Three people escaped the burning townhome on their own, and paramedics took them to the hospital with unknown injuries, according to the Westminster Fire Department.

The independent monitor overseeing court-ordered reforms for Aurora Police Department called for a review of three recent police shootings in which officers killed people who were in the midst of mental health crises.

A cyclist was struck and killed while crossing U.S. 85 in north metro Denver late Tuesday night, Brighton police said.

Jack Howard was shot while sitting in his car and writing a note asking the Conifer homeowners to call him, hoping to arrange for permission to take pictures near their private lake, prosecutors said.

Westbound Interstate 70 was closed Wednesday morning for a crash in Jefferson County, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The mounting complaints about Joanna Landau, the agency’s new executive director, came to a head during a two-hour public meeting attended by more than 200 people late Friday afternoon.

The truck driver accused in a deadly crash on I-70 in west metro Denver fell asleep at the wheel, veered off the road and flipped perpendicular across the highway, causing four oncoming vehicles to crash, Wheat Ridge police said.