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Denver, Colo., May 19, 2013 / 04:01 pm .- Hovering 500 feet above the ground, a ride in the Prayer One helicopter offers community leaders the opportunity to join in fellowship and prayer above their beloved Mile-High City.

Officers were in West Denver on Sunday searching for David Shane Gosik, 34, at an apartment complex at Hampden Avenue and Harlan Street.

Colorado's recently approved gun control laws, passed in response to the Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., massacres, are being challenged by a delegation of sheriffs who say the laws are unconstitutional.

The Rev. Lucas Grubbs, the rector of the burned Church of the Ascension in Denver, wrestles with issues of urban homeless.

In his annual State of the State address last January, Gov. John Hickenlooper gave the General Assembly a wish list that included civil unions, universal background checks, tuition for undocumented students, Medicaid expansion, a comprehensive overhaul of the state's mental health system and school finance and a bill to support advanced industries.

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.