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Colorado city marks anniversary of deadly supermarket attack

BOULDER – With flowers and a public remembrance for those who died and those still grieving, Colorado residents were marking the one-year anniversary Tuesday of a shooting at a busy supermar...

DATE: Mar 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Trial starts for lawsuit over Denver police use of force

DENVER – The trial for a lawsuit accusing Denver police of using indiscriminate force two years ago against people protesting the killing of George Floyd started Monday in federal court. Ope...

DATE: Mar 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ex-police officer pleads guilty in rough arrest of woman with dementia

DENVER – A former Colorado police officer shown on body camera video roughly arresting a 73-year-old woman with dementia and later seen joking about it with colleagues pleaded guilty to assa...

DATE: Mar 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Prosecutor: Fentanyl likely killed 5 in Colorado apartment

DENVER – Preliminary evidence suggests that five people found dead in an apartment in suburban Denver overdosed on fentanyl while taking what they believed to be cocaine, the district attorn...

DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Charges for Dane in Colorado wildfire will likely be dropped

DENVER (AP) — Criminal charges will probably be dropped against a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a large 2018 Colorado wildfire, who can no longer be forcibly medicated, a prosecutor said Monday.

DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: 6 killed, including gunman, in Denver area shootings

DENVER – A gunman who went on a deadly shooting rampage through several business districts in and around Denver was targeting at least some of his victims, authorities said Tuesday. The susp...

DATE: Dec 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Supporters rally for trucker sentenced to 110 years in crash

DENVER – Relatives, lawmakers and other supporters of a trucker sentenced to 110 years in prison after an explosive brake-failure crash that left four people dead rallied in Denver on Wednes...

DATE: Dec 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado supermarket shooting suspect incompetent for trial

DENVER – A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at th...

DATE: Dec 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

No charges for officer who killed man hailed as hero

DENVER – No criminal charges will be filed against a police officer who accidentally shot and killed a man hailed as a hero for stopping a gunman who ambushed another police officer in subur...

DATE: Nov 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver police hope therapy dog will break down barriers

DENVER – The Denver Police Department’s first therapy dog was originally trained to be a guide dog, but she turned out to be too friendly to focus on helping one person. Now the department ...

DATE: Nov 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Officers, paramedics charged in McClain’s death in court

DENVER – Three police officers and two paramedics indicted on manslaughter and other charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in Colorado appeared in court Monday for the first time since...

DATE: Nov 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Parents of unrestrained girl killed on ride sue theme park

DENVER (AP) — On her family's first trip since the pandemic began, 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos got on a vertical drop ride at a Colorado amusement park with her uncle, aunt and cousins last month. When the floor pulled away from beneath them, everyone else fell in their seats down a 110-foot (34-meter) underground shaft but Wongel, who was not strapped to her seat, plunged to her death, according to a lawsuit filed by her parents against the park Wednesday.

DATE: Oct 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News