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1. Foothills could see first snow of season Friday got off to a foggy start across the Front Range, and things could get even foggier in the Foothills, with snow expected to be falling around 7000 feet Friday night. Highs aren’t expected to creep much above 60 degree across the whole state, with a frost […]

DENVER — After reviewing thousands of court cases looking for possible errors in sentencing orders, the Colorado Department of Corrections announced Wednesday judges in only 267 cases have decided to amend sentencing orders, while about 1,200 were left alone. The DOC sent 1,514 potentially questionable cases to judges for review. Just 18 percent (267) were […]

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections has fired Parole Director Tim Hand, officials confirmed Thursday. Hand was placed on leave May 22. His office had come under increasing scrutiny after the murder of Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements, likely at the hands of parolee Evan Ebel. Ebel is believed to have cut off his […]

DENVER — The ongoing legal battle over the extradition request of Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi inmate imprisoned for keeping a maid as a sex slave, is, for now, in the hands of an Arapahoe County district court judge. But documents released in court last week and conversations with attorneys and law enforcement sources reveal the […]

BRIGHTON, Colo. — Two families connected in tragedy came together Saturday to help each other heal through the pain. It has been seven years since Bryan Seymour took his own life, and for the past four years, his family has held a benefit car show in his honor. But the Bryan Seymour Scholarship Fund Car […]

DENVER — The early results of an audit of the sentences of prisoners in Colorado has found potentially hundreds of errors. Corrections officials are alerting judges throughout the state to the errors. The reviews are happening after it was disclosed that the man accused of killing Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements and Commerce City […]

DENVER — Two months after a former Colorado inmate killed two men and lead police on a nationwide manhunt, a sheriffs office in Texas is releasing new images of an attack between the suspect and police. The video clip above is graphic.I On Wednesday, the Montague County Sheriffs Office released dashboard camera video that shows a 27-year-old deputy […]

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.  — Authorities are questioning two associates of the man suspected in the killing of the state prisons director, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said Thursday. The two men, whom the source declined to identify, are in addition to James Lohr, 47, and Thomas Guolee, 31, two men the […]

DENVER — A Saudi man being investigated for the murder of former Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements lost his latest bid for parole on Tuesday morning. Homaidan al-Turki, serving an eight-years-to-life term for keeping his housekeeper a virtual slave in Colorado and sexually assaulting her, now must wait another two years before his next appearance […]

The following is the full text of a media release by the 11th Judicial District (including Chaffee, Custer, Fremont and Park Counties) regarding a clerical mistake involving Evan Spencer Ebel.     The district court, in response to media inquiry, has reviewed the record in Fremont County case number 07CR105, People of the State of Colorado […]

DENVER — Evan Ebel, the main suspect in the murders of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, signed his name with a swastika in a letter he wrote in prison that was confiscated because it threatened guards, FOX31 Denver learned Wednesday. The letter was written to Shawna, a female pen […]

The Colorado Department of Corrections new Executive Director was announced Friday.