Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Denver leaders hope to improve the city’s response to domestic violence victims through new, unified approach to strangulation cases. | | | | | Two teenagers were killed in a suspected murder-suicide at a Lakewood home on Monday morning, police officials said. | | | | | An inmate died Monday at a federal prison in southern Colorado after being found unresponsive in the facility, according to federal officials. | | | | | A man accused of shooting two Colorado State Patrol troopers and firing on a sheriff’s deputy following an attempted traffic stop west of Woodland Park was fatally shot, state officials said. | | | | | An Adams County jury convicted Joshua Lucero in May of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust — pattern of abuse, according to court records. | | | | | An SUV crashed into an 85-year-old cyclist and killed them, prompting officials to close part of the southbound Diagonal Highway south of Longmont Monday morning. | | | | | A man arrested in a suspected vandalism in western Colorado was hospitalized after a confrontation with Mesa County sheriff’s deputies early Saturday, police said. | | | | | Federal Boulevard was partially closed in north metro Denver after a motorcycle crash sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries, Westminster police said Saturday. | | | | | A pedestrian was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash near Denver’s Chaffee Park neighborhood early Saturday, police officials said. | | | | | A Colorado State Patrol sergeant was arrested Thursday in Firestone on suspicion of assaulting a woman in 2024, then threatening her after he learned of the warrant for his arrest. | | | |
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