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Nearly a year after the death of Isabella Thallas in Denver, the city is grappling with how the rifle used to kill Thallas was a personal firearm of a Denver police officer who was a longtime friend of the shooting suspect.

Nearly a year after the death of Isabella Thallas in Denver, the city is grappling with how the rifle used to kill Thallas was a personal firearm of a Denver police officer who was a longtime friend of the shooting suspect.

A woman was fatally shot while walking a dog. The gun used was a police officer’s AK-47. Timothy Bella A mural of Isabella Thallas by artist Thomas “Detour” Evans in Denver. Thallas, 21, was killed last year by an alleged gunman who used an AK-47 owned by a police officer. As Darian Simon was walking his dog with his girlfriend last June, he heard a critical voice yelling at them to not let the dog go to the bathroom in the alley of a Denver apartment building. The man ...

A lone car sits on the side of highway 285 after spinning out in the snow as a snowplow passes on the other side of the highway near Conifer on March 13, 2021. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, several inches of snow had accumulated in the foothills west of Denver, and for the Denver metro area, several dozen inches of snow were forecast to fall through the end of the weekend. (Forrest Czarnecki/The Gazette) Forrest Czarnecki

A powerful storm that became a blizzard dropped several inches of snow across the Colorado Springs area, the Front Range and the state on Saturday into Sunday.

Snow totals for March 13-14, 2021 Colorado snowstorm Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Courtesy Carla Ambrose More than 2 feet of snow had fallen in the Red Feather Lakes area by Sunday morning on March 14, 2021. and last updated 2021-03-15 09:27:28-04 DENVER – The snowstorm arrived in earnest Saturday evening in Colorado and after heavy snow throughout Sunday, the storm has moved out of the s...

US 285 reopens after total closure near Pine Junction for multi-vehicle crash Denver7 and last updated 2021-03-10 11:51:35-05 PINE JUNCTION, Colo. — Both directions of US 285 near Pine Junction closed Wednesday morning due to a multi-vehicle crash. The highway reopened around 9:25 a.m. Colorado Department of Transportation said the highway closed between Roland Valley Drive and Rim Rock Road, just west of Pine Junction, around 7:35 a.m. Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said troo...

A car crash that involved at least five vehicles took place on Highway 285 south of Pine Junction on Wednesday morning. No injuries have been reported.

Colorado Department of Transportation recently announced plans to remove the signal at U.S. 285 and Park County Road 43A, which is north of Bailey. The press release stated that “Removal of the traffic signal at CR 43A allows traffic on U.S. 285 to flow through the area, removing the traffic backups currently occurring.”  Removal of the light would provide safer, more efficient routes, decrease possible crash locations at the intersection and free right turns at CR 43A allowing for...