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.
Bitter cold temperatures have turned some stretches of Denver's highways into ice and side roads into snow-packed, slippery surfaces for Thursday's commute.
The stepmother of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch released a detailed statement to FOX31 Tuesday night offering new details about the boy's disappearance and describing death threats against her family.
Fresh from a win in the New Hampshire primary, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will appear in Denver Sunday evening for a campaign rally at the Colorado Convention Center.
Denverites will likely be fighting stormy conditions during their commute home after work on Wednesday, with between 2 to 4 inches of new snow expected.
An 18th Judicial District grand jury indicted a federal prison employee for shooting at a suspected hit-and-run driver in the middle of stopped traffic on C-470 in 2019.
A federal appeals court rejected an appeal by a former prison guard and Denver women's prison officials seeking dismissal of a civil lawsuit brought by a former female prisoner claiming...
Four teens charged in connection with robbery and shooting death in Wheat Ridge bragged to friends and on social media, according to a Wheat Ridge Police Department arrest affidavit.