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MONUMENT, Colo. — The Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tom Clements, was shot in the chest in his Monument home Tuesday night and now authorities are looking for a car that was spotted near the scene. Clements was shot when he answered the door at his home on Colonial Park Drive in […]

DENVER — Investigators looking into the shooting death of the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections will look at the possibility that Tom Clements’ murder may be tied to the recent decision not to grant a transfer of a Saudi man in a Colorado prison. Homaidan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual […]

DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed three Democratic gun control proposals into law Wednesday morning, including the controversial ban on high-capacity magazines that has outraged gun owners threatening a recall effort against the governor and ballot measures to reverse the ban. During a press conference that followed the bill signing, Hickenlooper said that his office […]

DENVER — Wednesday marked another historic and emotional day at the Colorado Capitol, where Gov. John Hickenlooper and his cabinet reacted to the murder of Dept. of Corrections chief Tom Clements before signing three landmark gun control bills alongside victims’ families and then taking questions from reporters. This reporter’s cell phone battery was dead by […]

In the late 1800s, Australian forecaster Clement Wragge first started naming hurricanes after women and politicians with whom he disagreed. Considering there are more than a few Coloradans who find blizzards disagreeable, the Weather Channel recently decided the frosty weather patterns are worthy of names, as well. The network announced Tuesday that it will begin […]

LITTLETON, Colo. – Tom Mauser has been wearing his son, Daniel’s sneakers ever since the Columbine High School mass shooting on April 20, 1999, when Daniel and 13 others were killed. “These are the shoes that Daniel was wearing on April 20, 1999,” Tom said Wednesday during an interview with FOX31 Denver at the Columbine […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Dept. of Corrections plans to close a high security section of the State Penitentiary due in large part to a falling prison population. 316 high security beds in the South Tower of Centennial Correctional Facility in Canon City will close by February 1, 2013. It’s the third year in […]