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Aurora Masters, 5, will be laid to rest on Saturday, a month after the Fort Collins, Colorado, girl was strangled by the rope of a disc swing in a backyard accident. Aurora’s family has found comfort through her organ donation, which allows her heart to “beat somewhere.” Her great-aunt, Brenda Kennedy, told Fox News Digital that the plucky girl was …

Denver officials recently released a “how to guide” to help other cities across the country splash taxpayer cash on housing, health care and other services for migrants. The 15-step “playbook,” which describes migrants as “newcomers” in its first paragraph, lays out several ways other cities can manage the crisis by outlining best practices and procedures for integrating migrants into local …

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two bills into law Friday that overhaul state oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts. The cases put Colorado’s lax funeral home regulations — some of the weakest in the nation …

DENVER – Colorado is facing a foster care shortage along with more than a dozen other states. One nonprofit in Colorado said there aren’t enough families willing to take in the increasing number of children they’re seeing enter the foster care system this year. This comes as a lot of children are winding up in foster care across the United …

A Colorado mother was not going to let an alleged peeping Tom escape after she says she caught him watching her change in a department store fitting room. The incident happened May 11 in Lakewood, Michelle Chandler told local FOX31. The unnamed mall store reportedly offers dressing rooms for both men and women in the same area. Chandler said she …

A Colorado teen has pleaded guilty for his role in a deadly rock-throwing spree with his pals that killed a 20-year-old woman in Denver last year. Zachary Kwak, 19, was one of three teens who threw landscaping rocks at several cars in April 2023 – with one rock smashing through the windshield window of a car being driven by Alexa …

A group of illegal immigrants in Denver is refusing to leave encampments until the city meets its demands. The migrants published a document with 13 specific demands before they acquiesce to Denver Human Services’ request to leave the encampments and move to more permanent shelters funded by the city. “At the end of the day, what we do not want …

One teen was critically hurt and another was charged with trespassing after first responders rescued them and another from an abandoned missile silo in Colorado. Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said an 18-year-old male fell about 30 feet inside the underground silo near the town of Deer Trail around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. The high schooler and his friends gained access by …

Colorado lawmakers passed a sweeping bill Monday to overhaul the state’s lax oversight over funeral homes after a series of horrific incidents, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the discovery of 190 decaying bodies. The cases have devastated hundreds of already grieving families, and encouraged lawmakers to pass the bill, which now goes to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ desk …

A city water service provider channeled the Backstreet Boys in a recent effort to get people to follow local watering rules, with a viral video that caught the attention of the popular 90s boy band. The “Splashstreet Boys” and their parody song, “I Water That Way,” is a takeoff on the 1999 smash hit, “I Want it That Way.” “Tell …