Crime and Public Safety

Pueblo officers shot the man in the 800 block of East Fifth Street shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday, after the man fired twice at law enforcement.

Matthew Omara stabbed Taylor Trevino and Christina Hardin in the 10100 block of East Harvard Avenue in December 2022, Denver police said.

An Adams County jury convicted Josh Lucero, a youth pastor at Word Alive church in Thornton, of child sex assault on Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice wants to join a local lawsuit challenging a 2021 Colorado law that sought to streamline the process for crime victims who are not U.S. citizens to apply for legal status within the country.

Aurora City Councilman Rob Andrews pleaded guilty to DUI in Arapahoe County District Court on Tuesday and was sentenced to home confinement.

A Colorado State Patrol trooper and Adams County sheriff’s deputy shot a man at a Denver gas station on Tuesday morning who was suspected of stealing a construction truck.

Emmeliea Whitelance and Auraelia Garcia were last spotted early Tuesday near South Telluride Street and East Smoky Hill Road in Centennial.

The commission overseeing Colorado’s Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel launched an investigation into the agency’s new leader Joanna Landau amid mounting complaints from attorneys and staff about her leadership.

Colleges and universities across the state must respond faster to missing students after Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill that followed University of Colorado Boulder student Megan Trussell’s death.