Commerce City News

An audit of Colorado's parole operations is being expanded to review whether budget issues are keeping parole officers from placing some high-risk parolees under intensive, electronic-monitoring supervision.

Although it has been a rough year for Prairie View High School senior Nicole Burnett, the 18-year-old Commerce City resident maintains an optimistic attitude.

The shooting of a service dog by city police has attracted the attention of an animal rights advocate who helped advance legislation at the state's General Assembly.

Tim Hand, Deputy Director, Division of Adult Parole, Community Corrections and Youthful Offender System, is photographed in his offices in Denver, CO on April 18, 2013.

Evan Ebel forced a 22-year-old Commerce City woman to buy him the handgun he used to kill Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements in March, the woman's attorney said Tuesday.

City employees gave more than $1,100 to support the city's Victims Services Unit program and to honor National Crime Victims' Right Week.

A bill to help make sure more Colorado schoolkids get a decent breakfast was signed into law May 15 by Gov.

The man charged with stabbing his girlfriend's 14-year-old sister to death in Commerce City has pleaded not guilty and is now scheduled for trial.

Legends at Lowry - an apartment complex developed by Peter Kudla , president and CEO of Metropolitan Homes of Centennial - has changed hands in a $27.75 million deal.

The law means that schools with higher levels of impoverished children will be required - with some exceptions - to serve a free breakfast to all students after the start of the school day.

The man accused of helping his friend murder a Commerce City elementary school teacher has been sentenced to 48 years in prison.

After more than 15 years at their location on East 47th Avenue, Satellite Shelters is planning an open house to mark their move.

Adams City High School senior Bianca Gonzalez, of Commerce City, was one of the metro Denver students awarded Ronald McDonald House Charities scholarships for 2013.

The Commerce City police officer accused of fatally shooting an unrestrained dog in November 2012 pleaded not guilty May 6 in Adams City District Court.

Atlas Copco has appointed Dave Pietrzykowski vice president of parts and service for Atlas Copco CMT USA, Commerce City, Colo.

The Your Neighborhood Food Truck makes a stop at the Health Fair at Lincoln High School on Saturday.

He clocked his first arrest at age 12, and he fought with staff and others as an unwieldy 16-year-old at a boot camp for troubled kids in Samoa.

WHAT: Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign House Bill 2013-1006, the Breakfast After the Bell Nutrition Program, in a signing ceremony with school children at an elementary school in Adams County School District 14 of Commerce City.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on Wednesday rebuffed demands from Adams County elected officials that he spell out how development at Denver International Airport will benefit them - and do it in seven days.

Four staff members of the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office were honored Thursday for their outstanding service to crime victims.