Crime and Courts

The Springfield Police Department has been the center of controversy in recent years

Initial investigation suggested 13-year-old was driving the pickup that crashed into a college van, killing 6 members of the University of the Southwest golf team, including Jackson Zinn of Westminster

Gov. Jared Polis appointed Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, to serve as the interim district attorney in the 12th Judicial District

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruling came in the case of Abade Irizarry, a YouTube journalist and blogger who claimed a Lakewood officer blocked him from filming a traffic stop in 2019.

“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this. … If this makes me lose my, my reputation, I don’t care,” Tyler Ethridge, 33, said in a video he posted to social media while in the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents.

Megan Hess faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison after entering the plea Tuesday in Grand Junction

In the 2 years since Colorado's red flag law passed, petitions for protection orders have been filed in 20 of the 37 counties that declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, often by the very sheriffs who had previously denounced the law.

The fire at Life Choices was reported at 3:17 a.m. Saturday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and said abortion laws would be decided by the states

Jeremy Jacob Rocha, 20, who police believe was involved in the ad hoc event, was taken into custody on suspicion of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted first-degree murder

Daria Jalali, 28, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failure to intervene and faces up to five years of probation and 60 days in jail

Former Arvada police Officer Kraig Brownlow — the officer who mistook Hurley for the initial shooter and fatally shot him — and Arvada police Chief Link Strate are named in the lawsuit.

Reflecting a loose national movement, some Colorado sheriff candidates rail against government overreach, red flag laws

The jail needs a fully electronic records system to track whether its mental health and substance abuse programs are working, Denver AuditorTimothy O’Brien said.

Kelly Huber was killed and her daughters injured when they were thrown from the Grand County chairlift in December 2016

The men were arrested after a tipster reported what looked like "a little army" loading into a U-Haul van in the parking lot of a Cour d'Alene, Idaho, hotel

Leiyla Cepeda told an investigator the baby was quiet and not moving and did not seem to be breathing when she was born but declined to explain why the baby had stab wounds

Ryan Scott Montoya was sentenced on Tuesday in the 2021 death of Gwen Inglis

The trial of Colorado business man Timothy Shea ended with a deadlocked jury. A retrial is unlikely to occur before the fall.

Seifullah Chapman was incarcerated at ADX Florence when guards failed to provide him an adequate dosage of the life-saving drug, putting him at risk of dying, the suit alleged.