DAILY SKETCH

A Thornton firefighter rescued a turtle " facing certain doom" in traffic, officials said, earning the turtle's accolades as i...

The Associated Press reports the General Services Administration, a key federal agency, is calling back hundreds of civil servants after Elo...

Berani, the Denver Zoo's 32-year-old Sumatran orangutan, passed away this week. His health had been declining. He suffered kidney disea...

Naturalists at nudist camp Olive Dell Ranch are suing the new owners, alleging they are being forced to wear clothes and face eviction. The ...

Tuesday was "awash" - but the sun is forecast to break through the clouds today over the Denver area. 

Rhinos " Rudy" and " Tensing" reside at the Denver Zoo. [Photo: Denver Zoo]

The Denver Post reports t he city of Lamar, along U.S. Route 50 in southeast Colorado, is pitching itself as a site for the next Buc-ee’s me...

UPDATE A motorist was shot and killed Tuesday by another motorist who fled the scene - and police located a suspect about two hours later. T...

Police are searching for a missing Colorado Springs girl with "mental health concerns." They advise the pubic to approach the yout...

" Skies will become mostly sunny by midday," the National Weather Service says. "Temperatures will be warmer as well."

UPDATE Police are searching for two dangerous teen escapees from the Spring Creek Youth Services Center in Colorado Springs. Dameron Carba...

Responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle, Westminster police arrested an alleged auto thief Monday after a tussle at a service station...

An unattended auto rolled into the emergency room entrance at Rose Hospital, damaging the doors, according to a Daily Sketch reader who supp...

Police said Tuesday they identified a suspect in a series of church burglaries in Lakewood.

The Colorado State Patrol is searching for a hit-and-run driver who dragged a downed motorcyclist a half mile or more, officials said Tuesda...

UPDATE Missing Jasmin Zapata, 16, of Boulder has been located and is safe following an overnight odyssey, officials said Tuesday. Boulde...

An illuminated flying wedge circling a Los Angeles neighborhood could hold a key to Colorado's mystery drones. "It stayed in the sa...

  UPDATE A pair of big rig wrecks tied up major Denver area highways in less than 24 hours. A truck crashed off  I-270 and flipped onto 56th...

FLASH UPDATE -  Jasmin Zapata has been located and is safe, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation reports. A suspect has been arrested, Bould...

Welcome to autumn in the Rockies. The National Weather Service is forecasting up to a foot or more of snow across the higher mountains of th...

The Colorado State Patrol is seeking clues in a hit-and-run accident that injured a pedestrian in western Colorado. The crime occurred on 64...

No such thing as rush hour for this critter. Members of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office helped a "very grumpy" 30-pound or...

UPDATE Lightning killed elk hunters  Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko in southern Colorado, a coroner ruled Monday. Their bodies were found Thur...

UPDATE Israelis accused TV bad boy  Tucker Carlson of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories about the assassination of political pundit ...

Autumn is here and the National Weather Service forecasts m ountain snow through Tuesday. The Larimer County Sheriff's Office says Trail...

In its third quarter economic forecast, Colorado's  Office of State Planning and Budget reported Trump tariffs are chipping away at fami...

A tiger killed a famed animal handler Saturday at the Growler Pines Tiger Preserve. Ryan Easley's " courage, compassion and unwaver...

UPDATE A heavily armed SWAT unit arrested a suspect in a dangerous standoff Monday that  dragged on for hours in Commerce City. Police respo...

  Police arrested a drunken man who attempted to steal truck from a rental lot in Commerce City - and then nodded off.  He fished a set of k...

UPDATE A harrowing  hazmat incident closed the 84th Avenue on-ramp to southbound I-25 early Monday. The Thornton Fire Department said 50 t...

A person was stabbed in the  4700-block of Altura Street in Denver, police said early Monday.

Austin Marie Meissner, 31, went missing Sept. 11 from the 700-block of Eighth Street in Colorado Springs, the Colorado Bureau of Identificat...

Stormy weather caused a 13-percent drop in attendance at this year's Colorado State Fair, the Pueblo Chieftain reported. Primary attenda...

In Brighton, police Friday seized 254 Fentanyl pills, a gun, drug paraphernalia and other narcotics after stopping an auto with a broken tai...

This young man talked shop with a Douglas County deputy sheriff at a recent community event. " In a world full of big moments, it’s oft...

Arvada firefighters extinguished a fire in a laundry room Sunday in the  4500-block of Tabor Street, officials said.

Your editor took a spill today, sober. Then this message crossed his desk. Be careful out there.

The Ku Klux Klan gained national prominence during a 1920s rebirth and Denver merchants sought its business. McCauley's Toggerey, a clot...

When America's first tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News, debuted critics accused it of being lowbrow - and catering to the ...

The Associated Press reports the Pentagon is cracking down on press freedom,  requiring journalists at the Defense Department to sign a pled...

Police arrested a man after a woman's body was found in a box at the  Perch Apartments at 7791 West 52nd Avenue in Arvada, reports say.

A climber fell and suffered a fatal injury Saturday in Idaho Springs, official said.

FLASH UPDATE - Wicasa Wanbli Black Elk has been located, CBI says. A disabled man, Wicasa Wanbli Black Elk, 48, is missing and was last ...

Missing  Jayla Gallegos, 15, was last seen Saturday night in the 1000-block of Valkenburg Drive in Colorado Springs, the Colorado Bureau of ...

South Metro firefighters battled a kabob shop fire early Saturday in a strip mall at 2020 South Parker Road in Arapahoe County. " There...

A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run accident crash in the vicinity of West 17th Avenue and North Sheridan Boulevard in Denver, police s...

Dametz Atterberry and McNear Ihm Cindy Atterberry, 25, and Joe McNear, 30, vanished from Pike National Forest in Douglas County on June 27, ...

Investigators are puzzled about the deaths of two elk hunters missing for a week in southern Colorado. There are no signs of trauma, a coron...

Like an angler on the high seas, a state trooper skillfully netted a red Cadillac SRX with no license plates running at more than 100 mph on...