Douglas County

Mourners gathered Wednesday to honor Kendrick Castillo, the young hero who lost his life protecting classmates during last week’s deadly school shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Kendrick, 18, was killed when he and two other students rushed one of the gunmen. Eight other students were hurt in the attack.

Nearly 2,000 people turned out Wednesday for a memorial service to honor the Colorado teenager who was killed while charging one of the two gunmen who opened fire inside a high school and shot nine people just days before graduation. A line of Jeeps and trucks stretched along a Highlands Ranch roadway ahead of the service for Kendrick Castillo, 18,...

Prosecutors investigating the case against two students suspected of shooting nine classmates, one fatally, in a suburban Denver charter school have until next week to decide what charges to pursue, a judge ruled Friday.
Meanwhile, all but one of those injured in the shooting have been released from hospitals, officials said.

A former classmate of Devon Erickson said the 18-year-old student accused of killing and injuring students at a Colorado school showed warning signs of the shooting as a student himself. “We weren’t surprised who it was because you could kind of see that coming from a mile away, but the fact that he actually did it…,” said Kevin Cole. “Because...

Two students opened fire Tuesday inside a charter school in an affluent suburb of Denver not far from Columbine High School, killing a teenager, wounding eight and spreading minutes of terror before they were taken into custody with no injuries, authorities said.

At least 7 people were injured Tuesday in a Colorado school shooting. Two suspects were taken into custody, officials said.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a Texas man has been arrested after an undercover investigator found 11 pounds of heroin on him, including some strapped to his torso.

Two men who were nearby when a Colorado sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed were interviewed and released, authorities said Friday as a suspect in the slaying prepared to make his first court appearance. A statement issued on Twitter by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said no other suspects were being sought in the killing of 31-year-old Deputy Heath Gumm....

A man fired more than 100 rounds at officers early Sunday, killing one sheriff’s deputy and injuring four other officials, before being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two civilians were also injured. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect Sunday night as 37-year-old Matthew Riehl. Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said the shooting occurred at a...

Law enforcement agencies around the country are warning iPhone users about a potentially deadly prank involving the Apple iPhone’s “virtual assistant” Siri.

A California man was arrested for disorderly conduct after Justin Timberlake said he got too physical with him last weekend during the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at Lake Tahoe, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Keith Weglin, 29, of Sacramento was booked into the county jail for the misdemeanor Saturday afternoon, posted $640 bail and was released late that night, Douglas...

A family member of the man who went on a deadly shooting rampage at a rural Oregon college told NBC4 that they were in shock and they didn’t understand why he resorted to violence. “I don’t know what to say,” the family member said in an interview Thursday night from Tarzana, in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles....

A pastor whose daughter survived last week’s deadly rampage in a college classroom told his congregation on Sunday that “violence will not have the last word” in this southern Oregon timber town.