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The latest news from the crime and courts beat for Friday, January 9
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Friday, January 9, 2026

Autopsy offers few answers about Colorado woman missing 7 years, found dead steps from home

Terri Ackerman disappeared from her Lochbuie home in August 2018. Her body was discovered seven years later inside a detached garage just feet from her house.

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Man arrested in north Longmont stabbed grandfather, mother, strangled grandmother

The man arrested for stabbing two people in North Longmont on Wednesday reportedly stabbed his 71-year-old grandfather and his mother, and strangled his grandmother, two days after being arrested for assaulting his grandparents, an arrest affidavit states.

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Colorado State Patrol trooper hit by fleeing suspect on I-76 in north Denver metro

Troopers tried to force the man out of the car and the driver then hit a trooper with his BMW as he fled the scene, CSP said.

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Man fought off a mountain lion on the same trail weeks before a fatal attack near Estes Park

Weeks before a 46-year-old Fort Collins woman was killed in a mountain lion attack near Estes Park, a Glen Haven resident fought off a lion on the same trail.

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Colorado road conditions: Westbound I-70 reopens on Vail Pass after crash

Westbound I-70 over Vail Pass reopened after a crash closed the highway Thursday morning.

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Missing people in the Denver metro: 32-year-old man missing from Adams County

A 21-year-old Indigenous woman was reported missing Wednesday from Aurora, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

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Englewood school’s inaction enabled bus monitor’s abuse, parents allege in new lawsuit

The lawsuit faults the school for what it describes as a practice of investigating abuse suspicions internally, rather than reporting suspicions to outside authorities as req