Matthew Brown and Colleen Slevin, Associated Press

A former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA scientist faces 102 criminal charges after authorities said she cut corners and didn't follow standard testing protocols in hundreds of criminal cases. Yvonne "Missy" Woods is due to make an initial appearance Thursday in state district court in Jefferson County.

A jury has acquitted another Denver-area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died. It was the second of three trials against first responders indicted by state prosecutors in the 23-year-old Black man's death.

The body of a heavily armed man who authorities suspected was planning a "heinous" attack at a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado was discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bathroom at a building that houses a ride that drops 110-feet deep into caverns.