James Holmes, who was accused of fatally shooting 12 people and injuring 70 others at a theater in Aurora, Colorado three years ago, has been found guilty of all 165 charges, including 24 counts of murder the first degree.
On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that businesses have the right to terminate employees for using marijuana, even if they are off-duty at the time, upholding two lower court decisions, The Wall Street Journal reports.
James Holmes was mentally ill but legally sane when he shot 12 people to death during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Co., three years ago, according to a psychiatrist who spent 22 hours interviewing him.
Brad Viner is the only police officer in the town of Campo, Colorado. The 400 traffic tickets he wrote last year accounted for 93 percent of the 107-person town’s revenue. “Basically, the police department pays for the town,” he told the Grand Junction Free Press, seemingly without irony.
An absolutely horrific crime took place yesterday afternoon in Colorado: A seven-months pregnant woman responding to a Craigslist post for baby's clothing at a Longmont house was attacked and stabbed in her stomach, her fetus removed, allegedly by the woman who'd place the ad. The woman survived, but her baby did not.
A roaring fire was set off by a house explosion in Aravada, Colo. early this morning. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found the message "MY WIFE IS A CHEATER" spray painted on the side of the house.
A roaring fire was set off by a house explosion in Aravada, Colo. early this morning. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found the message "MY WIFE IS A CHEATER" spray painted on the side of the house.
On Tuesday, a lucky convenience store worker in Wheat Ridge, Colo., was spared a stickup when the guy who was planning to clean him out recognized his face. "(Expletive)," the would-be robber allegedly said (What expletive?). "I was going to rob this place, but I know you."
On top of everything else, a bomb blew up outside the office of the Colorado Springs, Colorado NAACP chapter yesterday.
A Colorado man faces charges of felony menacing after police say he pointed a banana at officers, causing them to believe they were in "imminent danger" from "a deadly weapon," the NY Daily News reports.
Sandy Nguyen was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail, five years probation, and 125 hours of community service for admitting to having collected tens of thousands of dollars after convincing friends, family, and her own son that he was dying of leukemia. Nguyen would apparently shave her son Jaiden's head every day…
Children's Hospital Colorado reports that, as of Friday, 11 children in Colorado have been hospitalized with partial paralysis.
A Colorado taco truck — arguably the greatest taco truck in Colorado or anywhere else — has been driven out of business by people who disapproved of its business model. That model: selling methamphetamine in addition to tacos, a move which presumably delighted its customers, but seems to have really displeased the…
Over the weekend, hundreds of Denver-area veterans received a total of $60,000 worth of free marijuana and marijuana-infused products at a giveaway hosted a group called Operation Grow4Vets, whose mission, according to their website, is to offer vets an alternative method for managing their PTSD and other ailments.
When Rene Lima-Marin was 20 years old, he committed two gunpoint robberies that got him sentenced to 98 years in prison. In 2008, he was released on parole because of a clerical mistake, and for the next six years, he lived as a free man with his wife and children. Now, he's being sent back to jail.
A Colorado woman crashed her truck while texting and driving, sending part of a metal guardrail through her thigh and buttocks and into the back of her seat.
Rocky Mountain National Park's public information officer Kyle Patterson reports that lightning strikes at the park have killed two people in two days, injuring several more.
Adams County District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree ruled that Colorado's ban on gay marriage—voted on and approved in 2006—unconstitutional Wednesday. The judge issued a stay on his ruling pending appeals. He also ruled that same-sex marriages performed outside of the state should be recognized.
President Obama is visiting Colorado today, where recreational pot is legal. At a Denver bar, a nice guy asked if he "wanted to hit this," and Obama just laughed. Times have changed.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is suing Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall, who has been issuing same-sex marriage licenses while same-sex marriage is still technically banned in the state. Hall has argued that the ruling by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals last month that struck down Utah's ban on gay…
