Author: Kirk Mitchell
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SWAT team swarms Castle Rock home; man in custody
Douglas County SWAT officers stormed a home in the Founders Village neighborhood just after 7 p.m. Saturday and took into custody a 40-year-old man accused of shooting his pregnant wife earlier in the day. Police have not released the names of the couple, but family and neighbors identify them as Trenton Harrison Orendorf and his…
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Sterling prison inmate found dead after arrest in sex assaults
An inmate at Sterling Correctional Facility who was arrested Wednesday in two 1990s sexual assaults was found dead in his cell this afternoon, authorities say. The body of habitual criminal Michael Anthony Carey, 51, was discovered at 1:20 p.m., said Katherine Sanguinetti, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Denver cold-case Detective Larry Moore II…
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CU ski star dies in fall on Maroon Peak
A 20-year-old climber died Saturday near Aspen after being struck in the head by a rock and tumbling about 600 feet into a culoir. Spencer James Nelson, a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a member of its nationally-ranked ski team, already had summited one of the 14,000-foot Maroon Peaks and was…
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Sex-offender complaints led to quietly amended bill
The sponsor of an amendment late in the session that would allow sex offenders to choose their own treatment provider said she wrote the law partly because of complaints from a relative’s friend about an agency considered one of the strictest in Colorado. Sen. Joyce Foster, D-Denver, said she offered the amendment to the Sex…