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FILE - Linda Stanley leaves the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse after the first day of her disciplinary hearing, June 10, 2024, in Denver. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP, File)

DA who oversaw abandoned prosecution of Colorado man in wife’s death should be disbarred, panel says

State regulators have ruled that a district attorney who brought charges that were ultimately dismissed against a Colorado man accused of killing his wife should no longer be allowed to work as a lawyer, finding that her mismanagement of the case resulted in the prosecution “running aground.”

Woman recounts praying after falling while trying to escape Colorado supermarket shooting

A woman who fell while trying to escape the shooting at a Colorado supermarket testified Friday during the trial of a man charged with killing 10 people there in 2021.

A protester holds up a placard during a rally staged by the East Colfax Community Collective to address chronic problems in the apartment buildings occupied by people displaced from their home countries in central and South America Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Police deny Venezuela gang has taken over rundown apartment complex in Denver suburb

Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex.

FILE - Tributes cover the temporary fence around the King Soopers grocery store in which 10 people died in a mass shooting in late March on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Shooter’s sanity at issue as trial begins in Colorado supermarket mass killing

A prosecutor says a man who killed 10 people in a Colorado supermarket mass shooting knew what he was doing and was sane but his attorney says that wasn’t the case.

FILE - Tributes cover the temporary fence around the King Soopers grocery store in which 10 people died in a mass shooting in late March on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Trial expected to focus on shooter’s competency in 2021 Colorado supermarket massacre

The man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is going on trial this week. No one disputes that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa opened fire at the store in the college town of Boulder, including his lawyers.

Man arrested in Colorado dog breeder’s killing, but the puppies are still missing

Sergio Ferrer, 36, was arrested Aug. 24, a few hours after the body of Paul Peavey, 57, was found on his property in the mountains just west of Denver, the Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office announced. Ferrer was considered a person of interest in Peavey’s death at the time but was initially arrested on a

This photo provided the family shows Brent Thompson, center, with his sister, Adrianne Thompson, left, and their mother, Karen Kay Thompson. Brent Thompson died after being hit by an SUV on Interstate 25 in Colorado after being shocked with a Taser by a sheriff's deputy in 2023. (Karen Kay Thompson via AP)

Family of man killed by SUV on interstate after being shocked by a Taser reaches $5M settlement

The family of a man who was hit and killed by an SUV on a Colorado interstate after a sheriff’s deputy shocked him with a Taser has reached a $5 million settlement in his death.

Search is on for up to 10 Doberman puppies after dog breeder is killed

Authorities are investigating the killing of a Colorado dog breeder and trying to find as many as 10 Doberman puppies missing from his business. Officials haven’t determined a motive for last week’s homicide of 57-year-old Paul Peavey.

Former Mesa County, Colo., county clerk Tina Peters, center, arrives at the Mesa County Justice Center for her trial Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, in Grand Junction, Colo. (Larry Robinson/Grand Junction Sentinel via AP)

Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, one-time hero to election deniers, convicted in computer breach

Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election amid unfounded conspiracy theories, has been found guilty by a jury on most of the charges she faced.

Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters arrives at the Mesa County Justice Center for her trial Wednesday, July 31, 2024, with her team of lawyers in Grand Junction, Colo. (Christopher Tomlinson/Grand Junction Sentinel via AP)

Former Colorado clerk was shocked after computer images were shared online, employee testifies

An employee of former Colorado clerk Tina Peters who says she was present when her boss allowed an outsider posing as a county employee to breach her voting system’s computer says Peters was shocked when images from the computer appeared online.

Flames rise amid the billowing smoke from a wildland fire burning along the ridges near the Ken Caryl Ranch development Wednesday, July 31, 2024, southwest of Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West

A person has been killed in a wildfire burning in the Colorado foothills as numerous blazes torch large areas around the western United States. The blaze is one of several burning along the state’s heavily-populated Front Range.

FILE - Tina Peters, former Mesa County, Colo., clerk, listens during her trial, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Grand Junction, Colo. (Scott Crabtree/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

Colorado clerk who became hero to election conspiracists wanted to preserve data, lawyer says

A lawyer for former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election conspiracy theorists who is accused of orchestrating a breach of election security equipment, was trying to prevent voting information from being erased and didn’t break any laws.

Victor Moses talks in his apartment located in a high-rise building Thursday, July 25, 2024, in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Police recruit who lost both legs in ‘barbaric hazing ritual’ sues Denver, paramedics and officers

A police recruit who had to have both of his legs amputated after repeatedly collapsing and losing consciousness during fight training at Denver’s police academy is suing the city, officers and paramedics.

Death row inmate Taberon Honie arrives for a Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

Utah officials deny clemency for man set to be executed for 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother

Utah officials have denied clemency to a man who is set to be executed for the 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother. Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 8.

Joe Ridenour sits for a portrait on the steps of the recreational vehicle he once called home in Castle Rock, Colo., on Friday, July 12, 2024. Ridenour said he would have been consumed by his drug abuse if not for the help and shelter provided by The Rock non-denominational evangelical church. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Church sues Colorado town to be able to shelter homeless in trailers, work ‘mandated by God’

An evangelical church is suing a Colorado town to be able to continue allowing homeless people to stay in two camping trailers behind its building.

Death row inmate Taberon Honie looks on during the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

Family of Utah murder victim wants ‘an eye for an eye’ as inmate’s execution date looms

Family members of a woman killed in 1998 are pressing Utah officials to proceed with the convicted killer’s scheduled Aug. 8 execution.

Death row inmate Taberon Honie speaks during the Utah Board of Pardons commutation hearing Monday, July 22, 2024, at the Utah State Correctional Facility, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool)

A man facing execution for 1998 murder addresses Utah parole board, asks for life sentence instead

A man facing execution in Utah has addressed state officials, asking them to spare him the death penalty and allow him to remain imprisoned for life. The two-day commutation hearing began Monday in Salt Lake City for Taberon Dave Honie.

FILE - U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., listens during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2022. Sasse, who left office to become the University of Florida president, announced late Thursday, July 18, 2024, that he will leave his job at the university at the end of the month so he can focus on taking care of his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

University of Florida president Ben Sasse is resigning after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy

University of Florida president Ben Sasse has announced that he will leave his position of nearly two years to focus on taking care of his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.

FILE - The house where five Senegalese immigrants were murdered in a fire is surrounded by old bouquets, stuffed animals and other remembrances, Jan. 27, 2021, in Denver. Kevin Bui has been sentenced to 60 years in prison, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, after pleading guilty to murder charges for starting the 2020 fire. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP, File)

Ringleader of fire that killed 5 in Senegalese family, ripping hole in the community, gets 60 years

A Colorado man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing five members of an extended Senegalese family in a house fire.

Miss Shoshnone-Bannock Queen Develynn Hall takes the stage during a naming ceremony for a white buffalo calf at the headquarters of the Buffalo Field Campaign in West Yellowstone, Mont., Wednesday, June 26, 2024. The reported birth of the calf in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times. (AP Photo/Sam Wilson)

Yellowstone officials: Rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans not seen since June 4 birth

Yellowstone National Park officials say a rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans has not been seen since its birth on June 4.

Man arrested in Colorado triple-shooting after crash and intensive search

Authorities say the man arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in southern Colorado is suspected of killing a man by shooting him in the head and wounding two others. Henry Corral was taken into custody following an intensive search.

Family of Black man shot while holding cellphone want murder trial for SWAT officer

Relatives of a Black man holding a cellphone when he was fatally shot by a SWAT officer want the officer to face trial for murder. The family spoke Thursday after portions of body camera footage of the shooting were released.

FILE - A television cameraman works near a tribute to the victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub painted on the side of a downtown commercial building Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club set to plead guilty to federal hate crimes

The person who killed five people and wounded over a dozen others during a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs is set to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday.

FILE - Robert Dear talks to Judge Gilbert Martinez during a court appearance in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 9, 2015. Dear, who is charged with killing three people in 2015 at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic because it offered abortion services, can be forcibly medicated, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, June 10, 2024. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, Pool, File)

Mentally ill man charged in Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting can be forcibly medicated

A federal appeals court says a mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services can be forcibly medicated. Monday’s ruling from the U.S.

District attorney who prosecuted Barry Morphew faces disciplinary hearing

A district attorney who brought charges that were ultimately dismissed against a Colorado man accused of killing his wife is facing a discipline hearing that could lead to her disbarment.

In this image provided by the Arvada, Colo. Police Department, emergency personnel work at the scene of small plane crash, Friday morning, June 7, 2024, in Arvada, Colo. Four people were hospitalized after a small plane crashed in the front yard of a suburban Denver home on Friday, authorities said. (Arvada Police Department via AP)

4 hospitalized after small plane crashes in suburban Denver yard after trying to land on street

Authorities say four people were hospitalized in serious to critical condition after a small plane crashed into the front yard of a suburban Denver home after trying to land in the street.

Man takes murder plea deal in first Colorado case impacted by work of embattled DNA analyst

A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the killings of three people in 2017 in the first prosecution believed to be impacted by the work of a state DNA analyst accused of tampering with test results.

FILE - This screen grab from dash camera video provided by the Fort Lupton Police Department shows a freight train barreling toward a parked police car with a suspect inside, Sept. 16, 2022, in Fort Lupton, Colo. A Colorado city has agreed to pay $8.5 million in a settlement with a woman who was seriously injured when she was left handcuffed inside a patrol car parked on railroad tracks that was hit by a freight train. (Fort Lupton Police Department via AP, File)

A Colorado woman who was handcuffed in a police car hit by a train receives an $8.5M settlement

A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement.

This image provided by JJ Unger, shows hail surrounding a vehicle, Monday night, May 20, 2024, in Yuma, Colo. Residents in the small city in northeastern Colorado were cleaning up Tuesday after hail the size of baseballs and golf balls pounded the community, with heavy construction equipment and snow shovels being used to clear hail that had piled up knee-deep the night before. (JJ Unger via AP)

Heavy equipment, snow shovels used to clean up hail piled knee-deep in small Colorado city

Residents in a small city in the northeastern corner of Colorado are cleaning up after hail the size of baseballs and golf balls pounded the community.

FILE - Investigators stand outside a house where five immigrants from Senegal were found dead after a fire in suburban Denver on Aug. 5, 2020. Kevin Bui pleaded guilty Friday, May 17, 2024, to a house fire that killed five members of the Senegalese family in 2020 in a case of misplaced revenge caused by mistakenly tracking his stolen iPhone to the home. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Man who sought revenge for a stolen phone pleads guilty to fire that killed a Senegalese family of 5

A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to murder charges for starting a 2020 house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone.