Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
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Police deny sitting on evidence as Netflix doc brings renewed attention to JonBenet Ramsey's killingPolice in Boulder are refuting assertions that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of JonBenet Ramsey that they are not pursuing. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's home the day after Christmas in 1996.
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Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animals rights group is trying to get them released from what they say is essentially the equivalent of a prison.
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A man accused of repeatedly threatening to kill the top elections officials in Colorado and Arizona as well as judges and federal law enforcement agents has pleaded guilty to one count of making interstate threats.
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State regulators have ordered a former Colorado gold mine where a tour guide was killed and a group of tourists was trapped for hours after an elevator accident to remain closed while its operations are reviewed. The move was announced Thursday.
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A mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 has been found guilty of murder and faces life in prison. Jurors reached their verdict Monday in the trial of Ahmad Alissa.
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A Colorado man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing five members of an extended Senegalese family in a house fire.
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The person who killed five people and wounded over a dozen others during a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs is set to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday. Prosecutors are expected to show during the hearing that Anderson Lee Aldrich was spreading anti-gay slurs online in the weeks before the 2022 attack. Aldrich is already serving a life sentence in prison after pleading guilty to state charges last year and pleading no contest to hate crimes in that case. In the federal case, prosecutors have focused on proving the attack at Club Q was premeditated and fueled by bias against LGBTQ+ people.
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A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement.
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One person is dead and another has been hospitalized after a vehicle and a tanker truck crashed on Colorado's main east-west highway. The crash Thursday on Interstate 70 near Morrison created a fireball and sent up a huge plume of black smoke. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says a person in a vehicle died and the truck driver has been hospitalized.
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A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year.