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Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado came under fire on Friday for mocking Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg, Newsweek reported. On Thursday, Hogg tweeted that Boebert and her colleague, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, pose a threat to other lawmakers’ safety because they insist on carrying guns on Capitol grounds. The Colorado Republican […]

Police in Aurora, Colorado, are coming under fire after a viral video showed officers detaining a Black family — including children as young as 6 — and forcing them to lie on the pavement as the kids screamed in terror, over what the department now says was a case of mistaken identity. The incident took […]

Suzanne Morphew, a mother-of-two from Colorado, has been missing since Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10. As the weeks continue to pass by and there is still no sign of her, all her family can do is cling to hope that she is alive and will come home safely, according to The Daily Mail. Morphew […]

Protesters in Denver tore down a Civil War statue in front of the Colorado State Capitol building early Thursday morning, KMGH-TV reported. At around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, protesters spray-painted and then toppled the statue honoring The Centennial State’s contribution to the Civil War. Erected in 1909, the statue depicted a generic cavalryman (not intended […]

A New York City police officer who was seen on video using what appeared to be a banned chokehold to restrain a Black man during an incident on Sunday afternoon was suspended without pay later that day, the Associated Press reported. Neither the officer nor the man involved in the incident has been publicly identified […]

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a police reform bill into law on Friday that would end qualified immunity for officers and put a ban on several controversial police tactics, including chokeholds, according to The Hill. The law comes after weeks of demonstrations in protest of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old African American […]

Ashley Zachman, the 36-year-old Santa Barbara, California, nurse who went missing on May 29, has luckily been found “safe and unharmed”, according to Santa Barbara police spokesperson Anthony Wagner. Zachman disappeared after her shift at Cottage Hospital, thus sparking a desperate search to find her, according to NBC News. While it was announced publicly on […]

Suzanne Morphew of Colorado has been missing since Mother’s Day — Sunday, May 10 — and now law enforcement has planned a widespread community canvass with the hopes of yielding new leads. The Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office announced this new plan on Wednesday, June 10. They are also continuing to work with the FBI and […]

Suzanne Morphew of Colorado remains missing, and now her husband, Barry Morphew, has reportedly filed a petition for her guardianship. Suzanne, a mother-of-two, was originally from Indiana and moved to Colorado with her husband in 2018. On June 1, Morphew filed for her guardianship in Hamilton County, Indiana, claiming that his wife is “incapacitated,” according […]

Suzanne Morphew of Colorado has been missing since Mother’s Day. While she resided in Colorado prior to her disappearance, her hometown is in Alexandria, Indiana. Members of her hometown are sharing their support for her and opening up about the kind of person they knew her to be, according to The Herald Bulletin. Morphew is […]

A Denver Post photographer says a police officer appeared to intentionally fire pepper balls at him while the photographer was covering protests in the city on Thursday night. Photographer Hyoung Chang was covering the protests that broke out in the city over the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody in Minneapolis, […]

Colorado mother Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared on Mother’s Day on May 10 during a bike ride, has now been missing for three weeks. Since her disappearance, law enforcement and FBI agents have been combing her family’s Maysville property looking for clues. They have now concluded their search of her home and have released the property […]

Suzanne Morphew of Colorado remains missing, and her husband Barry is reportedly struggling with not knowing what to do. Suzanne went missing on Mother’s Day on May 10 during a bike ride. Police were able to locate her bike, but there has been no sign of the 49-year-old mother of two, according to The Daily […]

Police continue to look for missing Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, this time turning their attention to her husband’s job site which is near Salida. Morphew, who is 49 years old, went missing on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10, while on a bike ride, according to Fox News. This past week, the FBI, the Colorado Bureau […]

Investigators have gotten one of their first significant breaks in the search for missing Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, 49, who went missing on Mother’s Day. According to an official press release from the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office, a “personal item” that investigators believe belonged to Morphew turned up in their search on Friday. Authorities have […]

The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, who in the past had been accused of pushing unfounded allegations of voter fraud against Democrats, reportedly ordered a local party official to release false election results in a primary for a state Senate race. As Salon reported, leaked audio released this week appeared to show U.S. Rep […]

A local woman in her 50s from Breckenridge, Colorado was trampled by a bull moose on Saturday after trying to guide the animal out of her yard. According to The Denver Post, the incident occurred in the evening, but the moose had been patrolling the area for hours beforehand. Allegedly, the animal was blocking people […]

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department shared a video on Twitter yesterday that showed an unidentified woman approaching a moose on the side of the road. She was captured on video attempting to pet the animal. According to the official tweet from the CPW, she was later cited for harassing a wild animal, reports ABC […]

Reality television star and entrepreneur Kristin Cavallari recently spent some time in snowy Aspen, Colorado. The blond bombshell thrilled her 3.8 million Instagram followers with a few snaps from her trip, including one where she showcased a chic mountain-ready ensemble. While Kristin shared a few shots in which she was bundled up in her snowboarding […]

The Dallas Cowboys have had an interesting offseason so far, to be sure. The team probably didn’t think that in the middle of discussions over who was going to be their quarterback next season, they’d have to be dealing with one of their all-time great players going after a college football coach on social media. […]

A Colorado police officer will not face any charges after being found drunk behind the wheel of his police cruiser last year. The local district attorney and the police department have admitted the incident was mishandled. As reported by CBS4 Denver, last March, Deputy Chief Paul O’Keefe discovered Nathan Meier passed out behind the wheel […]

Authorities have intensified the search for Gannon Stauch, an 11-year-old boy from Colorado Springs who went missing last week. According to ABC 11, Gannon was last seen on January 27 when he reportedly stepped out to visit a friend’s house. He has not been seen or heard from since. Gannon’s disappearance came to light after […]

A report by the CDC is revealing staggering new statistics regarding vaping, showing just how much of an epidemic this issue has become not only in the United States but all around the world. The data showed that in 2019 alone, 55 people died as a result of vaping. In addition, 2,500 became ill from […]

The city of Denver, Colorado is suing the vape giant Juul, accusing the company of marketing their products to teens. Juul is in some major legal trouble right now, and Denver is not the only city that has filed a lawsuit against them. In the lawsuit against Juul, the city alleges that the controversial vaping […]

In a tragic incident, a pregnant woman fatally shot her 17-month-old son before killing herself in Rocky Mountain National Park on Friday. According to The Coloradoan, the bodies of 24-year-old Tristen Watson, a resident of Colorado Springs, and her 17-month-old son, Christopher, were discovered by park rangers on the same day following a combined search […]

A number of unexplained drones are making communities in Nebraska and Colorado uneasy, reports The New York Times. The drones seem to come in swarms and only at night, leading one resident to label them as “creepy.” Deepening the mystery, no one in the communities seems to know who owns the drones or what they […]

A conservative Denver radio talk show host, fed up with the nonstop news of the impeachment of Donald Trump on Wednesday, was fired after he wished, on-the-air, for a “nice school shooting” to distract from the news, The Denver Post reports. KNUS-AM personality Chuck Bonniwell was doing his afternoon show on Wednesday when, after returning […]

A Colorado woman is getting revenge on so-called “porch pirates” — that is, thieves who make off with packages left on porches by delivery people — by stuffing bait boxes with garbage, Colorado Springs’ KKTV reports. It may not do much to deter porch piracy overall, but Christine Hyatt says that she’ll take whatever small […]

When Steve Greig, an accountant from Denver, Colorado, lost his beloved dog in an accident he was absolutely devastated. In an effort to do something kind in honor of his dog, Greig went to an animal shelter and adopted the oldest dog they had. He now has a passion for caring for senior dogs and […]

A Colorado gynecologist is accused in a lawsuit of having used his own sperm to father at least six children, and potentially dozens or even hundreds more, after promising couples that they would be given sperm from anonymous donors, CBS News reports. Dr. Paul Jones is 80-years-old and still has a license to practice medicine […]

A Colorado landlord’s rental property was blown to pieces by police officers trying to flush out a shoplifting suspect who had holed up there, and an appeals court ruled this week that the Greenwood Village police owe him nothing in compensation. As NPR News reports, back in June of 2015, a suspect stole two belts […]

While giving a speech at the Insight Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, President Donald Trump touched on the subject of border safety and specifically, all the places where his administration plans to build a border wall. According to The Hill, as he began rattling off states that would receive a wall, he proclaimed that […]

In the Colorado Rockies, a herd of elk, known as unit 45, has been tracked by biologists for years. In the past decade, their numbers have fallen dramatically, with the cause pointing to an increase in outdoor recreation activities in their territory, reported The Guardian. Biologists counted more than 1,000 elk in the mountains surrounding […]

Grammy-nominated singer Mike Posner, well-known for radio hits like “Cooler Than Me” and “I Took A Pill In Ibiza,” was airlifted to a Colorado hospital on Wednesday after suffering a nasty bite from a baby rattlesnake on a cross-country trek, according to Fox News. The bite was apparently so bad that he required an airlift […]

Mike Pence stirred some controversy when he held a fundraiser at a Colorado club owned by two openly gay men, and now the vice president has drawn even more after reportedly skipping out on a $24,000 security bill for the event. Pence appeared at a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association held at the Caribou […]

If you needed another reason to lock your car, police in Colorado are offering a one-word reminder: bears. The Daily Beast labeled this incident “Unlicensed Driver” as they shared a warning about bears breaking into a car in Boulder, Colorado and crashing it. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Department explains that a bear opened the driver’s […]

Police in a suburban Denver community are on the lookout for suspects after a youth baseball game descended into a violent brawl that resulted in a handful of minor injuries and at least one serious injury, Denver’s KDVR-TV reports. The brawl started over a dispute over a call made by a 13-year-old umpire. On Saturday, […]

A Colorado school teacher is accused of cutting eight inches of hair off of a special-needs student, and his parents say that the school is stonewalling efforts to have the teacher held accountable. As The Grand Junction Sentinel reports, Xander Scotland’s son, also named Xander, is on the autism spectrum and has special needs. As […]

Duane “Dog The Bounty Hunter” Chapman and his wife Beth will have to put off their anniversary celebrations for a while, thanks to bad weather in Colorado. Monday, May 20, would have been the couple’s 13th wedding anniversary. The couple married back on May 20, 2006, marking the fifth marriage for Duane and the first […]

It’s been less than 24 hours since a shooting at a Colorado Springs middle school claimed the life of one person and saw at least eight more injured. Here is what is known, so far, about the shooting. The Victims News outlets initially reported that two people had been killed in the shooting. However, that […]

A school shooting in Colorado has left two people dead and seven injured, and some reports indicate that shots were still being fired near the scene even as police arrived, Colorado Springs’ KKTV reports. At about 2:00 p.m. local time (4:00 p.m. Eastern Time), authorities reported that there were multiple injuries at the STEM (Science, […]

A Denver landlord who was caught on an audio recording saying she would not rent to Muslims has agreed to pay $675,000 to settle a case brought against her, Yahoo News is reporting. Katina Gatchis will pay the settlement to Rashad and Zuned Khan, two Indian Muslim men who were denied the chance to rent […]

Fox 13 News reports that Sol Pais, who was believed to be “infatuated” with the Columbine High School mass shooting, was found dead at a campground near the base of Mt. Evans in Colorado. Witnesses claim they saw a woman matching Pais’ description running naked through the woods — with a gun — earlier in […]

A Colorado police officer is under investigation after video surfaced of him drawing his weapon on a man who was picking up trash in front of his own house. The New York Times is reporting that officials at the Boulder Police Department have placed the officer on leave and are investigating the incident, which Chief […]

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper announced Monday that he is running for president in 2020, saying that the country is currently facing a “crisis,” CNN is reporting. Hickenlooper joins an increasingly crowded field of Democratic contenders challenging Donald Trump for the presidency in the next election cycle. Taking a page from the changing ways in […]

According to a necropsy report released by Colorado wildlife officials, the mountain lion that was killed by a runner after he was attacked was actually what they termed a “kitten,” meaning a juvenile animal only about a few months old, according to The Coloradoan. Trail runner Travis Kauffman was attacked by the animal while running […]

Lawmakers in Colorado, the state that was famously among the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use, are set to discuss a bill that would open a path for another substance to be legally sold by entrepreneurs – specifically lemonade from kids’ neighborhood stands, according to 9News. Senate Bill 103, “Legalizing Minors’ Businesses” has been […]

Denver, the first major American city to legalize recreational marijuana — when the entire state of Colorado legalized recreational cannabis in 2014, that is — may soon become the first major American city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic” mushrooms, Huffington Post is reporting. In May, Denver voters will head to the polls to cast a “yay” […]

The 2018 midterm elections brought sweeping changes to Congress, ushering a strong Democratic majority into the House of Representatives. The election also highlighted demographic changes that suggest the battleground states of the 2020 Presidential election may be much different than even those of the 2016 election, according to NBC News. Three strong trends emerged from […]

Elections returns in Colorado indicate that Jared Polis, the Democratic candidate in the race, has defeated his Republican opponent Walker Stapleton. Polis, a member of the House of Representatives who hails from Boulder, is openly gay, and his win tonight makes him the first openly gay governor in the history of the United States, according […]