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Aurora man gets 22 years in prison for fatal Greenwood Village shooting

An Aurora man was sentenced to 22 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in a teen's shooting death near Cherry Creek High School, according to court records.

handcuffs generic The number of people who died in Colorado鈥檚 jails more than doubled between 2011 and 2015, according to data compiled by The Denver Post.

Denver man gets life in prison for killing woman whose remains were found near Lyons

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This video still frame shows a former Littleton Public Schools paraprofessional hitting a severely autistic, non-verbal child on a school bus for special needs students. (Video still via Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC Attorneys at Law)

Littleton Public Schools bus aide who assaulted children sentenced to 4陆 years in prison

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Colorado man accused of killing wife, staging it as suicide

By Lauren Penington

March 3, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

Ronald Elton Lowry was indicted in February by an Arapahoe County grand jury on charges...

Victoria Hursh poses for a photo at Great Lawn Park in Denver, Colorado on Feb. 02, 2026. Hursh is suing a Denver-area optometrist for a severe date rape incident from 2021 after not being able to pursue justice in criminal court. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Woman sues Aurora eye doctor for sexual battery, emotional distress: 鈥楾his has affected my whole life鈥�

By Lauren Penington

February 25, 2026 at 4:47 p.m.

鈥淚 woke up the next day and my body was covered in bruises and blood,...

The gavel cracks on a foreclosure sale in the Public Trustees offices at the Wellington Webb building during a foreclosure auction Thursday morning. Andy Cross, The Denver Post

Man gets 20 years in prison for trying to run over women he believed were lesbians in Aurora

By Lauren Penington

January 29, 2026 at 9:34 a.m.

A man who tried to run over two women he believed were lesbians in 2023...

2 men arrested with 17,000 photos, videos of child sex abuse, Aurora police say

By Lauren Penington

January 29, 2026 at 7:29 p.m.

Orlando Archuleta and Dzhamshed Yusupov were arrested last week after detectives discovered more than 17,000...

Former Littleton Public Schools employee pleads guilty to abusing students on bus

By Lauren Penington

January 5, 2026 at 3:22 p.m.

Nearly two years after a Littleton Public Schools bus aide was caught abusing a nonverbal...

A Colorado Department of Corrections officer walks along the third level of cell house #8 at the Fremont Correctional Facility during a formal count at the prison in Canon City on Aug. 5, 2011. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Colorado prison backlogs for sex offender rehabilitation lead to missed parole dates, others getting out without treatment

By Seth Klamann

December 28, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

"What it抖阴ap intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until...

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