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.
Aurora police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man found in an apartment in the Saddle Rock neighborhood in southeast Aurora Sunday night.
Easter worship in Denver this year will break long-standing traditions as the faithful sit on couches at home watching virtual sermons rather than gather for sunrise services.
Virtual Easter egg hunts may not be as exciting as squealing kids racing to snatch colorfully decorated prizes off the ground, but they'll do in a pinch.