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It was no accident that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who has separated himself from his rivals with blunt talk on gun control, chose...
Gov. John Hickenlooper, cementing his imprint on Colorado's Supreme Court, on Wednesday appointed Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. to the state's highest court.
Samour,...
James Holmes’ mental illness convinced not just one, but three jurors from deciding he should be sentenced to death, an Aurora theater shooting juror...
James Holmes is still eligible for the death penalty, a jury determined Monday.
After three hours of deliberation, all 12 jurors have decided that the...
“This bill proposes that the answer to gun violence in the schools is to put more guns into the schools. I’m not surprised, because that’s the gun lobby’s answer."