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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

Judge: Mom accused in QAnon kidnapping plot can stand trial

CASTLE ROCK – A Colorado woman accused of working with supporters of QAnon to have her son kidnapped from foster care can be put on trial, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Lawrence B...

DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Parents of Elijah McClain sue Colorado police over his death

DENVER – The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped him on the street last year and put him in a chokehold, sued police and med...

DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Reward offered in Denver fire that killed 5 from Senegal

DENVER – A $14,000 reward was offered Friday for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for setting a house fire that killed five people with ties to Senegal. The ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man accused of running over Sikh man charged with hate crime

A man accused of running over the Sikh owner of a suburban Denver liquor store after reportedly telling him and his wife to “go back to your country” is now facing a hate crime charge in add...

DATE: Jul 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man hit with Taser in daughter’s hospital room sues

A Colorado man who was hit with a Taser and then arrested in his daughter’s hospital room last year after refusing to give law enforcement officers a cellphone filed a federal lawsuit agains...

DATE: Jul 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Video shows officer point gun at doctor on his own property

A Colorado police department where officers were fired after re-enacting the chokehold death of a young Black man is under scrutiny again after video emerged of an officer pulling a gun on a...

DATE: Jul 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man sentenced to life in 1980 killing of Colorado intern

A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for killing a college student from Massachusetts working as a Denver radio station intern 40 years ago, a cold case solved with the...

DATE: Jul 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Gambian man charged in Colorado with torturing 2006 coup planners

DENVER – A Gambian man has been indicted in Colorado on federal charges that he tortured planners of a failed 2006 presidential coup when he was a member of a special armed unit that reporte...

DATE: Jun 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver protest devolves into 2nd night of confrontation

DENVER – Hundreds of people staged a raucous, roving protest in Denver on Friday that was generally peaceful until night fell, when police deployed gas canisters and fired pellet guns for a ...

DATE: May 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver mayor decries violence in protests over Floyd death

DENVER – Denver Mayor Michael Hancock called for calm and unity Friday after the first of several planned city protests over George Floyd’s death turned violent, declaring, “Let not the stor...