Florida investigators caught a police officer from southeastern Colorado in an undercover child solicitation sting, state officials announced Wednesday.

“Of the hundreds of applications for pardons my office receives, yours is one of the few I am granting,” Gov. Jared Polis wrote in letters to the people he pardoned.

An inmate who lost his leg while incarcerated at a southern Colorado prison last year was denied adequate medical care for days, a new lawsuit alleges.

A 13-year-old girl is missing after she was last seen in north Denver last week, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday.

Charles Gates’ body was found in the fetal position inside a lidded gray plastic tote. His eye had been removed and he suffered more than two dozen small puncture wounds to his face.

Denver leaders hope to improve the city’s response to domestic violence victims through new, unified approach to strangulation cases.

Two teenagers were killed in a suspected murder-suicide at a Lakewood home on Monday morning, police officials said.

An inmate died Monday at a federal prison in southern Colorado after being found unresponsive in the facility, according to federal officials.

A man accused of shooting two Colorado State Patrol troopers and firing on a sheriff’s deputy following an attempted traffic stop west of Woodland Park was fatally shot, state officials said.

An Adams County jury convicted Joshua Lucero in May of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust — pattern of abuse, according to court records.