A skier was fatally injured Wednesday at Keystone Resort in Summit County. The accident occurred on The Grizz, a run in the resort’s Outback area, the sheriff's office said. The man was wearing a helmet.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
COMMERCE CITY CRASH KILLS MOTORCYCLIST
POLICE ARREST DENVER HIT & RUN SUSPECT
Raul Villa Martinez, 18, has been arrested as a suspect in the New Year's Eve hit-and-run death of a pedestrian in the vicinity of Federal Boulevard and Arizona Avenue in Denver, police said Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
DEPUTIES ARREST MAN ACCUSED OF STAGING KIDNAPPING, TORCHING CAR
Elvyn Yohel Ramos, 25, was standing in the shoulder of the interstate on Oct. 24 "with clear packing tape around his mouth and loosely around his wrists," according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. "Initial statements claimed he had been kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint by two unknown suspects who allegedly restrained him and set the vehicle on fire. "However, inconsistencies were identified during multiple interviews," officials said. "A comprehensive investigation was conducted, and it was determined that the fire was intentionally set. There was no evidence discovered to support the presence of additional suspect vehicles or a kidnapping. "Ramos also filed an insurance claim several days later, reporting the fire as accidental. Investigators later confirmed the claim details were inconsistent with physical evidence and prior admissions." [Photo: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office]
MODERN DAY 'THELMA AND LOUISE' OUTRUN POLICE CAR
Delta police tracked down a pair of suspects accused of outrunning officers at more than 100 mph Tuesday night in an auto without license places.
[Photo: Delta Police Department]
COMMERCE CITY COPS HIT $250,000+ JACKPOT
Commerce City police officers stopped an auto overnight and seized "a copious amount" of Fentanyl and Methamphetamine worth upwards of $250,000. The driver faces felony drug distribution charges, police said.
[Photo: Commerce City Police Department]
FIRE BREAKS OUT INSIDE JUMBO GARAGE IN AURORA
An "electrical malfunction" ignited a blaze Wednesday at a 7-bay garage in the 2200-block of South Oakland Way in Aurora. Two vehicles were damaged. No injuries were reported, Aurora Fire Rescue said.
[Photo: Aurora Fire Rescue]
2 DOGS LOST IN DENVER HOUSE FIRE TRAGEDY
Two dogs succumbed to their injuries at a house fire Wednesday in Montbello, the Denver Fire Department said. The fire was in the basement. "Quick action by Engine 27 stopped the fire from spreading," officials said. No humans were hurt. [Photo: Denver Fire Department]
MAN KNIFED AT HOTEL IN WESTMINSTER
Police arrested a teenage boy as a suspect in a stabbing early Wednesday at a hotel near 120th Avenue and Pecos Street in Westminster, police said. The stabbing victim, a man, is expected to survive serious injuries. The two are acquainted, police said.
ARREST DENVER STABBING SUSPECT
Police arrested a suspect in Monday night's fatal stabbing in the 4200-block of North Lipan Street in Denver. The suspect and the victim were acquainted and had been in "prior conflicts," police said.
SAY FAREWELL TO SPRING - AGAIN
The National Weather Service says the Denver area is on tap for one more day of unseasonably warm and mild weather Wednesday - and then snow. [Image: National Weather Service]
RARE FORM OF DEMENTIA STRIKES MAN, JUST 24
Newsweek reports a 24‑year‑old British man died from a rare form of dementia - and left instructions to donate his brain to medical researchers. Frontotemporal dementia is caused by a protein mutation.
BEWARE YELLOW TAG HOME MORTGAGE SCAM IN COLORADO
TRAIN IGNITES BRUSH FIRE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY
A passing train ignited a brush fire along Highway 85 near Titan Parkway in Doulas County, South Metro Fire said. The blaze scorched about a quarter-acre Monday. [Photo: South Metro Fire]
PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN WELD COUNTY
A pedestrian was struck and killed Tuesday on Highway 85 at Second Street in Eaton, police said.
BANK ROBBER WHO SHOT AT COPS GOING AWAY FOR QUARTER CENTURY
Simon Meza has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for robbing two Denver banks and shooting at pursing police officers, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Meza, 45, a felon, demanded money from a teller at the Huntington Bank branch at 18520 East Green Valley Ranch Boulevard and fled Sept. 20, 2023. Eight days later, Sept. 28, he did it again at a PNC Bank branch on West 32nd Avenue - but encountered Denver police.
Prosectors said: "Officers tried to arrest Meza in the truck, but Meza led officers on a high-speed chase" and "during the chase, Meza leaned out of the truck and fired one round from his Glock 27 .40 caliber handgun, striking the pursuing police vehicle in the front bumper.
"The chase ended when Meza caused a four-car accident at 44th Avenue and Harlan Street in Wheat Ridge. Meza then fled from the vehicle and was chased and arrested. Officers found the stolen money and loaded Glock 27 .40 caliber firearm in the truck."
Marvin Massey, head of the FBI in Denver, said: "Here we have a previous offender who could have taken advantage of state and federal opportunities to rehabilitate himself. Instead, he robbed two banks and fired on the officer who gave chase when he fled."
COYOTE UGLY
Police in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge report increased coyote activity due to our milder than usual winter weather. "Keep your pets leashed and don’t feed wildlife! Continue to haze coyotes to reinforce a healthy fear of humans," they say.
STABBED TO DEATH IN DENVER
A person was fatally stabbed Tuesday in the 4200-block of North Lipan Street in Denver, police said.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
FREEZE FUNDS FOR LITTLE KIDS
Reports say the White House is freezing childcare funds to Colorado and three other Blue States in the wake of fraud allegations in Minnesota.
WOMAN STRUCK BY 2 AUTOS IN GREELEY
A woman crossing Highway 34 in Greeley "in an unmarked area with no crosswalk" was struck by two vehicles and killed, police said. No charges are anticipated against the drivers involved in Monday's accident. No one else was injured.
POLICE IDENTIFY TEEN SLAIN AT MADURO OUSTER PARTY; SECOND VICTIM NEAR DEATH
Denver police identified the youth shot dead at a large celebration marking the ouster of Venezuelan President Maduro as William Rodriguez Salas, 16.Three other people were injured - and "one other victim is also not expected to survive their injuries," police said.
The crime occurred Saturday night in a parking lot in 10100-block of East Hampton Avenue near South Galena Street. The celebration included a food truck displaying a Venezuelan flag.
Police are seeking suspects and have yet to comment on a motive. Venezuelan gangsters have a violent presence in the Denver area.
If you have information, call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7876.
ARSON? FEDS JOIN LEETSDALE INFERNO PROBE; NO SIGN OF BODIES IN RUBBLE
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Tuesday it is sending its National Response Team to Denver to investigate Friday's five-alarm inferno at an apartment building under construction on Leetsdale Drive - one of the worst blazes in the city's history.
"We're looking a everything now" from arson to fireworks to an accident, Robert Murphy, operations chief of the Denver Fire Department, told a news conference.
Cadaver dogs found no evidence of victims in the pit of rubble, Murphy said.
Firefighters poured 18 million gallons of water on the charred, smoldering site between Friday night and Monday, the chief said.
At the height of the blaze 16 aerial ladders were towering over the blazing scene and flooding the flames with cascades of water. South Metro Fire and Aurora Fire sent reinforcements.
If you have information to share, call the fire department tip line at (720) 672-5101.
FIREFIGHTERS PREVENT LOUISVILLE REPRISE
Firefighters stopped a wildfire ignited by a spark in Louisville - scene of the December 2021 conflagration that destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.
The threatening blaze broke out Monday and "quickly spread across a field due to dry conditions and high winds," North Metro Fire said.
No injuries were reported.
[Photo: North Metro Fire]
ARREST YOUTH FOR FIRING GUN
Police arrested a youth Monday on charges of possessing and firing a gun in the vicinity of North Fountain and Noth Glendale avenues in Pueblo. A Shot Spotter device registered the sound of three shots. No one was hurt.
SHOCKING CRIME: COPS SEEK TASER WOMAN SUSPECT IN BOULDER
Police are on the lookout for a woman accused of shoplifting and confronting shop workers with a Taser in Boulder.
The Christmas season crime occurred in the 1800-block of 28th Street at about 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16. "The suspect is described as a Latina female with black hair styled in a bun, wearing a short black shirt, blue jeans, with a peach-colored backpack," Boulder police said. If you recognize her, call the Boulder police tipline at (303)441-1974 regarding Case No. 25-11962. [Photo: Boulder Police Department]
1 HURT IN LAKEWOOD FIRE STARTED BY PAN ON RED HOT STOVE
A person was hurt when an overnight blaze broke out at a house on Fenton Street in Lakewood. "A pan left on a hot stove was the cause of this fire, which sent the homeowner to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries," West Metro Fire said.
FBI SEEKS DENVER BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT
Do you recognize him? The FBI and police are hunting for this man - a suspect in a Denver robbery.
The heist occurred at 9:40 a.m. Monday at a US Bank branch at 730 Colorado Boulevard. No injuries were reported.
"The suspect deliberately demanded money and then fled east from the bank on foot," according to Metro Denver Crime Stoppers.
The back of his orange jacket was emblazoned with the words "TECH OPS." Police recovered the jacket.
If you have information, call Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7876.
[Photo: Metro Denver Crimes Stoppers]
RED FLAG FIRE WARNING FOR DENVER AREA
The National Weather Service says a Red Flag Warning is in effect until 5 p.m. today for Denver's western suburbs and the southern Front Range foothills. "Gusty winds and low relative humidity will lead to critical fire weather conditions," forecasters say.
FLAGLER AIR SHOW DISASTER SHOCKED AMERICA
On Sept. 15, 1951, an aircraft performing a stunt plowed into spectators at an air show in rural Flagler, Colorado, claiming 20 lives - including 13 children and the pilot of the doomed craft.
Many other spectators suffered severe injuries.
"News of the tragedy was flashed by phone to all surrounding towns and to Denver," The Rocky Mountain News said. "Ambulances and doctors rushed from as far east as Goodland, Kan., and as far west as Denver to aid the victims.
"The injured were carried by car and ambulance to the tiny hospital here," the News said. "Dr. John Straub and Dr. W. L. McBride and a staff of volunteer workers performed yeoman tasks in rendering first aid to the injured."
Victims were transferred to hospitals in Denver, Goodland and other communities.
Located in Kit Carson County, Flagler's population at the time was about 700. Attendance at the air show from the town and its surroundings was well above that.
The military sent "four SA-16 rescue planes from Lowry Field, loaded with doctors, first aid men, plasma and medicine, landed at the tiny site of the tragedy to join in rescue activities," the News said.
Time Magazine quoted Charlie Keller, a farmer attending the show with his wife, Kathy, teenage daughter Zenelda and 6-year-old twins Johnny and Josephine,
“I saw this plane coming. I hollered. ‘Mama, duck!’ I dived between two cars. There was an awful roar, and then this loud crash," Keller said.
"I got up. looked around. Mama wasn’t there. I couldn’t see the children either, A short time before the accident. Mama said to me. ‘Somebody could get killed.’ I remember I said, I guess somebody could get killed, Mama.’"
Keller's wife, daughter and son Johnny died.
Time Magazine noted: "Every family in town could count a member killed or hurt."
There was no grandstand. Families sat in or on cars.
Air show announcer Curtis Clarke was credited with preventing panic, asking male survivors to escort women and children from crash site and return to render aid, the News said.
[Photo: Private collection]
COPS SNAG METH IN WESTMINSTER
Police arrested a man and woman sought for a variety of crimes and seized almost 45 grams of methamphetamine in Westminster. The man was also wanted on charges of vehicular eluding and identity theft while the woman was wanted on charges of criminal impersonation and possession of drug paraphernalia, police announced Monday. The arrests occurred at a service station near 72nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard of New Year's Day. "Officers observed drugs and paraphernalia in plain view inside the vehicle," police said. [Photo: Westminster Police Department]
BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT BUSTED AFTER STANDOFF IN SHERIDAN
Timothy Reed, 54, a suspect in a pair of Denver area bank robberies, was arrested after a standoff at a home on South Canosa Court in Sheridan, police said Monday. He was apprehended Jan. 2, based on FBI intelligence.
[Photo: Sheridan Police Department]
Monday, January 5, 2026
CROSIER TRAILS RE-OPEN AFTER MOUNTAIN LION ATTACK
UPDATE
The U.S. Forest Service reports Garden Gate, Gravel Pit and Garden Gate trial heads at Crosier Mountain reopened Monday after last week's deadly mountain lion attack.
A woman died in the New Year's Day tragedy - the first such fatal casualty in Colorado since 1999, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Rangers killed two mountain lions in the immediate aftermath of that attack.
State officials said Monday: "CPW officers, federal agency staff and houndsmen with trained dogs searched thoroughly for more than 72 hours" for a third, however, "no fresh tracks or scents were detected."
In July, a mountain lion killed a family dog on a walk with its owners in Boulder. A mountain lion was also suspected in the disappearance of a family dog in Erie in October.
[Photo: National Wildlife Foundation]
WESTMINSTER MAN DIES IN WRECK
The Daily Camera reports a Westminster man was killed in a head-on crash near Superior. Another man was injured in Sunday's wreck at Colorado 128 and West 120th Avenue, the newspaper reports.
AS DAVID BOWIE SAID: 'LET'S DANCE'
Let's dance
Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
Let's dance
To the song they're playing on the radio
- David Bowie
Looks like aptly name "Pandemonium " - one of the Cheyenne Zoo's adorable meerkats - is ready to let loose. A meerkat is a highly social small mongoose. They hail from southern Africa and typically live in packs of up to 30 members. Breeding occurs year-round.
Their burrows are typically 16 feet in diameter with a dozen of more openings, according to Wikipedia.
[Photo: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo]
WINTER IN ROCKIES, SPRING IN DENVER AREA
While Denver enjoys another day of spring, forecasters issued a Winter Weather Advisory for up to inches of snow in the Park and Gore ranges - including Rabbit Ears Pass - until early Tuesday. Our photo shows conditions on Monday morning at the Eisenhower Tunnel. The National Weather Service sees lighter snowfall for the Front Range Mountains and Summit County and locally up to 8 inches in Rocky Mountain National Park and Indian Peaks.
The Denver area, meantime, is forecast to bask in sunshine and mild temperatures through Wednesday though snow is possible Thursday. [Photos: National Weather Service]
NWS Cheyenne
NWS Pueblo
WHODUNNIT? DEADLY DENVER SHOOTING OCCURRED AT MADURO CAPTURE CELEBRATION IN GANGLAND; MOTIVE UNKNOWN
UPDATE
Reports say the weekend shooting that killed one person and injured three others in Denver occurred at a celebration marking the U.S. military's capture of Venezuelan President Maduro.
Venezuelan gangsters have had a stranglehold on parts of the Denver area. The motive of Saturday night's party shooting isn't known. Police are sifting through clues.
The crime occurred at a parking lot in the vicinity of East Hampton Avenue and South Galena Street, police said. A boy, 16, died. Three men in their 20s were hurt.
TV images show a food truck with a Venezuelan flag was at the event. The area near the truck was cordoned off by police on Sunday.
One victim was transported to hospital by ambulance, two were taken by a private auto and the fatally wounded teen was driven to the area of Iliff Avenue and Havana Street and pronounced dead.
"The investigation is ongoing," police said Sunday.
PEDESTRIAN DIES IN AURORA
Reports say a pedestrian was fatally injured at East Colfax Avenue and Peoria Street in Aurora on Saturday night.
DENVER SHOOTING ON SHERIDAN
A person was injured Sunday in a shooting in the 800-block of North Sheridan Boulevard in Denver, police said.
WANNABE POSTAL CARRIER FORWARDED TO PRISON
Zachary Jones was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for breaking into post offices in Watkins, Sedalia and Dacono and making off with certified mail, postal carrier uniforms and other items.
The stolen property was recovered in Jone's hotel room and auto, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said Saturday.
The wannabe postman was also found in possession of a gun, a point-of-sale terminal, personnel files, mailbox keys and post office box applications, officials said. Jones had a prior criminal record and was prohibited from carrying the gun.
[Photo: USPIS]
Sunday, January 4, 2026
ODD NEWS: LITTLE GREEN MEN CLAIMS
London's Daily Star reports America's military retrieved about 10 crashed UFOs - including alien remains - and planned reverse-engineer the technology. Thes newspaper cites whistleblower claims. The British planned to do the same, the Star reports.
MAN, 77, ARRESTED AFTER STANDOFF
Police arrested David Martin, 77, after a standoff in Monte Vista, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said. He is accused of shooting a woman in the arm. The incident occurred Saturday on Second Avenue in the Rio Grande County community.
CREEPY CASE
Anthony Fisher, 28, was arrested Sunday on charges of false imprisonment and harassment of a teenage girl, the Weld County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies took Fisher into custody in the 4700-block of Grand Canyon Drive in the Hill N Park subdivision. [Photo: Weld County Sheriff's Office]
FIREFIGHTERS SAVE 5 PUPS FROM ADAMS COUNTY BLAZE
Adams County firefighters rescued five puppies from a mobile home fire Saturday night in the 6800-block of Ruth Way, officials said. [Photo: Adams County Fire Rescue]
WIND-DRIVEN BLAZE HITS LAKEWOOD; 1 HURT, PETS RESCUED
UPDATE
West Metro firefighters aided people and pets Sunday at a wind-driven blaze at The Pines Apartments in Lakewood. Flames swept apartments on the second and third floors and caused significant smoke and water damage throughout the building in the 12900-block of West Maple Place. Fifteen residents were displaced. One person was sent to hospital with "non-life threatening" injuries and firefighters assisted another from the building, West Metro said. Firefighters also rescued two dogs and located a cat - but one dog died. "The fire started on a second-floor balcony," officials said. "Fueled by windy conditions, the fire quickly spread to the third floor and into the attic space, extending into the interior of two apartments." [Photo: West Metro Fire Rescue]
SHOOTING RANGE BLAZE SCORCHES 200 ACRES OF PRAIRIE; AERIAL TANKER CALLED
Eastern Colorado firefighters - aided by farmers and an aerial tanker - stopped a 200-acre, wind-driven prairie fire Saturday at the Logan County Shooting Sports Complex.
No injuries were reported. No structures were damaged.
The Sterling Fire Department said: "Duty crews from Station 1 responded and the call was quickly upgraded to a general alarm and county wide mutual aid was requested."
"A Single Engine Air Tanker (SEAT) was also called in and made multiple drops on the head of the fire, helping to slow it down and allow crews to contain it," the fire department said.
Farmers, privately-owned water tenders and a county road grader assisted fire crews. Logan County is located in northeast Colorado along I-76.
[Photos: Sterling Fire Department]
ROCKSLIDE CLOSED I-70 WESTBOUND
UPDATE
A rockslide Sunday closed westbound I-70 near Glenwood Springs in western Colorado, the Garfield County Sheriff's Office said. The interstate reopened after several hours. No injuries reported. [Photo: Garfield County Sheriff's Office]
WAITS FOR COLFAX BUS, SEES SMOKE, CALLS 911
West Metro and Arvada firefighters extinguished a blaze at a vacant building at West Colfax Avenue Oak Street in Lakewood early Sunday. "A 911 caller, waiting at the nearby RTD bus stop, saw smoke coming from the back side of the building," officials said. No injuries reported.
RED FLAG WILDFIRE WARNINGS SUNDAY
Round up the usual suspects! Wind gusts, dry brush and timber and low humidity forced fresh Red Flag wildfire warnings for Sunday. Elevated risk could extend into Monday, the National Weather Service says.
1 DEAD, 3 HURT IN DENVER SHOOTING
UPDATE
A shooting killed one person and injured three others in Denver late Saturday, police said.
The crime occurred in the vicinity of South Galena Street and East Hampden Avenue.
One victim was transported to hospital by ambulance, two were taken by a private auto and the fatally wounded victim was driven to the area of Iliff Avenue and Havana Street and pronounced dead, police said.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
LEETSDALE INFERNO MIRRORS EMERSON STREET, AURORA BLAZES; ILLUSTRATES GRAVE BUILDING SITE RISKS
Friday night's inferno on Denver's Leetsdale Drive illustrates - once again - dangers lurking at construction sites, such the deadly 2018 Emerson Steet conflagration pictured above.
Exposed and stored lumber and other combustible construction materials, gases and fluids - with even a smattering of Rocky Mountain wind - are a formula for disaster.
Two workers died in Denver's Emerson Street blaze, which roasted 30 parked cars and blistered a dozen neighboring buildings on March 7, 2018. Six people were injured. The clean-up was costly and extensive.
Emerson Street was a three-alarm fire. Friday's Leetsdale blaze went to five alarms and required the assistance of South Metro and Aurora fire crews. Denver Water also provided help, ramping up fire hydrant pressure.
Denver, of course, is not unique. Neighboring Aurora was the scene of a pair of construction site infernos in December 2023.
A Dec. 16 blaze - bottom photo - at East Colfax Avenue and Peoria Street also went to five alarms - Aurora's worst blaze in terms of property loss, estimated at $150 million. A Dec. 14 building site fire at South Addison Court went to three alarms.
[Photos: Denver Fire Department, Aurora Fire Rescue]
Colfax and Peoria in Aurora in 2023
MONSTER FIRE DESTROYS 'CITY BLOCK' IN DENVER; BLAZE GOES TO 5 ALARMS, FIREFIGHTER INJURED, EVACUATIONS ORDERED
A monster five-alarm blaze erupted Friday night on Leetsdale Drive in Denver - illuminating the night sky and forcing evacuations.
The giant fire - one of the largest in years - ripped through an apartment building construction site. Images from the scene showed massive destruction. One firefighter was injured, officials said.
Police shut down traffic on the major thoroughfare at South Forest Street. Firefighters and emergency services from across the city sped to the scene while a police helicopter circled above. South Metro Fire Rescue sent assistance and the City of Glendale set up a temporary shelter.
Flames and intense heat held fire crews at bay as they struggled to play water streams on the burning building. The sound of burning and crashing lumber filled the air. Nearby residents on social media reported power outages in the area.
“This fire ran freely from one end of this building to the (other)," Robert Murphy, operations division chief for Denver Fire Department, told Denver 7. "It’s a complete city block and it is on fire.”
The incident recalls a huge blaze at an apartment complex under construction at East Colfax Avenue and Peoria Street in Aurora in December 2023 - one the largest in that city's history.
[Photos: Denver Fire Department, South Metro Fire Rescue, social media]
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