Round-Up: Red Cross distributes water in San Luis; State Senate committee rejects car emission extensions; and more

By On February 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, AP, Elizabeth Schoder, Health, KRCC News, Public Safety, Religion, Round-Up, Student Reporter, Transportation, Water

The American Red Cross is distributing bottled water to residents of the southern Colorado town San Luis, after the town’s drinking water supply tested positive for E. coli…A State Senate bill was rejected in committee today along party lines that would have extended exemptions for car emissions testing…and, the Colorado state Senate has given preliminary approval to a Democrat-sponsored measure that would require hospitals to tell patients if they refuse to perform certain procedures on moral or religious grounds.

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