Amy Beth Hanson, Associated Press

A judge has rejected a request to block a San Jose State women's volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she's transgender. Monday's ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews in Denver will allow the player to continue competing in the Mountain West Conference women's championship in Las Vegas this week.

Colorado officials say at least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural county and then sent in with fraudulent votes. The secretary of state says the issue was discovered during the signature verification process, and eight ballots were stopped at that point.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says a former DNA scientist cut corners and didn't follow standard testing protocols, raising questions about hundreds of criminal cases in which she processed evidence.

Denver police say the body of a woman who died in 2022 and the cremated remains of about 30 people were found at a rental house in Denver after a former funeral home owner was evicted from the property.

Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief's house while the chief was asleep.