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.
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General will audit the FBI background check system after an 18-year-old Florida woman infatuated with Columbine was able to buy a shotgun...
Mild temperatures and gusty winds are expected in the Denver metro area and the Eastern Plains Thursday while another blanket of snow is forecast for the mountains.
Jefferson County sheriff's deputies arrested a 39-year-old man early Thursday morning after he allegedly crashed a minivan into a bank and a gas station convenience store in Littleton.
The backlog for appointments for Global Entry program card in Denver stretches for months. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection program is meant to speed trips through customs for U.S....
A 23-year-old man who stabbed his girlfriend to death in their Thornton apartment, loaded her body into a car trunk and drove to Wyoming has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Adams County deputies arrested two men after they rammed a pickup truck into an Adams County Sheriff's patrol car and led authorities on an early morning Wednesday chase that traversed...