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• Dump-truck driver convicted in bicyclist's death

  March 9, 2013 1:35 PM

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A dump-truck driver accused of hitting and killing a bicyclist near Boulder has been convicted of careless driving resulting in death. The Daily Camera reports the jury handed down the verdict Friday against Christopher Loven, who is scheduled to be sentenced May 2. Investigators say Loven... more »

• Man convicted of first degree murder of Fort Carson soldier

  December 15, 2012 7:07 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A 23-year-old man has been convicted in the shooting death of a soldier from Illinois who was stationed at Fort Carson. The Denver district attorney's office said Friday that Ricky Scott was found guilty of first-degree murder in the July 23, 2011, death of 25-year-old Sgt. Anthony... more »

• Man convicted after body found in trunk

  December 12, 2012 11:19 PM

  CENTENNIAL, Colo - A man who drove to the Arapahoe County Jail with a body in the trunk of his car has been convicted by a jury of first-degree murder. Forty-two-year-old Robert Leroy Johnson faces life in prison in the October 2010 death of Thomas Francis Datema. District Attorney spokeswoman... more »

• Woman receives 10 years in prison for killing Colorado Springs lady in crash

  August 15, 2012 6:01 PM

  A woman convicted of causing a fatal head-on collision after driving the wrong way on Interstate 25 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of parole. Before she was sentenced today in Denver, Victoria Barry told a judge she will suffer for the rest of... more »

• Florida man charged with attempted murder after 24 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit

  July 31, 2012 11:23 AM

  A Florida man who was paid $1.25 million for being wrongly convicted of rape has been charged with attempted murder. Alan Jerome Crotzer is accused of shooting into a car Sunday in Tallahassee. Authorities say he wounded Antoine Davis in his arm and leg. Davis told police Crotzer threatened him... more »

• Convicted killer's home destroyed

  December 6, 2011 7:58 AM

  CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland is tearing down the home where a serial killer dumped the remains of the 11 women he murdered. Live video from the scene on Tuesday shows demolition equipment clawing apart Anthony Sowell's house. Victims' relatives and neighbors tell media outlets that razing the home... more »

• Mother in street crossing death offered new trial

  July 27, 2011 8:15 AM

  MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia woman spared jail time for her vehicular homicide conviction in the death of her 4-year-old son, who was struck by a van as the two jaywalked on a busy street, says she's considering the judge's offer of a new trial. The woman, 30-year-old... more »

• Man convicted in meat thermometer stabbing

  December 16, 2010 7:13 PM

  LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) - A man accused of stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a Southern California theater has been convicted of attempted murder. A Lancaster Superior Court jury on Thursday also found Landry Boullard guilty... more »

• Prison chief says state didn't detect prison flaws

  August 19, 2010 3:41 PM

  The Arizona Department of Corrections is transferring more than 100 inmates from a privately operated state prison in Kingman where three inmates escaped July 30. Corrections Director Charles Ryan says the transfers to other prisons result from tighter restrictions being imposed on what inmates can be assigned to the... more »

• Teller County man convicted of sexually assaulting child

  July 14, 2010 4:55 PM

  Kenneth James Cox, Jr. was convicted earlier this month of 12 charges, including sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Cox was arrested by Teller County Sheriff's Deputies last September. He's scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 20, according to Sgt. Nick Olmsted. more »

• Five Americans convicted in Pakistan

  June 24, 2010 2:37 PM

  SARGODHA, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani court has convicted five young American men on terror charges and sentenced them each to 10 years in prison. The five Muslims from the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., were arrested in December. Prosecutors say e-mail records and witness statements prove they had... more »

• Wrongly convicted man gets $5.9 million from Fort Collins

  June 8, 2010 5:45 PM

  The city of Fort Collins has approved a $5.9 million lawsuit by a man who served nearly 10 years in prison for murder before he was released based on DNA evidence. The settlement announced Tuesday brings to $10 million the amount Tim Masters has received from his lawsuit against... more »

• North Carolina Governor pardons wrongly convicted man

  May 21, 2010 5:36 PM

  North Carolina's governor has granted a pardon to a man absolved of a murder conviction in the first case of its kind in the country. Gov. Beverly Perdue issued the pardon of Greg Taylor on Friday afternoon. Taylor had already been out of prison since being exonerated by a... more »

• Man convicted in Williams' slaying seeks new trial

  April 21, 2010 4:21 PM

  Lawyers for a man convicted in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams are seeking a new trial. Twenty-six-year-old Willie D. Clark was convicted last month of first-degree murder in Williams' death on New Year's Day 2007, after both men had left the same night club.... more »

• Woman convicted of taping dog to fridge

  April 14, 2010 10:16 AM

  A former University of Colorado student has been convicted of felony animal cruelty for taping her boyfriend's 2-year-old dog to a refrigerator. A jury took about two hours Tuesday to convict 21-year-old Abby Toll. Police responding to a domestic violence call last April found the dog hanging upside down in... more »

• 26 convicted killers tried to buy guns in Colorado

  December 6, 2009 9:22 AM

  Colorado investigators say twenty-six convicted killers attempted to buy guns but were denied this year as part of the state's instant background check program. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says the convicts were among the nearly 5,000 people through November who were denied a gun purchase because of their criminal... more »

• Driver convicted in fatal California bus crash

  October 9, 2009 9:09 AM

  The driver of a bus that crashed in Northern California last year, killing 11 people, has been convicted of 11 counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. Jurors deliberated for about three hours yesterday before convicting 53-year-old Quintin Watts of Stockton. They also found him guilty of 21 counts of great bodily... more »

• Dad convicted of child abuse in missing girl case

  September 28, 2009 6:01 PM

  Jurors have found Aaron Thompson guilty of one count of child abuse resulting in death in the disappearance and presumed death of his young daughter. The charge was one of 55 in a verdict delivered by jurors Monday after nine days of deliberation. A mistrial was declared on two other... more »