Police split over Colorado murder conviction
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Police in Fort Collins, Colorado, still are arguing about the case two decades after the sexually mutilated body of Peggy Hettrick turned up near Tim Masters' home. When Masters was convicted, prosecutors thought the case was closed. But a judge is re-examining decisions made years ago and the case is dividing the law enforcement community.
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Jurors hearing Scott Peterson&#39;s double murder case will have two choices should they decide to convict the former fertilizer salesman, one of which would spare him a possible death sentence.
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - Human remains found in southeastern Utah are those of a man accused of killing a Colorado police officer, a slaying that sparked an intense manhunt for three people in 1998, authorities said Tuesday.
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The man suspected of shooting six hunters to death and a survivor agree that the tragedy began with a confrontation on private land. But they sharply differ on what happened next.
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Prosecutors moved Friday to drop the murder case against a man freed after nearly a decade in prison, but stopped short of saying he was exonerated by the DNA evidence that led a judge to overturn his conviction.
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A ruling by New York's highest court on the state's death penalty law has complicated the job of prosecutors and left the fate of inmates uncertain.
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By Rebecca Boyle, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Sep. 22--A first-degree murder case with seven defendants equals a lot of lawyers.
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Police investigating the murder of a woman found in a burnt-out bedroom question a man.
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Wining and dining at 35,000 feet gave way Monday to a cramped jail cell, a metal cot and bologna sandwiches as John Mark Karr awaited a hearing to determine when he will be sent to Colorado to face charges in the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.
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Some legal experts say the murder of a marijuana advocate could lead to a reconsideration of how medical marijuana is administered.
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A plan by a teenager to murder teachers  and students in April, the same month a massacre at Columbine  High School in Colorado took place in 1999, was foiled by the  arrest of a Massachusetts student last month, police said on  Wednesday.
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A man serving a life sentence in Colorado for murdering a teenage girl has claimed responsibility for as many as 48 slayings across the country dating back more than three decades, authorities said Thursday.
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Police said a second person may have been involved in the stabbing of Northern Colorado's starting punter.
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By Robert Boczkiewicz, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 3--DENVER -- The Pueblo County district attorney and the Sierra Club on Friday asked a judge to hear arguments "as soon as practicable" to winnow issues in their Fountain Creek lawsuits against Colorado Springs.
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After a month of often conflicting testimony about a fatal shooting of Afghan civilians, three military officers must now decide whether to recommend criminal charges Â but not before reviewing 5,000 pages of evidence.
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The Boulder police chief has defended his department's investigation of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey in several published reports, saying more than 160 suspects were investigated and $2 million spent.
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After a cascade of allegations about voter fraud, the state's top election official accused Colorado's attorney general Wednesday of not doing enough to prosecute potential ballot crimes.