage, including Old Town and neighborhoods near Colorado State University, according to Xcel’s map.
Planned outages in Loveland include neighborhoods north and south of Fourteenth Street/U.S. 34 between Glade Park to the west and North Wilson Avenue to the east.
While weather conditions are expected to improve around 4 p.m., “restoration work won’t begin until high winds and elevated fire risks have subsided,” Xcel officials wrote.
“It may take several hours to several days for customers’ power to be restored because a crew must patrol the entire power line to ensure it’s safe to turn service back on before a power line can be re-energized,” utility leaders said Thursday.
Customers can report outages and damaged power lines through the Xcel Energy app, online at xcelenergy.com/out, by texting OUT to 98936 or calling 1-800-895-1999.
Windsor police said two people who were shot on Monday may have been targeted.
Around 5:30 p.m., police were alerted to a shooting at Estrella’s Market, which is located at 10351 Old Redwood Highway.
Police said two people were injured in the shooting, and it’s believed they were targeted. The victims were taken to the hospital, and investigators are looking into the shooting.
There is no threat to the public, police said. No arrests have been made.
A woman in Sonoma County was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty Tuesday after police said they found two dozen dogs living in poor living conditions inside a garage.
Police in the town of Windsor said the arrest was made as they were conducting a probation compliance check on a resident at a home on Hastings Place. During the visit, officers located 28 dogs, ranging from young puppies to adult mixed breed terriers.
“A walkthrough of the garage revealed poor and unsafe living conditions, including an abundance of fecal matter, soiled bedding, limited or no food available, and dirty water,” police said in a statement.
During the search, three of the dogs were found crated with heavily soiled bedding. One adult dog was also found with what was described as a “large, open laceration” above its right eye.
Police requested assistance from North Bay Animal Services (NBAS), who took custody of all 28 dogs. Two of the injured dogs were taken to a veterinary hospital for urgent care.
The owner of the dogs, identified as 35-year-old Christina Urrutia, was arrested at the scene.
Urrutia was booked into the Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of animal cruelty, possession of unlicensed dogs, operating a commercial kennel without a license and a probation violation.
89X announced its return with a cheeky social media ad campaign encouraging listeners to “GET BACK WITH YOUR X.”
In 2020, “Stop” by Jane’s Addiction closed out what was believed to be the final broadcast of Windsor-based 89X, once one of metro Detroit’s most iconic radio stations. But at 8 a.m. on Thursday morning, 89X returned — once again playing Jane’s Addiction and resurrecting “Windsor-Detroit’s only new rock alternative.” The station announced its return with a cheeky social media ad campaign, encouraging listeners to “GET BACK WITH YOUR X.”
After five years as a bland pop-country station, 88.7 FM surprised the Detroit area by switching back to its former format, even featuring some of the original station IDs that many listeners will remember and a nostalgic playlist spanning from darker alternative rock of the ’80s and ’90s to the cheery “stomp-clap” millennial hipster sound of the 2010s and beyond.
89X was officially born in 1991, expanding from an alt-rock segment called “The Cutting Edge” for CIMX. The station soon solidified its place in the local media landscape as a haven for the alternative kids, adapting to its audience and keeping pace with the evolving scene, playing a mix of grunge, punk, goth, and hip-hop (notably Eminem) through the ’90s.
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The author rocking an 89X temporary tattoo circa 2016.
By the mid-2000s, the station began playing emo acts like My Chemical Romance and bringing in a younger crowd. (Around this time I called the station when I was 11 years old and asked them to play “Jesus of Suburbia” by Green Day. They said no, and then told me I was way too young to know that song.)
While the Canadian-based station infiltrated U.S. radio waves with plenty of legally mandated “CanCon” with foreign (to us) artists like the Tragically Hip and Our Lady Peace, it also prided itself on playing local Detroit acts, such as the White Stripes and We Came as Romans. Its “The Homeboy Show” segment showcased local talent from Detroit and Windsor, giving listeners the chance to vote on their favorite tracks and instilling the importance of underground scenes and a music-based community through the use of street teams, events, and its popular morning show, Dave and Chuck the Freak (who eventually moved to Detroit’s WRIF, which also shifted from a classic rock identity to an alt-rock direction).
On its first day back as 89X, the station played hits from its late-’90s and early 2000s heyday, with a playlist focused on the alternative rock era with tracks by Beastie Boys, Oasis, Linkin Park, the Strokes, Green Day, No Doubt, and Weezer, as well as older acts like the Cure and Depeche Mode and newer ones like Royal Blood and the Beaches. While the format may have seemed to be going out of style when 89X went away back in 2020, its return seemed to be well-received in 2025 with the nostalgia machine in full force.
One person died and another was injured in a Thursday morning, single-vehicle crash in Denver’s Windsor neighborhood.
Officers responded to reports of a crash near South Clinton Street and East Alameda Avenue early Thursday morning, according to a 12:36 a.m. statement from the Denver Police Department.
The intersection is just north of the Windsor Gardens Community Center and northeast of Windsor Lake.
One car was involved in the crash, but paramedics took two people to the hospital with serious injuries, police said. Police did not specify if the second person involved in the crash was a passenger or a pedestrian.
SANTA ROSA — After California State Attorney General Rob Bonta decided not to file sexual assault charges against the former Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli, some of the accusers and their attorneys spoke out against the decision at a Saturday news conference.
Bonta’s office had recently said they “don’t have enough evidence to warrant filing charges on the cases not barred by the statute of limitations.”
Attorneys representing some of the women said 15 people have come out to accuse Foppoli of sexual assault. Four of them attended the news conference. Other women say they’re dealing with different stages of healing and are still not comfortable with appearing on camera to tell their stories. A crowd of supporters also attended the event.
Some of Dominic Foppoli’s accusers and their attorneys spoke out against the decision not to charge the former Windsor mayor at a Saturday news conference in Santa Rosa.
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Fighting back tears and raw emotions, Farrah Abraham questioned the attorney general’s decision.
“I want to start out with a question. This has been so hard. How many rape victims does it take to get a rapist criminally charged?” Abraham asked.
Abraham, a Florida social media influencer, said Foppoli drugged and raped her in 2021.
“Reporting my rape will forever be one of the best decisions of my entire life and, if it prevents one other woman, child, man from being raped, this press conference will make all the difference in the world,” Abraham said.
She said she initially experienced a lot of internal anguish and self-blame.
“Overcoming panic attacks, chronic body pain, completely going to rock bottom, depression, suicide — I am really sad that I had to experience this and it affected all of my core beliefs,” Abraham recounted.
She met three other women at the news conference who also accused the former Windsor mayor of sexual assault. One of the women spoke briefly.
“We are shocked that, even with the large number of women from all over the globe who have come forward, that this is still not considered enough for criminal conviction. We are horrified at the prospect of waiting for the next victim who may or may not have the courage to come forward,” said Jane Doe, who declined to give her name.
“Money was never the focus. The focus was always getting a predator behind bars for the safety of others but, when the criminal justice fails, we find justice where we can get it,” said attorney Traci Carrillo.
Carrillo is representing seven women in a civil case against Foppoli who is facing a total of three civil cases.
The former Windsor mayor resigned in 2021. He has always denied the allegations and he now lives in Italy. After the attorney general’s decision, he recently said in a media report he may come back to the North Bay.
“It is not surprising to me that Mr. Foppoli thinks that he can come back and lead the same life that he was leading. In response to that, I hope he’s watching because I hope he does come back because I’d like to talk to him,” said attorney Spencer Kuvin, who is representing Abraham.
Abraham said she’s still in therapy but wants to encourage other victims to come forward.
“The one thing that I did was I took myself out of the world for 28 days and I was put at a trauma center. And that was what helped me get back to where I’m at, to continue on to even be around men again. I did a 12-step program for relationships and I’m lucky to have a very supportive partner at this point in my life,” Abraham said.
Attorneys said two of the civil cases against Foppoli are set to go to trial next year.
KPIX reached out Foppoli for comment but did not immediately hear back from him.
Da Lin is an award-winning journalist at KPIX 5 News. He joined KPIX 5 in 2012, but has been reporting the news in the Bay Area since 2007. Da grew up in Oakland, and before his return to the Bay Area, he spent five years covering the news at three other television stations in Texas, Southern and Central California. He also spent five years reporting at KRON 4.
Though many school students have sat through presentations about the dangers of drugs, some community members worry about the tactics of an upcoming speaker in the Weld RE-4 School District.
Laura Stack, founder of the marijuana prevention nonprofit Johnny’s Ambassadors, will speak this month at multiple schools across Weld County, teaching students and their guardians about the negative impact of THC, the component of cannabis that makes users feel high.
Stack said her findings are based on research about the difference between today’s marijuana and the marijuana past generations ingested.
Stack intertwines her son’s story with marijuana use into her attempts to wean middle and high school students off or keep clear of marijuana.
Three days before Johnny, Stack’s son, died by suicide at the age of 19, he told his mother that weed ruined his life and his mind. Stack said Johnny began using marijuana at 14 in the form of heating and inhaling highly potent marijuana concentrates, known as “dabbing.”
Stack’s upcoming stops in the Weld RE-4 School District to educate children about the dangers of THC generated a handful of concerned community members and parents who question Stack’s credibility and bias, arguing she conveys a fear-based approach that may not have…
What’s in a name? Well, if you are a member of the British royal family, quite a lot. Royal names signify bloodlines, stability, and centuries of tradition. From Albert to Zara, each royal name has a story behind it, and its very own place in the history books.
The most popular royal names have become synonymous with the House of Windsor. Over the past 200 years, 12 British royals have been named Albert, which means “noble and bright.” Ten have shared the name George, which is of Greek origin and means “farmer.” There have been nine Victorias (the Latin word for “victory”), eight named Charles (Old English meaning “free man”), seven Marys and Edwards, and six named Louise and Alexandra. Other perpetually popular royal names include Alice, Elizabeth, Margaret, Charlotte, Arthur, William, and Henry.
Names for the reigning monarch tend to be repeated, unless a bad seed taints the name forever. There have been 11 King Edwards, eight King Henrys, and four King Williams. Conversely, there has been only one King John, probably due to his unpopularity as the monarch who was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. There was also only one King Stephen, who reigned over a contested throne from 1135–1154, leading to a brutal civil war.
Before the Norman invasion of 1066, English rulers had names that today seem outlandish. According to Britain’s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir, early Anglo-Saxon rulers included Athelstan, Eadred, Eadwig, and Aethelred. On the flip side, the Anglo-Saxons also introduced rulers named Edward. There were also two King Harolds, which resonates with the modern day. Harold, after all, was Prince William’s private nickname for his brother, Prince Harry.
Some have speculated about if there is a deeper meaning behind the nickname. After all, King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king, was defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The new Norman dynasty would bring a new set of names to the ruling family, including William, Henry, and Robert.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were involved in a car chase while being followed by photographers following a charity event in New York, the couple’s office said Wednesday.
The pair, together with Meghan’s mother, were followed for more than two hours by a half-dozen vehicles with blacked out windows after leaving the event.
Their office said in a statement that the chase “resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD officers.” It called the incident “near catastrophic.”
“While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone’s safety,” the statement from the couple said.
