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Malbert 'Mal' Middlesworth joined the U.S. Marine Corps a month before graduating high school. He was 17 years old at the time. He survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, fought during task force operations in the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal Island, and served as president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
Authorities went door-to-door to ensure residents would leave the area around the lower portion of Golden Gate Canyon after a wildfire ignited Saturday.
A wildfire in the southwest area of Florissant threatened nearby structures and burned close to 1,047 acres, according to an emergency alert from Park County to area residents.
A Lakewood pharmacy and its pharmacist owner, accused by federal investigators of illegally filling prescriptions with "exceptionally high opioid dosages and dangerous drug combinations" for more than six years and contributing to the opioid epidemic, recently avoided criminal prosecution.
Heavy snow fell from the roof of a Purgatory Resort ski condo and struck a parent and two children. The extent of their injuries was not made public.
Rudy Salazar was on parole in June 2021 when he stole a tow truck and drove against oncoming traffic for five blocks in Greeley. The tow truck hit five other vehicles, the last belonging to a Greeley Police Department sergeant.
Search and rescue teams converged Sunday for a mission near the west ridge of Highlands Peak following an avalanche.
After deliberating for six hours, a Denver jury recently returned a guilty verdict and convicted 23-year-old Donald Gonzales of 2nd Degree Murder in the 2021 death of Gary McLaughlin.
Two men are reportedly hospitalized and one was killed after they were caught in an avalanche Friday near the town of Marble.
The remains of two bodies found decades ago in Lake County and Mesa County were recently identified with the help forensic genetic genealogy that led authorities to family members.
Federal prosecutors claimed 33-year-old Benjamin David Harbin of Grand Junction, using "Cuteboy4110" as his handle and a picture of a puppy for his profile photo, contacted more than 100 minors on Instagram. Most were young girls under the age of 12.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined a Utah-based corporation more than $300,000 for safety violations following an accident that killed two workers at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo last year.
After coming up short Saturday, Moffat County road crews are again digging their way to three tractor-trailers stuck on a dirt road along the Wyoming-Colorado border Sunday. These rigs are the latest in a stream of vehicles that have become stranded in Colorado in drivers' attempts to evade weather-related road closures in Wyoming.
A Grand Junction truck driver who was previously sentenced to 324 years in prison for sexually assaulting children, then released when that conviction was overturned on a technicality, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
Three current employees and one former employee of the Summit County School District have been indicted by a grand jury for failing to report child abuse.