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.
Jefferson County deputies are searching for a 15-year-old boy already facing gun charges after he allegedly stole guns from a relative's safe in Pine Wednesday night.
One juvenile boy was ejected and killed when a speeding car crashed and rolled and a second juvenile was hospitalized early Thursday morning. Westminster police believe the driver had been...
Streets have been blocked off with yellow police tape near 42nd Avenue and Garfield Street for a Denver police investigation following a shooting in which the victim was hospitalized.
Soft southwesterly breezes and mostly clear skies will make for a pleasant spring day along the Front Range while thunder, hail and isolated heavy downpours are expected in the foothills...
A former fifth grade school teacher at Twombly Elementary School in Fort Lupton has pleaded guilty to distribution and possession of hundreds of Oxycodone pills.
A former University of Colorado student was doing the right thing after getting alcoholic drinks with friends at a Boulder bar when he called a taxi. But within minutes, an...
A U.S. Coast Guard veteran who gives a middle finger salute to the entire city of Buena Vista whenever he passes through town has sued the city claiming his civil...