Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.
Arvada police officers shot and killed a man during a domestic violence investigation early Friday morning after the suspect killed a woman inside an apartment, a police spokesman said.
Law enforcement officers returned Thursday to southern Douglas County to resume their search for Gannon Stauch, an 11-year-old Colorado Springs boy who has been missing for more than three weeks
A storm system moving over Denver could bring light snow and freezing drizzle Wednesday morning and moderate snow showers in the afternoon and evening.
Two Florida men convicted of poaching after killing at least three mule deer and six pronghorn in Elbert and Lincoln counties have been banned from hunting in Colorado.
Boulder County SWAT officers have discontinued their search of a pumpkin farm near U.S. 287just outside of Lafayette after failing to find two armed, juvenile suspects — and have now...