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PHILADELPHIA — Broncos starting quarterback Brock Osweiler had one job Sunday — don’t turn the ball over. But an interception came before the first quarter ended. That set the tone for the entire game as the Philadelphia Eagles embarrassed the Broncos by putting up seven touchdowns in a 51-23 rout of the Broncos on Sunday. […]

DENVER — Benjamin Davis, founder of 211 Crew, a white supremacist prison gang, is dead, the Colorado Department of Corrections said Sunday. The death is being investigated as a suicide, officials said. Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements was killed by a member of the gang in 2013, the Texas Rangers found. The Rangers’ investigation found Evan Ebel killed […]

DENVER — The Texas Ranger report spells it out on the first page, saying evidence shows Colorado parolee Evan Ebel “murdered” Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery man Nathan Leon.  It concludes Clements’ murder was “ordered by the hierarchy of the 211 prison gang.” All the evidence in the report […]

DENVER — The brazenness and brutality of the crime stunned Colorado in March 2013 when a state prison parolee, Evan Ebel, was suspected of ambushing and killing Nathan Leon, a Denver pizza deliveryman. Ebel is then believed to have used Leon’s uniform to trick Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements into opening the door of his Monument […]

DENVER — There is a growing call for the government to release a secret, 28-page report on possible Saudi Arabian involvement in the 9/11 attacks. It discusses people suspected of supporting the hijackers while they were in the United States.  The FOX31 Denver Problem Solvers recently obtained declassified documents indicating one of the possible helpers […]

NEW YORK — Could the destruction of Tom Brady’s cellphone turn the tide in the Deflategate case back in the NFL’s favor? Brady’s attorney was grilled by judges Thursday in the NFL’s appeal to reinstate a four-game suspension on the New England Patriots’ superstar quarterback. A large part of the focus was on that phone, […]

DENVER — Colorado state lawmakers are demanding answers about allegations concerning misreported numbers by Colorado Department of Corrections leaders. A DOC whistleblower’s emails in late December and early January sparked the controversy and lawmakers who serve on the state’s Joint Budget Committee began questioning DOC leaders. FOX31 Denver Investigative Reporter Tak Landrock obtained those emails […]

DENVER — John Hickenlooper took the oath of office for the second time Tuesday and laid out his plan for another term as Colorado’s governor. He thanked voters for their support after a tough election last November. In his speech, Hickenlooper recounted some of the struggles over his first term including wildfires, the Aurora theater […]

DENVER — Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob Beauprez continues to stick to the issue of public safety in the closing days of his campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. He’ll kick off a six-day tour across Colorado with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and several local law enforcement officers at a press conference Thursday afternoon […]

1. New York City doctor diagnosed with Ebola A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, authorities said late Thursday. 2. Beauprez trims Tom Clements ad after widow accuses him of using murder for ‘political gain’ […]

DENVER — One day after GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez released a TV ad citing last year’s murder of former Colorado Dept. of Corrections Chief Tom Clements’ as an example of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s failure to keep the state safe, Clements’ widow, Lisa, asked Beauprez to stop. “Mr. Beauprez, it is with great sadness and […]

DENVER — When GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez accused Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Dept. of Corrections of releasing dangerous inmates and making women into widows in a debate last month, the Democratic candidate took serious umbrage, angry that his challenger would politicize last year’s murder of his Corrections chief and friend Tom Clements by a recently […]