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Lawyer for Danish man charged in wildfire wants case dismissed

DENVER – A lawyer for a Danish man charged with arson for starting a wildfire that destroyed more than 100 homes in southern Colorado in 2018 urged a judge on Thursday to dismiss the case ag...

DATE: Jan 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Suspected militia member held on charges in Capitol riot

DENVER – A suspected militia member from Colorado arrested in connection with the deadly U.S. Capitol riot will be kept in federal custody at the request of federal prosecutors after his ini...

DATE: Jan 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police seize guns over threats against attorney general

DENVER – Denver police used a relatively new state law to get a court order in November to seize the firearms of a man who allegedly threatened to kill Colorado’s attorney general and other ...

DATE: Jan 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

El Paso County jail agrees to do more to stop virus spread

DENVER – Inmates in a Colorado jail will get daily temperature checks and those who test positive for COVID-19 will be regularly monitored by medical staff members under a temporary deal neg...

DATE: Jan 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado Guardsman has first reported U.S. case of virus variant

DENVER – A Colorado National Guard member has the first reported U.S. case of a new and seemingly more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has set off alarm in Britain, while a second...

DATE: Dec 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado mother pleads not guilty in daughter’s death

DENVER – A woman charged with killing her daughter after allegedly fraudulently portraying her as terminally ill and seeking donations to cover her medical care pleaded not guilty Wednesday....

DATE: Dec 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Man fired flare into fuel-soaked car near station

DENVER – A man was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment and arson after firing a flare gun into his car, which contained items soaked with gasoline outside a Denver police station,...

DATE: Nov 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Women challenge tribal banishment in U.S. appeals court

DENVER – A lawyer for four women who were temporarily banned from the Ute Indian Tribe’s reservation in Utah asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to revive a lawsuit challenging their pu...

DATE: Nov 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado, ACLU reach deal to protect inmates from virus

DENVER – The state corrections department would hire a consultant to help it identify and protect medically vulnerable inmates from the coronavirus under a proposed settlement of a lawsuit b...

DATE: Nov 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man charged with pointing laser at Denver police helicopter

DENVER – A man who was arrested by Denver police during a post-election protest has been charged in federal court with aiming a laser pointer at a police helicopter, the U.S. Attorney’s Offi...

DATE: Nov 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

TV guard’s lawyer: Evidence of self-defense in shooting

DENVER – A lawyer representing a television station security guard who shot and killed a demonstrator during opposing right- and left-leaning rallies this month told a judge Wednesday that t...

DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver police release images in fatal car-scooter crash

DENVER – Denver police on Tuesday asked the public for help identifying people seen in a car suspected of hitting and killing a man who was riding an electric scooter downtown last month. ...

DATE: Oct 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News