Colorado

The interim chief of a suburban Denver police department has become the first woman to permanently lead the agency looking to regain public trust following a tumultuous year

The police department in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing for officers handcuffing an entire family, including a 6-year-old girl, after mistaking their vehicle as stolen.

Police in suburban Denver have apologized after a group of Black girls was detained and at least two handcuffed during a weekend investigation of a stolen car

Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities over the weekend with shootings in Texas, Colorado and Oregon, vehicles burning in California and Virginia, and police retreating in Seattle.

The younger of two teens charged in the fatal shooting at a suburban Denver school last year has been sentenced to life in prison plus 38 years

A squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague, also known as “Black Death,” according to local health authorities.  The squirrel was found in a town in Jefferson County, which is west of Denver, and is the first case in the region, health authorities said in a statement released Sunday.  The case comes about a week after authorities...

Three officers were fired Friday over photos showing police reenact a chokehold used on Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died last year after police stopped him on the street in a Denver suburb. One of those fired is Jason Rosenblatt, a white Aurora officer who helped stop McClain in August for wearing a ski mask and “being suspicious.”…

Police in Aurora, Colorado, say one of the police officers investigated over photographs connected with the death of Elijah McClain has resigned

Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...

Businesswoman Lauren Boebert has upset five-term Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in the Republican primary for the 3rd Congressional District

Suburban Denver police say multiple officers are on paid leave during an investigation into photos that emerged of them near where Elijah McClain died last summer

The California Highway Patrol issued an alert Monday after a Colorado mother failed to drop off her 12-year-old son on Friday, but the search was later called off after they were found. An endangered missing advisory was issued Monday afternoon across San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego and Imperial counties. The boy was picked up by his mother on June 26,…

Officers from the Aurora, Colorado, police department have been placed on paid leave after allegations that “multiple” police officers were depicted in photos near the site where Elijah McClain died, the interim police chief said Monday night.

Three Colorado police officers involved in a deadly confrontation with a 23-year-old Black man last year were moved to “non-enforcement” duties as Elijah McClain’s arrest gains renewed scrutiny, officials said Friday.

Colorado’s governor ordered prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man put into a chokehold by suburban Denver police last year.

Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist, died in August 2019 after police in Aurora, Colorado, stopped him on his way home from the store and put him in an illegal chokehold. LX News host Nik Z reviews the body cam footage of his encounter with the cops and Marc Sallinger, a reporter for KUSA in Denver, gives an update...

The moment a car ran over a protester in Denver, Colo., during a George Floyd protest was captured on camera Thursday.

A man suspected of killing a woman in Denver was released from prison three weeks before the slaying due to concerns over the coronavirus

A retired Colorado paramedic who died from coronavirus after volunteering to help combat the pandemic in New York City was being honored Sunday as his body was returned to Denver

A new facility will soon begin cleaning used N95 masks for Colorado healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, using a “concentrated, vapor phase hydrogen peroxide.” According to Colorado officials, a single respirator can be “reused up to 20 times without degradation.”