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 family of an 18-year-old Firestone woman severely burned in a gas station explosion in Cambodia is raising $250,000 to fly her back to a Colorado hospital for skin grafts...
There's a good chance that rain showers late Tuesday afternoon will take some of the sizzle out of a heat wave that already triggered a temperature record in Denver this...
A Commerce City man has been arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide and hit-and-run after he struck and killed a motorcyclist with his car in Douglas County and then walked...