Colorado judge declares mistrial for man charged with strangling reporter
Four days into a jury trial, a Colorado judge declared a mistrial due to concerns about the competency of a retired Marine charged with harassing and strangling a reporter in the name of “Trump’s America.” ...
Councilmembers mull ICE face mask ban
Two Denver City Council members are proposing a bill to ban federal law enforcement agents from wearing face masks during local operations ...
Newspapers seek sanctions over allegations OpenAI deleted key evidence
Lawyers representing The Denver Post and an array of news organizations suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing and distorting their reporters’ work have asked a Manhattan judge to sanction ChatGPT’s parent company, alleging the tech behemoth deleted millions of conversations they were required to hand over as evidence of copyright infringement ...
CDOC halts parole risk data access after 9NEWS Investigates highlights ‘unacceptable’ assessment errors with risk scores
Not long after the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) admitted 9NEWS Investigates had uncovered an “unacceptable” problem within the way it gauges the risk levels of the state’s 8,000 parolees, CDOC shut off the public’s access to the very documents 9NEWS Investigates used to discover the problem in the first place ...
At trial, Colorado reporter recalls Marine following, strangling him after demanding proof of citizenship
A former TV news reporter recalled before a jury being followed and assaulted by a Colorado man in December 2024, as the stranger demanded proof of his citizenship in the name of “Trump’s America.” ...
A Facebook user is suing the town of Kersey for blocking him and deleting his comment
A man who commented on the town of Kersey’s Facebook page in November, then saw his comment deleted and was blocked from the page is suing the Weld County town for violating his First Amendment right to free speech ...
Salzman: Lawmakers vote for more transparency. It’s their best weapon against gov’t haters & skeptics
The state legislature is impressive, scary, ugly, beautiful, idealistic, sad, and nothing close to perfect. Now you can pop some corn, watch what goes on there, and possibly get inspired to do something. And tell any government haters you may know to tune in ...
How CU Boulder’s student news site got taken over by AI slop
The imposter site is confusing readers with articles that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence and is siphoning pageviews from real student reporting, the CUI’s journalists say ...
Way too much body camera footage: police, prosecutors and defense attorneys struggle with loads of digital evidence
Not only are prosecutors, defense attorneys and law enforcement agencies having a hard time paying for the storage and keeping up with all of this evidence, the systems also aren’t talking to each other ...
Colorado bill would require law enforcement obtain a warrant to search Flock database in some investigations
Law enforcement may one day need to obtain a warrant in order to search the data collected from license plate readers in Colorado during certain investigations, if a piece of legislation currently being drafted becomes law ...
