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 total of 522 flights had already been canceled at Denver International Airport more than four hours before a powerful blizzard is expected to strike.
Snow, winds and freezing temperatures slammed northeastern Colorado on Wednesday where blizzard conditions materialized on the Eastern Plains, but came up short in Denver.
One Pueblo police officer was shot in both legs and a suspect was shot and killed during a foot chase and shootout late Tuesday night near the Don Quixote Apartments.
One of three carjackers exchanged gunfire with Denver police during a chase early Wednesday morning and then shot himself after a crash near 16th and Quebec streets as authorities were...
Two juveniles were seriously injured in the shooting, which occurred around 12:30 p.m., Aurora police said Tuesday. A third also was hospitalized after being assaulted.
The blizzard warning was issued from between noon Wednesday to noon Thursday for an area from Fort Collins to Castle Rock on the west and from east of Limon to...
A man who mumbled "gonna blow things up" while torching a barn where six horses and a dog were killed has pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges including animal cruelty.
A 29-year-old Golden man has been arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide in a fatal Friday night pedestrian crash in Lower Downtown Denver, authorities say.
A suspected drunken driver was allegedly speeding down Colfax Avenue in Aurora early Monday morning when he slammed his vehicle into a man crossing the street and hurled him 90...