DENVER — Denver homeless advocates this month have demanded that city leaders step in to help 42 people who faced a potential return to the streets, two years after the city worked with service providers to move them into subsidized housing.

The “rapid rehousing” vouchers they received, providing significant monthly rent support, are now ...Read more

The 16-year-old child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield was found safe in San Francisco after going missing for a week, while a man she was with was held on abduction and other charges.

Mint Butterfield had left their home about an hour north of San Francisco voluntarily last Sunday and was reported missing the following morning. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore County jury has found a man guilty of manslaughter in a 2020 fatal shooting, after the man, who was a minor at the time, successfully appealed a murder conviction in the case.

Gary Melvin, 30, was killed by a single gunshot during the Aug. 16, 2020, shooting at an Exxon gas station in Reisterstown.

Baltimore County ...Read more

CHICAGO — In one of the most serious cases on the detention hearing call at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on a day earlier this month, a judge ordered a teen jailed pending trial after he was accused of shooting a woman in the neck during an attempted carjacking.

“It’s difficult for the court to come to the finding that an 18-year-...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed a fourth gray wolf depredation in Grand County on Sunday, according to the confirmed gray wolf depredation information.

The incident involved one calf and no claim has been submitted.

CPW defines gray wolf depredation as physical trauma that results in injury or death to a domestic animal. ...Read more

ATHENS — Police broke up a protest of Israel’s war in Gaza on the campus of the University of Georgia on Monday morning, detaining several young demonstrators.

Around two dozen young protesters gathered on the Old College Lawn of the North Campus early Monday, some setting up tents, as the state’s flagship university became the latest U.S...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the Dali slid out of its berth at the Port of Baltimore in the early hours of March 26, it wasn’t alone.

A pair of 5,000-horsepower tugboats guided the massive container ship into the deep channel in the Patapsco River, pointing it toward the Chesapeake Bay as it began its voyage to Sri Lanka. Then, off they went, according ...Read more

If you want to understand why the two largest U.S. oil companies are together spending in excess of $100 billion on acquisitions right now, look no further than the amount of crude they’re extracting from the two hottest oil fields on the planet.

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., which reported earnings Friday, are both predicting their ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri Capitol riot defendant charged with assaulting police and placed on home lockdown pending trial will now be allowed to go to work and attend church, a federal judge has ruled.

Jared Luther Owens, of Farmington in St. Francois County — who prosecutors say “repeatedly assaulted officers” — said he needed to...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is ending its contract with the organization that answers local calls to the national 988 Lifeline, but state officials haven’t said why — or who will take over the suicide and crisis line.

Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners currently answers calls to both 988 and the state’s 844-493-8255 (TALK) suicide prevention hotline,...Read more

NEW YORK — Talks have broken down between Columbia University students and administrators to clear the campus pro-Gaza encampment, the school’s president announced Monday.

Monday is the last day of classes for the semester. Organizers and school officials had been in negotiations to remove the tents from the main campus lawns, which will be...Read more