Author: Sage Kelley The Denver Gazette

After 30 years with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Director Chris Schaefer announced his retirement Monday on the heels of independent investigations finding allegations of him providing preferential treatment meritless. Schaefer will officially retire on from his position on May 2. But, according to Schaefer, the retirement was always planned to fall on his…

Children’s Hospital Colorado and Denver Health announced Wednesday that they will return to providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 order said medical professionals are “maiming and sterilizing” impressionable young children by performing irreversible surgical and…

A jury found former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Andrew Buen guilty of criminally negligent homicide — but not of second-degree murder — in the shooting of 22-year-old Christian Glass on June 11, 2022 outside of Silver Plume, killing him. The charge is a lesser included offense in the second-degree murder charge. Buen stood…

The parents of 22-year-old Christian Glass recoiled on Wednesday as Clear Creek County prosecutors showed autopsy photos of their son after he was shot to death by a former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputy. Simon and Sally Glass faced the back courtroom wall, covering their ears, as Chief Deputy District Attorney Joe Kirwan discussed the…

A group of 30 tourists stood in the foyer of the Denver Mint on Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by the sparking marble sourced from Vermont when the building was built in 1904. An American eagle and flag stood above them on the flecked wall, engraved with gold and platinum — a monument to the importance the…