DAILY SKETCH

A box truck careened across Highway 85 early Wednesday  and plowed into a Toyota Matrix and Honda Accord in a deadly wreck  near La Salle in...

A teenager was arrested as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man on North Tower Road in Denver, police announced Wednesday. The murder st...

By Colorado Newsline Colorado’s regulatory framework to test marijuana for contamination and warn consumers about risks has significant gaps...

On June 29, 1965, Fort Collins Fire Chief Clifford Carpenter was killed battling an inferno at the State Dry Goods store - one of the larges...

With just seconds to spare, firefighters halted a garage fire from engulfing a home in Westminster. No injuries were reported in Tuesday...

By Colorado Newsline All four of Colorado’s Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives and one U.S. senator received letters wi...

  Thick fog forced a Fight of Life medical helicopter enroute to a Denver area hospital to divert to Georgetown, the Clear Creek County Sher...

Police arrested a suspect after an argument between two men led to gunfire in the parking lot of Rangeview High School in Aurora. No one was...

An electrical fire Tuesday forced the evacuation of  Ranch View Middle School in Douglas County, officials said. No one was hurt. Fire in...

Police discovered a homemade bomb after arresting Hawk Douglas, 35, on outstanding criminal warrants in Lakewood, authorities announced Tues...

Firefighters responded Monday night to 911 calls reporting a "smoking and sparking" parcel at a shipping facility in Douglas Count...

John  Routt - elected Colorado's first state governor in 1876 - was a champion of women's suffrage. He served as governor in the ear...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife reports tarantulas " are in the middle of their seasonal mating treks, where males will travel great distan...

On January 27, 1997, Susan and Vivian Garrett, Anthony Bunn, Erik Waite and Tad Wescott perished in an arson fire that ripped through the Ha...

By Colorado Newsline Bears are having a very bad year.  Across much of the United States, a warm winter and persistent drought have decimate...

Lower Valley Fire District firefighters extinguished an auto fire early Monday on I-70 near the Utah border. No injuries were reported. [Ph...

Aspen police and park rangers are advising hikers to avoid Difficult Campground due to a visiting moose cow and her calf. The pair are acco...

The Garfield County Sheriff's Office reports deputies responded to 508 service calls - including 45 involving bears - during the week en...

Police in Commerce City stopped two autos rocketing at 127 mph and 107 mph as part of a weekend crackdown of street racing. Officers across ...

The arson squad is investigating a fire in a boarded-up, motel-style building in Denver. Monday's blaze involved " multiple units,...

A regional task force arrested 18 people - including four youths - suspected of " organized and violent criminal activity throughout th...

By Colorado Newsline Hundreds of demonstrators rallied and marched near the Colorado Capitol on Saturday in the largest of dozens of planned...

Firefighters discovered suspected ordnance at a house fire in Loveland. The material was " secured and removed ," police said. No ...

A stabbing suspect was arrested after a standoff with police at an apartment complex in Thornton. The incident occurred Saturday night in th...

A two-alarm fire wrecked two homes in Aurora over the weekend. No one was injured during the blaze in the 2000-block of Espana Way on Saturd...

A community corrections resident ran from a transport vehicle after feigning illness along I-76 in Morgan County. Bryon Roth, 33, was in the...

Two Pueblo police officers wounded during an exchange of gunfire with an armed suspect were accidentally shot by other officers, an investig...

Van Lemaster, 88, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was charged with vehicular homicide, v ehicular assault and r eckless endangerment in a crash at the...

By Colorado Newsline Fueled by the rising cost of living and cuts to federal benefits, f ood assistance programs from around the Denver metr...

"O ld wiring and excessive use of electricity" caused a house fire in La Junta early Thursday, the fire department said. The blaz...

Police arrested a youth as a suspect in an arson fire at a Roman Catholic church in Pueblo. The Sept. 5 blaze damaged  Christ the King Paris...

A heroic off-duty Jefferson County deputy pulled a driver from a wrecked SUV moments before it erupted in flames. The SUV collided with a tr...

A Ford F-150 smashed into a state patrol car and a semi on I-70 east of Byers early Wednesday, killing a teenage passenger in the pickup tru...

Fire department divers searched Bowles Lake in Bow Mar after a car crashed into the water on Wednesday. There were no casualties. The "...

With the help of alert citizens, fugitive Luis Arebalo was tracked down and arrested in the weekend shooting of a Thornton police officer....

Police arrested  Cody Jamison Boyles, 38, as a suspect in the theft of campaign signs in Vail, officials said. The suspect was arrested Mond...

A Yamaha motorcycle slammed into a GMC truck turning left in Loveland killing the biker, a 65-year-old man from Wyoming. The accident occurr...

Fire and parental fright erupted at an apartment building in Aurora on Tuesday. "A second alarm was initially called due to reports of...

A bicycle rider who " failed to stop at a posted stop sign" was struck and killed by a Ford Explorer in Greeley on Monday night, p...

Using DNA evidence and  genetic genealogy,  authorities named a prime suspect in the murder of Peggy Beck, 16, who was strangled in her tent...

Shooting erupted as a campus police officer confronted a man armed with a gun Monday at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The gunma...

A semi-truck erupted in flames Monday on I-70 between Georgetown and Empire. Minor injuries were reported, according to Clear Creek Fire. Th...

A mother bear and her cubs visited the campus of Trinidad State College last week, "t aking naps, wrestling and living their best life ...

  Towering flames devoured a rural home Monday on Highway 82 in the Western Slope community of Carbondale. "The home was occupied when ...