Crash closes southbound lanes of U.S. 85 in Brighton. Police expect lanes to remain closed for several hours

A Pueblo police officer fatally shot a passenger who was brandishing a gun after a car chase early Thursday, the police department said.

Two employees from a Front Range political canvassing company are charged with forging signatures on petitions used to get a Colorado school choice amendment on the 2024 general election ballot, the state attorney general’s office said.

Details about the circumstances of the death were not yet known.

Federal prosecutors likely months out from deciding whether to pursue death penalty.

A 16-year-old Thornton girl is missing after she was last seen near Riverdale Ridge High School at the end of March, police officials said.

Jolene Dorothea Mathiesen, 45, was found unresponsive in her bunk at the jail in Golden shortly after 4:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.