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A recently obtained autopsy report for a Denver hairstylist, who was missing for over two months before being found dead, is raising questions and concerns for her mother and her victim advocate.
The Lee Fire near Meeker is now over 116,000 acres, fire maps show, and has surpassed the Spring Creek Fire of 2018 as the state's fifth-largest wildfire. Here are the four largest fires in the state's history.
The project comes after city officials were calling for the road to be flattened for over two years. The stretch of road will see single and double lane closures every Sunday through Thursday night for the next three months.
The largest of several wildfires in northwestern Colorado grew to over 100,000 acres overnight, prompting new evacuations. Fire crews have made some gains in containing the fire, however, going from 0% to 6% containment.
The minimum wage in Denver will go up almost 50 cents on Jan. 1, in line with a city ordinance passed in 2019 that increases minimum wage in an effort to rise with the cost of living.
An alleged drunk driver was arrested and a screaming child was rescued from their car after state troopers received a report of an erratic driver with no license plates and a gas pump nozzle hanging out of their tank, CSP said.
In addition to the airport's new East Security Checkpoint, the bridge and walkway to Concourse A opened, allowing passengers to walk over the tarmac and watch planes taxi below them.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday expanded an emergency declaration issued earlier this week for the Elk Fire to include the Lee Fire, which has merged with the nearby Grease Fire near Meeker and grown from 13,000 to almost 23,000 acres overnight.
A 33-year-old Longmont man bonded out of jail after turning himself in on 20 counts of sexual exploitation of a child under 12 years old; a class 3 "extraordinary risk" felony, according to investigators.
Terry Pendleton has never served in law enforcement, but he equipped his Ford Explorer with red and blue lights, a siren, and a PA system to get people to move over when he was driving, according to Lone Tree police.
Attorneys representing the family of an unarmed man shot and killed by an Aurora police officer called that shooting "the worst Aurora police killing since Elijah McClain" and have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
The Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District called for an evacuation of the Panorama subdivision and areas east of County Road 100 to Upper Cattle Creek Road.
A 62-year-old man was struck and killed by two vehicles while crossing Interstate 225, just south of East Iliff Avenue, late Saturday night, Aurora police say.
One person is dead, at least three are injured, and at least two suspects are at large in two separate overnight incidents in Denver, police say.
Jefferson County sheriff's deputies responded to a road rage incident that started in Clear Creek Canyon. At least one suspect shot at another driver and then tossed guns into a pond before two people were arrested.