Aurora council returns to full public comment allowance, hears demands for police reform
Residents of Aurora used a full hour of the reinstated public comment period during Monday night’s meeting, taking advantage of the restored time to talk about a need for police reform and for stronger oversight of tobacco products ending up in the hands of kids. Residents also talked about...
Aurora teen arrested in connection to Montview Park shooting
The Aurora Police Department arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection to a fatal shooting in November. The department arrested the male — who will not be identified due to being a minor — on Monday on suspicion of first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a handgun by a juvenile, according to a news release from...
New Aurora City Council to address homelessness grants, retail growth
AURORA | Aurora City Council meetings are back in full swing with four new city council members, and Monday’s study session will already have them hitting the ground running. The agenda for the study session on Monday includes appropriating grant funding to homelessness-based organizations in Aurora, the Aurora Snow...
Jeffco Public Schools workers to find about layoffs this week
Jeffco Public Schools employees received a voicemail from Superintendent Tracy Dorland Monday morning warning them of potential job cuts in the next year. “My holiday message this year is a more somber and serious one,” Dorland said in a voicemail obtained by The Denver Gazette. “Some of our colleagues in central...
Affidavit: 83-year-old woman was strangled to death in Lakewood burglary
A man recently released on parole has been arrested after DNA evidence tied him to the brutal killing of an 83-year-old Lakewood woman whose home was ransacked and set on fire earlier this month.
Medical staff told woman to ‘drink water’ while she was having fatal allergic reaction...
The family of a Colorado woman who died while in jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming that medical staff at the jail where she was held ignored a fatal allergic reaction. Ashley Raisbeck, 27, was serving a brief jail sentence after taking a plea agreement in December 2023...
Denver Police Seek Help on Social Media to Locate Suspect Adolph Eduardo Funes-Paniagua for...
The Denver Police Department has turned to social media in its latest effort to capture a man wanted for aggravated robbery. In a post that marks their "Mug Shot Monday," authorities are seeking the public's assistance in locating Adolph Eduardo Funes-Paniagua. The clear and straightforward appeal on their official...
Denver’s homeless facing freezing weather quandary
The Denver City Council approved Monday two sites for cold weather shelters in the city, but initially planned to have another, much larger wintry weather shelter in the ballroom of one of its homeless hotels.
Denver man sentenced to life in prison for South Platte River Trail homicides
A Denver man will spend his life in prison after killing two people on the South Platte River Trail. A Denver District judge sentenced Tanner Fielder to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday in connection to the 2023 deaths of 43-year-old Jeremy Hutcheson and 31-year-old Lluvia Robles-Banuelos,...
Married Denver deputies arrested, accused of assaulting man in wheelchair
Jason and Carla Gentempo have been charged with third-degree assault of an at-risk adult, a class 6 felony. The alleged victim said the two knocked him out of his wheelchair and stomped on his phone outside his apartment.

















