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.
Douglas County deputies responded to the hit-and-run crash near Willowbridge Way and East Wildcat Reserve Parkway in Highlands Ranch shortly after 10:30 a.m. Monday.
As of 12:37 p.m., eastbound lanes between Horizon Drive near Clifton and Cameo were closed, CDOT said.
A late-night crash in Aurora near East Iliff Avenue and South Idalia Street involving a stolen motorcycle killed a man and sent a woman to the hospital, police said.
A Colorado grand jury will investigate whether an Aurora police officer should be charged for fatally shooting Rajon Belt-Stubblefield after he evaded a traffic stop.
Ivan Gandara of Denver was sentenced to 22 years in a Colorado prison for child sex trafficking, Larimer County officials said.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane indicated in court that he would have the authority to intervene should the federal government re-arrest the ex-wife and children of Mohamed Soliman, the 46-year-old man who killed one woman and burned 13 others in the June 1 attack on Boulder’s popular pedestrian mall.
Colorado officials identified the family killed in a suspected murder-suicide in Thornton last week as David, May and Asher Nelimark.
Former Colorado public defender Thomas Cushing was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of sex assault on a child involving a pattern of abuse.