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The checkpoint could reopen in urgent cases, but travelers are advised not to ever count on it.
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The checkpoint could reopen in urgent cases, but travelers are advised not to ever count on it.
The University of Colorado and CSU had their bowl games announced on Sunday. They'll play back-to-back on the same day.
Investigators say the driver fled and there were no witnesses to the crash. They're now asking anyone near South Logan Street between East Hampden and East Floyd Streets at the time to contact Englewood police.
Two officers responded to a call from security guards around 3:30 a.m. Monday to West Alaska Drive and South Vance Street. A Lakewood police spokesman says the still-unidentified man pointed a gun at officers and they shot him.
Firefighters extinguished an Arapahoe County garage fire and the occupants have been safely removed. Two deputies and a firefighter were evaluated for injuries and now fire officials say a dog and five cats are unaccounted for.
Few details were immediately available, but the sheriff's office says deputies responded to a call for a wellness check in the 7600 block of Heather Place around 4:45 p.m.
A coyote lunged at a 4-year-old girl in Colorado Springs on Thanksgiving, hospitalizing her. Now Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers say they will kill any coyote they find in the area of that attack.
A person involved in a crash on Interstate 25 just north of Colorado Springs was then struck and killed by a third motorist on Wednesday.
Deadly APD shootings were down in 2023 compared to 2022, but are back up again this year. In 2023, the department also had more total use of force incidents despite responding to fewer calls than in 2022, the data shows.
First responders in Colorado rescued two people from a trench at a construction site in the Greenwood Village area.
Police have deactivated an Amber Alert for a missing boy. The suspect, a 26-year-old woman, is believed to have shot a man in Lakewood before allegedly kidnapping the child.
Two people were killed and a third was injured when a U.S. Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado's Front Range Saturday morning.
Jeffrey Wood, the former chief of the Ouray Police Department who was fired after a slew of allegations were leveled against him, is now suing the city in federal court, claiming city officials violated his constitutional rights.
A man is dead after a crash near Tower Road and 40th Avenue and the man who allegedly caused it will be taken to jail after his release from the hospital after police say he had an outstanding warrant.
A Jefferson County man was allowing an employee to stay in the basement of his home when that employee forced himself on top of the man's daughter, according to the sheriff's office. He was arrested in Denver on Tuesday.