Sheriff Lee Baca To Create Task Force To Address Wrongful Jailings

Aurora police detained 14 people early Tuesday morning following a reported home invasion that involved a stabbing and kidnapping at the soon-to-close Edge of Lowry apartments, authorities said. Officers responded to an armed home invasion at the apartment building in the 1200 block of Dallas Street just before 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Aurora Police Department. The 60-unit apartment complex, the subject of international press coverage after a video clip of heavily armed men inside one of its five buildings went viral, is set to close in the coming months as part of a deal reached earlier this month between Aurora officials and the apartments’ owners. Police on Tuesday said several suspects broke into an apartment in the complex early that morning and took the two people inside to another apartment, threatened them and tied them up.

DENVER — Even the beneficiaries of Jonathan Taylor’s goal line gaffe couldn’t understand why anyone coasting in for a touchdown would let go of the football before crossing the goal line. “I don’t get it, but I’m not going to try to,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said after Taylor’s 41-yard touchdown-turned-touchback allowed Denver to turn the blooper into a blowout. “I don’t know, man.

A 42-year-old man died Monday after falling from Boulder’s Second Flatiron, sheriff’s officials said. The man, who has not been publicly identified, was reported missing around 9 p.m. Monday after he failed to return from a hike on the Flatirons, according to a news release from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. Friends of the 42-year-old hiker told sheriff’s officials he was supposed to return home around dark.

A cold front moving into Colorado has brought with it a new wave of mountain snow, according to National Weather Service forecasters. The most snow is expected to fall in Colorado’s Park Range of the Rocky Mountains, according to NWS snow forecasts. As of Tuesday morning, NWS forecasters called for: Up to 17 inches of snow on Mount Zirkel, the highest summit in the Park Range, and Buffalo Pass; Up to 12 inches on other Park Range peaks; Up to 11 inches of snow on Rabbit Ears Pass, a U.

The new year will bring more than a dozen new laws to Colorado, from restrictions on texting while driving to car-seat age limits and new caps on medical malpractice lawsuits. Nineteen laws that passed in 2024 will go into full or partial effect on Jan. 1, one of the largest and last implementation dates from this year’s legislative session.

Chef Carlo Lamagna’s journey has been full of twists and turns. But Denver has been in his plans for about a decade. Last month, those plans came to fruition when he opened Magna Kainan, a modern Filipino restaurant at the base of Novel RiNo, a luxury residential highrise. Magna Kainan is a sister concept to his Portland-based restaurant, Magna Kusina, and is part of the Culinary Creative Group’s portfolio in Denver.