News from Neighbors

Officer on paid leave after shooting
    STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, June 1 ­— A Colorado Department of Corrections officer has been put on paid administrative leave after shooting a prison inmate Wednesday who was allegedly trying to escape.
    The officer was not injured in the shooting, and CDOC said the administrative leave status is per policy.
    There is still no word on the condition of 29-year-old Brian Estrada. The state prison inmate was shot as he was allegedly trying to escape from a courtroom in the Logan County Justice Center on Wednesday.
    Estrada was in a 13th Judicial District Court courtroom at about 2:30 p.m. for hearings on two criminal cases Wednesday when authorities said he tried to flee but was stopped when the unidentified CDOC officer shot and wounded him.

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Wild weather around Cope
    YUMA PIONEER, May 31 — Martha Carrasco shared her story following Monday’s wacky weather in and around Cope in southeastern Washington County. “I was unloading compost in a field in Cope and had my two girls (Carolina and Yvonne Villanueva) with me. Luckily, at our last load, my boss (Aaron Brown) offered to go with us since the weather was getting pretty bad where we were.
    “And when we were up there, our truck got stuck in the dirt. Then we saw the tornado coming straight to us, and that’s when my boss said, ‘Quick get off the truck,’ and we saw a creek close by. So we ran to it and laid in it with the girls in the middle and waited.
    “Then I didn’t hear or feel anything, so I got up and saw the four tornados around us.

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