Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
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A Colorado man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing five members of an extended Senegalese family in a house fire.
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The person who killed five people and wounded over a dozen others during a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs is set to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday. Prosecutors are expected to show during the hearing that Anderson Lee Aldrich was spreading anti-gay slurs online in the weeks before the 2022 attack. Aldrich is already serving a life sentence in prison after pleading guilty to state charges last year and pleading no contest to hate crimes in that case. In the federal case, prosecutors have focused on proving the attack at Club Q was premeditated and fueled by bias against LGBTQ+ people.
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A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement.
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One person is dead and another has been hospitalized after a vehicle and a tanker truck crashed on Colorado's main east-west highway. The crash Thursday on Interstate 70 near Morrison created a fireball and sent up a huge plume of black smoke. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says a person in a vehicle died and the truck driver has been hospitalized.
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A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in suburban Denver last year.
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One of three teens who was charged with killing a 20-year-old woman while throwing large rocks at passing cars in Colorado has pleaded guilty to reduced charges under a plea agreement.
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State experts have found the man charged with shooting and killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 had untreated mental illness but was legally sane at the time of the attack.
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Prosecutors say a Colorado school bus aide shown on surveillance video hitting a nonverbal autistic boy has been charged with 10 more counts of abuse involving two children.
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Prosecutors urged jurors to convict a former Colorado sheriff's deputy of murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man in distress.
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The aftershocks — often unacknowledged in the years before mental health struggles were more widely recognized — led to some survivors suffering insomnia, dropping out of school, or disengaging from their spouses or families. But some have developed healthy ways to cope with the shadow of that horrific day through therapy and the support from an expanding group of fellow mass shooting survivors.