Felony child abuse, loss of a toddler’s life, a mother captivated by social media. Sounds a little like the Casey Anthony trial that’s transfixing people lately. But we’re talking about Aurora, Colorado, where 30-year-old Karen Pena was arrested Thursday on charges of child abuse resulting in death, a Class 3 felony. She is being held [...]

Last Saturday, U.S. 50 was closed for seven hours due to a fatal truck accident that resulted in a major blaze. The semi-tanker involved in the accident was carrying fuel which seems to have ignited during the crash. The driver, who was the only occupant of the vehicle at the time of the crash, was [...]

A family has been shattered by the crude blow dealt them in the form of an auto accident last Monday, when a mother and child were killed, and another child was hospitalized. Alan Gathright, a content producer for 7 News, synopsizes the accident: The collision occurred between a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria traveling eastbound on Highway [...]

The worst word one can hear in relation to a motor vehicle accident is the word “fatality.” I would venture to say that the worst phrase would, by extension, be “multiple fatality.” These very words apply to an unfortunate auto accident Monday afternoon. According to the State Patrol, at roughly 1:35 p.m., on Highway 52 near [...]

U.S. 34  and U.S. 36 were deadly places to be last week. Each highway was the site of a fatal accident last Thursday, one of them when a vehicle struck a pedestrian and the other a motorcycle fatality. In both collisions, the people in the cars had made it, while those less protected by the [...]

A ride for charity became a tragedy last Monday when a University of Colorado student was killed in a bike-car accident in New Mexico. John Anczarski was part of a four-man team bicycling across the country — raising funds and awareness for breast cancer — when he was fatally struck on his bike by a [...]

Earlier this month, Sandra Jacobson received the maximum sentence of 36 years for the January 2009 drunk-driving crash that killed two Connecticut librarians on their way to Denver International Airport. Jeremy P. Meyer, staff writer for The Denver Post, summarizes the case’s details: Jacobson, of Centennial, was convicted in April on nine counts related to the [...]

Accidents can happen anywhere; and sometimes the accidents that occur in the least likely places can have the most potential for disaster. Take the recent fatality on Lookout Rd. in Boulder County, Colorado — an area where a lone church is the only nearby and visible building. Scott Rochat, a reporter for The Longmont Times-Call, [...]

The maximum sentence has just been handed down in the case of a Jan. 28, 2009 car accident that resulted in the death of Kate McClelland, 71, and Kathy Krasniewicz, 54. The two victims — both librarians from Riverside, Connecticut in Colorado for a conference — were in a taxi on their way to Denver [...]

Jim Leyritz is a name well known to Baseball fans. He retired ten years ago, after playing in the Major Leagues for six different teams. According to Sophia Santana at the Sun Sentinel, Leyritz’s time with the New York Yankees and other teams netted him about $10 million over the course of his career. Leyritz was [...]