Author: Kirk Mitchell
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Denver police searching for semi that damaged bridges in hit, hit, hit and run
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Police are searching for a white semi-tractor trailer that damaged three bridges Thursday afternoon in a hit, hit, hit and run. Three lanes of northbound Interstate 25 were closed after a semi-tractor trailer damaged 23rd…
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Metro Denver kills one early Saturday, northbound I-25 reopened
A woman who drove south on the northbound lanes of Interstate-25 was killed and two men were seriously injured in a head-on collision that triggered a chain-reaction crash involving two other vehicles including a semi-tractor trailer. Colorado State Patrol troopers closed all three northbound lanes of the highway in Broomfield in order to investigate what…
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Mother of five killed in Castle Rock; police investigate
Castle Rock police are investigating the alleged murder of a 36-year-old woman and attempted suicide of a 44-year-old man in the Founders Village neighborhood, authorities say. The names of the victim and suspect have not been released. The suspect was in critical condition undergoing surgery, according to a news release by Castle Rock police. Castle…
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Supermax accused of violating rules for treating mentally ill
Officials at the nation’s highest security prison are ignoring their own newly created policies regarding mentally ill prisoners as they fail to treat those who carve holes in their bodies with chicken bones and smear feces on themselves, a new filing in a federal lawsuit says. According to an amended complaint filed recently in U.S.…
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One Denver block buried under up to 4 feet of hail
Up to 4 feet of ice buried all the territory between Dakota and Alaska — streets, that is. In some ways it was “gi-normous,” freakishly so. In other ways it was microscopically small. The hail that pounded down between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Thursday turned a block of South Irving Street into a massive…
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Eight Colorado climbers on Everest are safe following earthquake
Five Colorado men, including a man who co-authored a book about a fatal mountain-climbing accident, were on Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 1,100 people in Nepal and triggered an avalanche on Everest that swept away a critical route over a glacier. Author Jim Davidson, Alan Arnette, Dr. Jon Kedrowski,…
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Gas station owner files suit, claims Denver cops roughed him up
A gas station owner has sued Denver police in federal court claiming they beat and arrested him after he refused to return a money order to a customer who had previously given him a fraudulent one. Bill Dau named the city of Denver and patrolmen Jason M. Duran and Michael D. Gunter as defendants in…
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El Paso County sheriff vows new emphasis on Tom Clements murder investigation
Two years after former Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements was gunned down at his doorstep in Monument, no one has been arrested, little is known about the homicide investigation and the main suspect is dead. El Paso County’s new sheriff, who took office in January, now says the investigation into Clements’ murder was hampered by…
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Man sues El Paso County jail after losing 10 toes to gangrene
A former El Paso County jail inmate sued the county in Denver federal court claiming deputies disregarded the condition of his festering feet until 10 toes and part of his left foot had to be amputated. Christopher Spencer brought the lawsuit against Sheriff Bill Elder, claiming El Paso county deputies were deliberately indifferent to his…
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Beliefs clash at lesbian’s funeral evicted from church in Lakewood
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The eviction of a funeral mid-service at a Lakewood church could have been avoided had a clash of beliefs between a pastor and a lesbian family been vented beforehand, religious leaders said Wednesday. For Pastor…