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By Tori Mason

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    AURORA, Colorado (KCNC) — A woman in Aurora is in critical condition after a dog attack that involved three pit bulls outside her home. Her family told CBS Colorado it will leave her with permanent, life-altering injuries. The attack comes less than two years after residents of Aurora voted to repeal a citywide pit bull ban.

Aurora Police Department and the city’s animal services responded around 11:40 a.m. Monday, March 30 to the 1500 block of North Lima Street for a reported animal attack. When officers arrived, they found 57-year-old Hilda Lorena Cifuentes suffering from multiple bite wounds. She was transported to the hospital, where she has since undergone multiple surgeries.

Cifuentes suffered extensive injuries to her face, arms, legs and abdomen, along with head trauma. It’s possible that she may lose vision and her left leg.

Her daughter, Sandy Aparicio, says the attack happened during a routine morning while cleaning the yard. Aparicio said her mother had been moving items between her front yard and a shared parking area when three of her neighbor’s dogs got loose. The neighbor had moved into the duplex roughly 10 days earlier, Aparicio said.

“We don’t know if the door was left open or if it was an accident,” Aparicio told CBS Colorado. “But the dogs came out to the parking space, and that’s when they started attacking my mom.”

Cifuentes was alone when the dogs attacked her.

“She started yelling, ‘Help, help, help!’ but no one was near her,” Aparicio explained.

Brenda Chacon, who is homeless, was nearby when she heard the screams of Cifuentes, and she immediately tried to intervene.

“I tried to do whatever I can, but the dogs started coming at me too,” Chacon told CBS Colorado. “I saw her suffer. That’s what hurt.”

Chacon says she yelled for help and tried to get others in the area to call 911. She ran to a nearby store where she flagged down assistance.

Eventually, neighbors and bystanders began throwing rocks at the dogs to stop the attack.

The family estimates the attack lasted between eight and 10 minutes. Chacon says the owner was present, but was unable to control the dogs.

“It was terrible, something traumatic. I’ve never seen anything like that,” Chacon said.

The family says the three dogs involved in the attack have been euthanized.

“What if it was a child? Two or 3 years old?” Aparicio said. “Her life is not going to be the same. How is she going to go back to work? Everything is going to change.”

City officials say Aurora does not currently have a ban on pit bull-type breeds. A previous breed-specific ban was lifted in January 2025 after voters approved a ballot measure in 2024.

In a statement, the Stop Aurora Pit Bull Ban Team, a group that advocated for repealing the city’s breed-specific ban, urged caution in drawing conclusions about the incident.

“We are wishing a full recovery to the woman involved,” the group shared in a statement. “This is a heartbreaking situation for everyone, including the dogs. As we do not yet know the full circumstances, it’s important to avoid assumptions. Situations like this reinforce the importance of responsible ownership, proper training and understanding each individual dog — regardless of breed.”

Cifuentes’ family is demanding answers and accountability.

“If you’re the owner, you have to make sure your dogs are secured,” Aparicio said. “Why were they free?”

The family is raising money online to help cover medical bills, rehabilitation and living expenses, as they prepare for what they describe as a long recovery.

CBS Colorado reached out to the owners of the three dogs that have since been put down and have not heard back.

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By Tanner Kahler

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    MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A Wisconsin Department of Transportation camera captured the moment a law enforcement vehicle crashed and rolled over during a pursuit Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 43 in Milwaukee.

According to video obtained by WISN 12, authorities were chasing a dark-colored SUV near Locust Street moments before the crash.

The video shows law enforcement appearing to throw spike strips at the vehicle.

The chase continued, following the SUV that was swerving in-and-out of traffic.

At one point, a squad car rear-ended another vehicle and rolled over near the northbound Keefe Avenue exit ramp.

WISN 12 is working to learn if anybody was hurt in the crash, which caused traffic backups on I-43 Wednesday afternoon.

It’s not clear which agencies were involved in the crash.

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By Michael Rosales

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    MOSS LANDING, California (KSBW) — Skyrocketing costs of fuel are starting to impact local fishing operations on the Central Coast, with diesel fuel prices now over $7 per gallon.

Hans Haveman, owner of H&H Fresh Fish, said, “These are people that are already hurting.”

Calder Dyerle, a commercial fisherman out of Moss Landing Harbor, noted, “I mean, relatively, the fuel costs right now are doubled what they were last year.”

As of Wednesday, AAA reported that the average cost per gallon for diesel in California is $7.52. Diesel represents 17 percent of total fuel sales in California and is crucial for multiple industries, including trucking, construction, agriculture, and the fishing industry, both commercial and recreational. Some believe the increased costs will soon affect consumers.

Dyerle explained that fuel is one of the many major operational costs. “There’s a lot of uncertainty in fishing already, just with the nature of dealing with Mother Nature and, you know, relying on whatever resources are available out there to catch and the regulations on those resources,” he said.

Hans added, “You take a big boat like these, 80 to 100ft boats, some of them are designed to go offshore. There are 2 to 3,000 gallons of fuel. So just do the math at $8 a gallon. They better catch fish, or they’re in big trouble.”

The cost of fuel is also hitting delivery trucks, raising the cost to import seafood from places like Canada.

Dyerle mentioned that rising costs can sometimes prompt fishermen to make riskier decisions, such as fishing longer hours or going out to sea without help, which can be dangerous.

At the harbor, diesel is slightly cheaper than at normal gas stations due to boaters not having to pay California’s highway fuel tax.

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By Adam Roberts

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    LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (KHBS, KHOG) — A federal judge has ruled that the Ten Commandments Monument at the Arkansas State Capitol violates the U.S. Constitution.

The state first installed a monument in June 2017, but a driver destroyed it. He was sent to a mental health hospital.

A new monument was installed in April 2018.

The judge ruled on Tuesday that the monument violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

She found that the monument’s purpose and nature is religious, not secular. It cited statements made by Sen. Jason Rapert, who was the primary sponsor of the bill that established the monument.

The state has claimed the monument was erected to honor the Ten Commandments’ historic nature. The judge found that this monument doesn’t do that.

“Nothing in the Display Act requires that the State of Arkansas provide any explanation about the purpose of the Ten Commandments Monument or the manner in which the Ten Commandments provide the basic principles of the American system of government, although the legislative findings in the enacted Display Act include a finding that the Ten Commandments are one of many sources influencing the development of what has become modern law,” the judge wrote in her opinion.

Other groups proposed their own monuments. They included the Satanic Temple, which wanted to install a permanent Baphomet monument. That proposal was rejected.

The judge ordered that the monument be removed from the state capitol. However, put that order on hold to give the state a change to appeal.

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    WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, South Carolina (WYFF) — The driver of a garbage truck miraculously walked away with minor injuries after the vehicle was struck by a train in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, on Wednesday morning.

Around 10:25 a.m., the Williamsburg County Fire Department was called to a crash involving a train and a garbage truck near 676 North Williamsburg County Highway, which is about three miles north of Kingstree.

The Williamsburg County Fire Department said that the first units on scene reported a garbage truck pushed off to the side of the track and an Amtrak train still upright and down the track from the accident site.

We are told the driver of the garbage truck was able to get out of the truck on his own with minor injuries. The driver was transported to a local hospital for evaluation. No injuries were reported by the train’s passengers and crew.

Officials reported that both the truck and train were damaged extensively, and the track will have to be inspected before train traffic can resume.

At the time of the accident, there were 101 passengers and crew on board the train. As for the garbage truck, the driver was the only occupant.

Buses were called to take the passengers of the train to the recovery center in Kingstree to wait for transport to the next station or another train.

Authorities said the incident happened at a private crossing, so there were no crossarms or warning signals.

The accident is under investigation by South Carolina Highway Patrol.

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By Mythili Gubbi

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    OGDEN, Utah (KSTU) — Weber State University students hosted the exhibit to help raise awareness about sexual violence, and not to blame the assault on the survivor, or what they were wearing.

According to junior student Ashlynne Rollins, the “What Were You Wearing” exhibit debunks myths around sexual violence for sexual assault awareness month.

“It does shut them down, make them insecure, makes them feel more powerless than they already do,” said Rollins.

She hopes to pursue a career in victim advocacy.

The exhibits were created by students, sharing real stories of survivors and displaying the outfits they described they wore. According to senior student Madi Mansfield, the outfits varied from a wedding dress to t-shirts, and even included a hospital gown.

“It’s very difficult to look at the children’s outfits, because you don’t think that a child is going to be sexually assaulted or anything like that,” said Mansfield. “I have someone very close, actually two people in my life that have been affected by sexual violence and it’s very hard to hear their stories. So that was a drive for me to take this class, learn about this and put together this exhibit.”

From walking a mile in someone else’s shoes to resources that can help, the exhibit explored so many facets of what sexual violence can look like.

“Being able to see it all together and have all these people with their stories, it’s encouraging for other victims, to speak out and speak out about their stories,” said Rollins. “It is a very sad and somber moment.”

People who visited the exhibit also signed a pledge to believe survivors, with all their names filling a board.

“There were so many people here, to say we’re here for you, we’re here to advocate for you,” said Mansfield.

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    SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A San Francisco jury has convicted 55-year-old Lisa Gonzales of second-degree murder for the 2018 killing and dismemberment of her roommate, Margaret Mamer.

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who worked on the case during her time in the homicide unit, said the verdict brings long-delayed justice.

“This is one of the most gruesome crimes our city has experienced in recent history,” Jenkins said. “I remember putting in the grand jury proceedings and having to call the witnesses to the stand to testify about what they heard and what they saw. And this was very gruesome. It was very difficult to get through that testimony.”

Gonzales was also found to have personally used a knife during the murder.

Mamer was reported missing on June 1, 2018, after friends became concerned when they hadn’t heard from her and knew tensions were escalating between her and Gonzales, according to the DA’s office. The next day, another person went to police reporting that a murder may have occurred inside the roommates’ Mission District apartment on the 200 block of 14th Street.

When officers arrived, Gonzales invited them inside and told them Mamer had moved to Eureka weeks earlier. During a search of the building’s storage area, police found a blue plastic container holding human remains later identified as Mamer’s.

According to testimony, a third roommate told investigators she had heard sawing noises coming from the bathroom for hours and noticed strong smells of vinegar and bleach throughout the apartment. She also reported seeing a hacksaw under the sink and noticing that her own blue storage container was missing.

When she asked where Mamer had gone, Gonzales replied that she had left “but not the way she wanted to.”

Coworkers testified that Gonzales had complained for weeks about wanting Mamer out of the apartment. When offered legal ways to evict her, Gonzales reportedly responded, “No thanks. I’ll do it my way.”

An autopsy determined Mamer died from multiple sharpforce injuries to her head, face, skull and chest.

Prosecutors said Gonzales dismembered the body in an attempt to conceal the killing, and that the remains were left in the storage unit for weeks before being discovered.

“Sadly, not only was she dismembered, but it took a number of weeks to locate her. And so, the body had experienced significant decay by then,” Jenkins said.

The nearly eight-year delay between the crime and the trial complicated the case.

“The best advantage that they can gain is to delay so that memories fade, so that we lose contact with witnesses,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins also explained that a first-degree murder charge with pre-meditation was hard to prove in court.

“When, sadly, the only other person involved in this — if you call it dispute or situation — cannot testify, is no longer alive,” Jenkins said.

Gonzales remains in custody and faces 16 years to life in prison. A sentencing date will be set at a hearing later this month.

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