Logan Smith

Investigators in Weld County filed new charges last week against a woman who reportedly made 136 phone calls to the victims of her previous crimes from the jail's phones.

Search and rescue personnel were needed Saturday night to help two young women off a cliff-side climbing route above Telluride.

Denver Public Schools board members voted unanimously May 20 to dismiss a 50-year-old foreign language teacher following a district investigation and an independent review into student complaints about a class assignment.

A sprinter van pulling a cargo trailer veered off westbound Interstate 70 Saturday evening. No one was injured in the accident - unless you count a historic road sign as a casualty.

A 40-year-old Cañon City resident and U.S. Bureau of Prisons employee was recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on accusations that he accepted bribes to sneak cigarettes, vape pens and alcohol into a southern Colorado federal penitentiary.

Mike Chavez of Grand Junction is still amazed at his good timing. "It was quite the ordeal. One second ahead and the cab is crushed. One second behind, I would've hit boulders head-on."

Authorities overseeing the firefight against the week-old Willow Fire west of Leadville issued new evacuation and pre-evacuation orders Sunday morning after the blaze grew by nearly 1,000 acres in 24 hours.

All westbound lanes of U.S. 36 in Denver were closed Saturday morning after a collision caused a diesel fuel spill. The wreck reportedly involved a vehicle which struck a freight truck and drove away.

Swimmers at a metro Denver water park were asked to leave the establishment shortly after noon Saturday. The park is closing for the day and its property will be searched by police.

Several mudslides slid from a wildfire burn scar Thursday, blocking the only road out and trapping visitors at the bottom of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park for six hours.