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.
A train derailment has been re-railed at the Lincoln Station, however there may be delayed light rail departure times by up to 45 minutes on the E, F and R...
A late spring storm caused branches to bend to the breaking point, covered roads with ice and slush, generated numerous traffic spin offs and crashes and piled up to six...
A late-spring snowstorm that could drop up to 18 inches of snow in the Colorado Rockies, is playing havoc along mountain roads, causing numerous vehicle crashes and triggering a major...
Adams County sheriff's deputies are searching for two men accused of beating one person and shooting a second person in the stomach during a robbery outside the Valli-Hi Motel.
The Denver coroner's office has determined that the death of a 25-year-old woman last Wednesday was a homicide and that the cause of death was gunshot wounds.
A Colorado jury has awarded $3 million to a 66-year-old man who became permanently paralyzed after medical staff at Pueblo’s Parkview Medical Center failed to recognize a spinal injury when...
Snow began falling at Denver International Airport early Monday afternoon, hours earlier than forecasters had predicted, forcing meteorologists to increase their projections for snowfall in the Mile High City.
A Douglas County judge has sentenced a 20-year-old man to eight years in prison after the marijuana-impaired driver caused a four-car crash that killed a 24-year-old woman.