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.
All 51 of Colorado driver's license offices are unable to issue licenses Tuesday because of a systemwide computer glitch, Colorado Department of Revenue officials said.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke will make his first campaign appearance in Colorado Thursday when he holds a town hall meeting at a restaurant in Aurora to discuss gun violence.
Wheat Ridge police are investigating a gun battle in which two people were shot late Monday morning near Ames Street and 38th Avenue and then fled the scene to two...
State and local law enforcement officers "eradicated" 40 clandestine marijuana grow sites in Las Animas County this summer by seizing and destroying nearly 6,000 pot plants with a street value...
Authorities on Monday are mobilizing scores of firefighters, heavy equipment and several aircraft to battle the McNay fire burning about 10 miles west of Livermore and 30 miles northwest of...