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JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Weld County Sheriff John Cooke speaks during a press conference Friday morning at the Independence Institute, 727 16th Ave., in Denver.

Roy O. Downing was a 23-year-old part-time Denver policeman working on a cold morning in December 1920 when the open coal chute of a home on Park Hill's Bellaire Street caught his eye.

Kenneth Gomez, 30, serving time for burglary and disturbing the peace, escaped from a minimum-security prison near Golden on April 17.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories.

Magpul Industries joined 54 Colorado county sheriffs Friday in filing a federal lawsuit against the state's recently signed gun-control bills.

KC Stark, founder and owner of Studio A64, says the time has come for public acceptance of the new state law, but others aren't so sure.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- Could you imagine going years without having an identification card? That's been the case for several local residents.

The Denver home where Wild West entertainer William "Buffalo Bill" Cody died in 1917 will be offered for sale, Inside Real Estate News reports .

I f you were raised in the Denver Metro area, you may have grown up with an altered perception of Denver's Five Points neighborhood.

The fate of one Colorado mass murderer has become entwined with that of another as Colorado Gov.

Iliff School of Theology trustees have appointed Rev. Thomas V. Wolfe as the institution's 14th president, effective Aug.

Days after a gunman entered a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 moviegoers and injuring 70 others, Gov.

Denver prosecutors on Thursday filed first-degree murder charges against a 20-year-old man accused of killing another man in a Denny's restaurant parking lot earlier this month.

An apartment building was evacuated on Capitol Hill on Downing Street near East 9th Avenue due to the discovery of a suspicious box on Thursday, May 16, 2013.

Denver's Library Commission has received more than 100 letters and petitions with the signatures of 517 people from around the country who want the new West Denver branch to be named after controversial Chicano activist Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales.

On May 13, SB226 was signed into law by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper . Now known as the Dog Protection Act, dog advocates around the world are in hopes this new law will set an example for other states to follow.

After 18 months of cleanup around Suncor's oil refinery, contamination of the South Platte River is diminishing, but concentrations of cancer-causing benzene in the water remain six times higher than the national safety standard.

A Sloan's Lake neighborhood block that united to transform thirsty sloped lawns into low-water gardens bursting with beautiful blooms is collectively joining The Conflict Center's 13th Annual Enchanted Gardens Tour of Northwest Denver, on Saturday, June 8. "There's the saying, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' But, really, it's 'Good gardeners ... (more)

Gov. John Hickenlooper has spoken with seven prosecutors and two defense attorneys as well as victims' families as he ponders whether to grant clemency to Nathan Dunlap, who faces execution in August for ambushing and killing four people in 1993.

A bill was signed earlier this week making shelter dogs and cats Colorado's official state pet.