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.
State Parks and Wildlife officials have evacuated Connected Lakes park as Grand Junction firefighters battle a brush fire that broke out near the Redlands subdivision Thursday afternoon.
The National Weather Service in Boulder has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Denver, Aurora, Glendale, Littleton and Englewood, as well as a tornado watch for Denver, the Front Range...
A twin-engine airplane traveled off the runway at Centennial Airport and ended up in a grassy field on Wednesday, the sixth incident at the airport since February.
A 30-year-old man convicted of felony murder and other crimes after he and two accomplices blundered into an Aurora hotel room and killed a stranger while looking for a snitch...