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FOX31 confronts dentists with a dark side

DENVER — A Denver dentist accused of re-using dirty needles on 8,000 patients and practicing while high on prescription drugs may not be the only dentist with a dark side operating in Colorado.

A review of public complaints against Metro Denver dentists has uncovered a disturbing trend whereby dentists with suspended licenses or questionable backgrounds are still practicing medicine, and the state is doing little to stop them, a FOX31 investigation has found.

The complaints list includes Dr. Stephen Stein, who made headlines in Colorado when authorities discovered he had been reusing needles — potentially exposing some 8,000 patients.

Sergio: One Nation, Two Choices

FOX31 Denver has complete election night coverage on the air and online featuring political perspectives and analysis from across the spectrum. On Monday, former GOP lawmaker Rob Witwer and former Colorado Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak offered a preview of what to watch for tonight.

Here, KBNO’s Fernando Sergio offers his thoughts on the democratic process that plays out every four years.

DENVER — Every four years Americans across this great nation exercise the incredible privilege of electing a President. It is one of the cornerstones of our democracy, the greatest in the world, that sometimes creates an atmosphere of confusion with the barrage of political advertisements and talking points that voters are subjected to.

Live blog: In victory speech Obama says “best is yet to come”

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Where to Vote in Colorado

DENVER — Election Day is almost here. Do you know where your voting center is?

The first step is to make sure you are registered to vote. Voter registration ended on Oct. 9. You can check your registration status on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website.

If you are looking for voting information for your county, visit this website, which has an interactive map of clerks and recorders offices by county around the state. 

Checking your registration status will also allow you find out which voting location you should go to on Election Day.  You can use the Google map below to find the closest polling place to your home. Just enter your address below.

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Leopard suspected of eating 15 people in Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — A ferocious leopard may have killed 15 people in Nepal in a 15-month span, its latest victim a 4-year-old boy that the creature dragged away into the jungle to eat.

The head of boy was found in the forest a kilometer from his home Saturday morning, said Kamal Prasad Kharel, the police chief of the Baitadi district, an area about 600 kilometers (373 miles) west of Kathmandu.

The grisly discovery, which came after teams of people searched for the child, marks the 15th victim in the past 15 months in that remote district in western Nepal.

The police chief suspects that a single man-eating leopard is responsible for the deaths. If not, there are at most two of the man-eating creatures around, he believes.

Justice doesn’t seem fair to family of woman murdered 16 years ago

DENVER — It took 16 years to get a convicted murderer into a Denver courtroom for killing a mother of three.

But justice may not be so simple for the victim’s family—where even a day in prison for the suspect seems too long to them.

There is a reason why.

Everett Donelson of Parker feels the sting of his daughter, Sheri Majors’ vicious murder in 1996, by a man who lived in freedom for 14 years before turning himself in last year.

Chester Todd had already been in prison for killing a man in 1967. And now with a life sentence likely, Majors’ family feels it’s not quite fair.

There are many forms of justice in this world.

“No, I don’t particularly want the charge dropped. I want everybody to know he’s convicted of this crime, of murder, that he’s a murderer,” says Donelson.

But for the 69-year-old, justice provided by the courts may not be the most fair.

CDOT: C-470 closing between Yosemite, I-25 Saturday

DENVER — CDOT will close the eastbound lanes of C-470 between S. Yosemite Street and Interstate 25 Saturday morning while Lone Tree police conduct an investigation into a crash that killed one person earlier this week.

The closure is expected to last about an hour and will start at 8:30 a.m. said CDOT spokeswoman Stacey Stegman.

All traffic will be diverted off the highway at Yosemite. An alternative route includes S. University Boulevard or S. Quebec Street onto E. Lincoln Avenue, across Interstate 25 and back onto C-470 at Peoria Street.

Detectives plan to be on the highway looking for more evidence in a crash that killed a 51-year-old man Thursday morning. Authorities have not said specifically what they will be looking for. 

Dennis Dolce died when Erin Finn, 20, was driving west on the highway, crossed the median and collided with his vehicle head-on, police said.