Colorado

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said that the worker who was responsible for a voting security breach that allowed passwords to be posted online is gone and that the incident shouldn’t shake residents’ confidence in the election. Speaking to Colorado Public Radio on Wednesday, Griswold said that the employee, a “civil servant,” now “no […]

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office mistakenly posted a spreadsheet to its website that contained partial passwords to some parts of the state’s voting systems, it has confirmed. In an Oct. 29 statement, the office said the spreadsheet shared on the department’s website “improperly included a hidden tab including partial passwords to certain components […]

DENVER—Colorado funeral home owners accused of cheating customers and misspending nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds, all while allegedly storing 190 decaying bodies in a building and sending grieving families fake ashes, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal fraud charges centered around defrauding clients. Jon and Carie Hallford each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy […]

Former President Donald Trump visited Aurora, Colorado, to drive his message against rising migrant crime and illegal immigration. Trump’s trip on Friday comes after the town made national headlines for a viral video that showed armed men taking control of an apartment complex. Trump maintained that “barbaric thugs” who belong to a Venezuelan gang have […]

A Colorado man hit the $3 million jackpot matching all six numbers in the Colorado Lotto+ Jackpot this fall, lottery officials announced Thursday. Jerold C. of Littleton, Colorado, chose to keep a lump sum cash prize of $1,549,606 after he won the $3,099,214 jackpot in the Oct. 5 drawing. His winning numbers were 9, 16, […]

LAKE CITY, Colo.—A black bear with three cubs attacked a man in his Colorado home after they crashed in through a sliding glass door and he was unable to get them to leave. State wildlife managers killed all four bears after the attack Thursday night in Lake City, a southwestern Colorado town of 400 people. […]

NUCLA, Colo.—Wildfire investigators looking for the cause of blaze in western Colorado last month discovered the partially burned remains of a dog—leading to the conclusion that a man’s attempted cremation of his pet sparked a fire that damaged private property including a cabin. Law enforcement arrested the man earlier this month and he is now […]

DENVER—Lawyers are set to deliver closing arguments Friday in the trial of a mentally ill man who fatally shot 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021. Ahmad Alissa, who has schizophrenia, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the attack at the store in the college town of Boulder. His attorneys acknowledge […]

BOULDER, Colo.—A pharmacist who survived a 2021 mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket said Thursday during the gunman’s trial that she heard him say, “This is fun” at least three times during the shooting. The chilling detail had not been revealed before. Sarah Chen said she heard the comments while hiding with her coworkers and […]

DENVER—Colorado state regulators have ruled that a district attorney who brought criminal charges that were ultimately dismissed against a man accused of killing his missing wife should no longer be allowed to work as a lawyer, finding that her management of the high-profile case resulted in the prosecution “running aground.” The panel issued a 2–1 […]

LOVELAND, Colo.—A Colorado man was charged with arson after an investigation into a wildfire this summer that destroyed 29 homes and caused more than $30 million in property damage, authorities said Wednesday. Jason Alexander Hobby, 49, was arrested Tuesday, Larimer County Sheriff John Feyen said. He appeared in court Wednesday on a first-degree arson charge […]

DENVER—A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a barrage of gunfire inside and outside the store in 2021 as the shooter targeted and pursued people who were […]

Mike Coffman, the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, has spoken out after video footage was published online allegedly showing Venezuelan gangs taking control of various apartment complexes across the city. Coffman told Fox News affiliate KDVR in an interview on Aug. 29 that approximately three apartment buildings in the Denver suburb have fallen victim to the […]

BOULDER, Colo.—Two freight trains collided and derailed in Boulder, Colorado, on Thursday night, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring two crew members, according to police. The Boulder Police Department said on the social platform X that the crash happened north of Boulder Community Hospital. Area roads were closed for several hours while officials conducted […]

DENVER—Four men were fatally shot and a woman was hospitalized with gunshot wounds during a spate of weekend violence in the Denver suburb of Commerce City. A person of interest in one of the cases was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, police said Sunday. Also in the Denver area over the weekend, a […]

DENVER—The Colorado funeral home owners who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 million to the victim’s relatives in a civil case, the attorney announced Monday. The judgment is unlikely to be paid out since the owners, Jon and Carie Hallford, have been […]

Firefighters are working to contain wildfires raging across Colorado’s Front Range and Northern California. The Alexander Mountain Fire, burning near Loveland in northern Colorado since Monday, has grown to 7,648 acres. In northern California, the Park Fire has burned 391,200 acres and is 18 percent contained as of Thursday morning.