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.
John Castillo stared through teary eyes across a Douglas County courtroom Wednesday at the teens suspected of killing his son when gunfire erupted inside of STEM School Highlands Ranch the...
Three Colorado companies and their owners agreed to pay $2.6 million to the U.S. to resolve allegations they sought and received reimbursements through a federal renewable energy program to pay...
Two students attending the STEM School Highlands Ranch brought at least one handgun into the school Tuesday afternoon and turned the weapon on their classmates, killing one 18-year-old male and...
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has issued an "endangered missing" alert for a 12-year-old Pueblo girl who walked to school Monday morning but never arrived for class and hasn't been...
The National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for the Denver metro area Tuesday morning. As the day progresses the weather conditions will only get more dramatic.
Forecasters have issued a severe thunderstorm watch for southeast Colorado, warning that some thunderstorms could include a "couple" tornadoes, lime-size hail and powerful winds.
A bobcat survived getting tangled up in a soccer goal net in a Colorado Springs neighborhood early Sunday morning by using its claws to rip its way out of the...
Two sex offenders with gang ties including one deemed a violent sex offender escaped from the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center early Monday morning by breaking a window and using...