Photos: Twenty most memorable mug shots of March 2013

March in Colorado crime was dominated by Evan Ebel, who’s thought to have murdered pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado Department of Corrections executive director Tom Clements before being gunned down in Texas. But he was far from the only person whose booking photos rose to the top of the…

James Holmes prosecutor: “For James Eagan Holmes, justice is death”

Update: After DA George Brauchler announced at today’s Aurora theater shooting hearing that he plans to seek the death penalty against James Holmes, Judge Carlos Samour turned his attention to defense attorneys’ desire for Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal sources who gave her information about a notebook the…

Photos: Big Blue Bear goes green in weekend vandalism

If it was intended as an early April Fools’ Day joke, it wasn’t a very funny one. On Saturday night, vandals splashed green paint on the Big Blue Bear, the symbolic mascot of the Colorado Convention Center, and of Denver tourism in general — if you don’t count DIA’s demon…

Jacqueline Gallegos’s son wants death penalty for killer of his mom

In recent days, members of Colorado’s general assembly have been battling over legislation intended to outlaw the death penalty in Colorado. Yesterday, however, the proposal failed in the House Judiciary Committee. This development distressed the Colorado ACLU; see the group’s statement below. But it was good, or at least positive,…