Aurora CO

Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash involving a motorcyclist in the evening on Saturday in Aurora.

A man is in jail Sunday morning after Aurora police pursued a stolen vehicle and performed a PIT maneuver that caused the vehicle to crash into a City of Aurora sign.

Denver residents were alerted to yet another incident of gun violence late last night. The Denver Police Department reported a shooting on their social media platforms, bringing the issue of public safety into sharp focus once again. The shooting occurred in the area of E. 45th Ave. and N. Clayton St., a neighborhood...

Police in Parker are searching for answers after two neglected dogs were abandoned on the side of the road.

"It was like a defeat." Distraught couple shares harrowing experience after mountain lion attacks dog: 'There was nothing I could do' first appeared on The Cool Down .

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Authorities in the southern Denver metro area are looking for a man they suspect broke into the corporate offices of the Safeway Albertsons grocery chain Saturday morning and caused water to flood parts of the building.

A Denver hairstylist who was missing for months before her body was found died of an unknown cause, an autopsy reads, but the document listed out a few possibilities as the investigation continues.