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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

Man described as neo-Nazi pleads guilty in synagogue plot

DENVER – A man described by U.S. prosecutors as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to a hate crime for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue last year. ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Panel upholds firing of Colorado police office for ignoring pleas

DENVER – An independent municipal panel on Tuesday upheld the termination of a Colorado police officer fired for not assisting a restrained Black woman who begged for help after she became l...

DATE: Oct 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Homeless challenge Denver encampment sweeps in federal court

DENVER – Homeless people filed a federal lawsuit on Monday seeking to stop Denver from clearing their encampments around the city, saying the operations violate their constitutional rights a...

DATE: Oct 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Video: Hobbled Black woman begged for help in police cruiser

DENVER – A suburban police agency near Denver is facing more scrutiny for its officers’ treatment of Black people after a video emerged showing a woman begging to be lifted up after she fell...

DATE: Sep 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Appeals court orders new sentencing in homemade bomb case

DENVER – A man who left a homemade bomb outside a police station in a Colorado mountain town could spend less time in prison under a U.S. appeals court decision in the case. David...

DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Woman accused in QAnon kidnapping plot pleads not guilty

DENVER – A Colorado woman accused of plotting with supporters of QAnon to have her son kidnapped from foster care pleaded not guilty to second-degree kidnapping on Friday. Cynthia...

DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver appeals court considers appeal in trooper shooting

DENVER – A lawyer for a man sentenced to death in the 1999 killing of an Oklahoma state trooper urged a Denver federal appeals court on Thursday to throw out a judge’s ruling that he was not...

DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. appeals court in Denver eyes American Samoa citizenship

DENVER – Whether people who live in territories controlled by the U.S. automatically become citizens under a constitutional amendment that secured citizenship for freed slaves was a major fo...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver police investigate baton assault of protester

DENVER – Denver police are investigating an allegation that an officer sexually assaulted a protester with a baton while taking him into custody in July. After police tackled Mich...

DATE: Sep 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

A year after Elijah McClain’s death, activists want charges

DENVER – A year after Elijah McClain was stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from the store, people gathered on a football field on Sunday night to dance and sing and to als...

DATE: Aug 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News