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Prosecution drops death penalty in Adams County police-shooting case District Attorney Dave Young, a...

Prosecutors have backed off seeking a death sentence against the man accused of killing Adams County Deputy Heath Gumm in January 2018.  In a motion...
Gov. Jared Polis announced Colorado's first two cases of coronavirus in Colorado on March 5, 2020. As of Friday, March 27, tyhe state was up to more than 1,700 cases with 31 deaths. (Photo by John Herrick)

Littwin: Trump is back to war and Polis is telling us the best defense...

In case you were wondering, the wartime president is back. It took Donald Trump only a few days to realize that wishing away the...
Terrance and Rachel Hughes in February before both contracted the new coronavirus. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Hughes)

GREENE: The hands that need holding A Denver pastor and his wife have been...

Rachel Hughes answered a phone call Wednesday from her husband’s intensive care doctors. The Rev. Terrance Hughes – co-pastor at New Covenant Christian Church/Alpha Omega...
President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis, Wednesday, March, 11, 2020. (POOL PHOTO by Doug Mills/The New York Times) NYTVIRUS

Littwin: If Trump’s war against the pandemic is ending soon, who will tell the...

For those keeping score at home, we are now officially ending the war-time presidency phase of the battle against the novel coronavirus pandemic and...
A domestic violence survivor looks out the window at the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence in Boulder County. Organizations that serve domestic violence survivors are preparing for an increase in abuse — physical, emotional and financial — sparked by the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and massive job losses. (Photo by SPAN staff)

Amid quarantines and job losses, Colorado girds for wave of domestic violence 'This is...

The call to the hotline came in on Holly Kasper-Blank’s phone just before dawn last Wednesday. She remembers because she had been trying to...
In this COVID-19 pandemic, the first case in Colorado was a visitor to Summit County who had recently been in Italy. (Dillon Reservoir in Summit County, Colorado)

Guest Post: Pearl Harbor powerfully shifted Colorado’s trajectory. How will COVID-19 change our course...

This pandemic has started feeling like something more than an extended snow day or having the mumps when you’re a child. Perhaps it’s now...

Littwin: Ken Buck bravely goes where all informed people fear to tread

One of the first things they teach you in column-writing school — OK, there aren’t really any column-writing schools, but, as the saying goes,...

Denver’s cityscape stills in the time of coronavirus 'Me, I don’t like this, what...

An inscription on the entrance wall of Denver’s Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building asks those who enter “What is the city but the people?”  That...
Self-isolating Grandpa walks in on the action with grandsons Lalo and Ricky. I don’t know where the hats came from, but I wished I had one, too. (Photo by Angie Littwin)

Littwin: A self-isolator’s guide on life during the coronavirus pandemic

Reporting from an undisclosed self-isolation location: OK, it’s not funny. I am mostly self-isolated, though, which is a lot like being quarantined, which is a...

Months-long death penalty jury trial starts despite coronavirus crisis “This is unreal," civil rights...

UPDATE: On Monday, March 23, District Judge Mark Warner cited health concerns when postponing proceedings in Dearing's trial until April 6. The death penalty trial against...