The cyclist was crossing South Havana Street in the 700 block at about 1:55 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department.

He was outside of the crosswalk when he was hit by a GMC Yukon driving north on Havana, police said in the release.

The cyclist, who died from his injuries at the scene of the crash, will be identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

Investigators believe both speed and alcohol were factors in the crash, police said.

Charges against the unidentified driver are “pending investigation,” police said. None had been filed as of Thursday morning.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

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The Eighth Avenue viaduct, a bridge between Tejon and Mariposa streets near where Interstate 25 meets Sixth Avenue, was closed over the weekend for maintenance, according to the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.

When it reopened Monday morning, the speed limit had dropped from 30 mph to 10 mph, city transportation officials said in a news release.

Officials have not yet decided if the change will be permanent.

The goal is to get motorists to drive slowly over the bridge’s damaged expansion joints, which are now covered by two steel plates installed during the weekend closure, according to the news release.

Expansion joints enable bridges to accommodate traffic loads, expand and contract as temperatures fluctuate and more, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The metal plates over the joints create a large bump in the roadway and could cause damage to vehicles if driven over too quickly, city officials said. Both plates will be in place until the damaged joints are repaired or replaced.

Maintenance and repairs will continue on the viaduct, and Denver transportation officials are seeking funding to replace the bridge’s west side.

The question of that funding, if approved by the Denver City Council, could appear on the November ballot as one of the projects included in the Vibrant Denver Bond.

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Adams County District Court Judge Jeffrey Ruff sentenced Anthony Dennis Grayson, 51, to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday, a mandatory sentence for first-degree murder.

An Adams County jury convicted Grayson on that charge on July 10, after a four-day trial.

The case was delayed because of questions surrounding Grayson’s competency.

Grayson was ultimately found competent and chose to represent himself at trial, according to a news release from the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Adams County sheriff’s deputies responded to the Family Dollar store at 7067 Pecos Street at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 1, 2016. When they arrived, they found the manager, Alejandro Alvear, had been stabbed multiple times.

Alvear died from his injuries at the hospital, sheriff’s officials said.

Grayson told investigators that the stabbing started as a confrontation over items he had bought.

The incident was caught on the store’s surveillance video. Witnesses told deputies Grayson demanded money back from Alvear and threatened to stab him if he refused, according to the news release.

A review hearing is scheduled for Dec. 11.

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“I was supposed to be able to trust my dad,” Mira Meservy, 21, said during Wednesday’s sentencing hearing for James Craig. “He was supposed to be my hero, and instead, he’ll forever be the villain in my book.”

James Craig, 47, will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering his wife, Angela Craig, through 10 days of repeated poisonings in March 2023. When all other attempts failed, prosecutors said the Aurora dentist gave his wife a dose of cyanide while she was hospitalized south of Denver.

Arapahoe County District Judge Shay Kara Whitaker sentenced Craig to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the first-degree murder charge, a mandatory sentence. He received an additional 33 years to run consecutively on five other felony charges rooted in his attempts to cover up his role in his wife’s death.

After nearly nine hours of deliberation, the jury on Wednesday afternoon found Craig guilty of first-degree murder, solicitation of first-degree murder and two counts each of solicitation of tampering with physical evidence and solicitation of perjury, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

The sentencing hearing started just minutes later.

Angela Craig’s six children and nine siblings will never get to see her again, a pain akin to “losing a limb,” one of her sisters, Kathryn Pray, testified.

“Her loss is a void in my life that can never be filled,” Angela Craig’s eldest sister, Toni Kofoed, said. “No more phone calls, no more texts, no more trips together where we talk and laugh through the night. You have taken away our ability to grow old together.”

Kofoed described her sister as a “fierce protector” and berated Craig for the image he and his defense painted of her during the two-week trial.

She called the dentist a cheat, a coward and a “heartless excuse of a human being.”

“Her life was not yours to take,” Kofoed said, turning toward Craig. “Angela had a love and a passion for life. She loved her children and, unfortunately, she loved you.”

Craig and his attorneys declined to make any statements before he was sentenced. No one else volunteered to speak on the dentist’s behalf.

‘You watched her slowly die’

Angela Craig died March 18, 2023, during her third trip to the hospital in a little over a week. She died from lethal doses of cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, an ingredient found in over-the-counter eyedrops, according to the coroner.

She spent the days leading up to her death in pain and researching the cause of her puzzling symptoms.

“You not only purchased the weapons of her death, but you watched her slowly die,” Kofoed said, addressing the table where Craig sat hunched over.

James Craig was arrested shortly after his wife’s death. From the beginning of the case, police called it “a heinous, complex and calculated murder.”

Prosecutors claimed Craig purchased nearly 20 bottles of eyedrops containing that lethal ingredient during a two-day span that aligned with his wife’s symptoms. He also tried to order other poisons online.

Craig told others that his wife was suicidal and had asked him to order the poison.

While Craig’s defense team tried to claim that Angela Craig killed herself, calling the poisoning “an ongoing game of chicken” that went too far, the jury disagreed.

“The jury said it loudly: Angela was not suicidal. She had no knowledge of or participation in what happened to her,” prosecutor Michael Mauro said after Wednesday’s sentencing hearing.

Craig poisoned his wife’s smoothies and cups, and replaced a bottle of prescription pills with poison, prosecutors said.

He also encouraged Angela Craig’s brother to give her the deadly capsules under the guise of medication and used a communal work computer to conduct hundreds of internet searches about poisons.

Craig tried to convince his daughter to create a deepfake video of Angela Craig asking him to order the poison and saying she planned to take it, Mauro said during the trial.

He also tried to cover up his role in Angela Craig’s death by asking people to forge additional journal entries to plant with his wife’s journal, arrange fake witnesses to testify on his behalf and kill key players in the case, including the lead detective and a jail informant.

Dentist mounted no defense

The prosecution and defense both rested their cases Monday and delivered closing arguments Tuesday, two weeks after the trial began.

Craig’s attorneys did not present a defense before resting and called no witnesses to the stand, but suggested Angela Craig played a role in her own death and faulted police for focusing solely on the dentist as a suspect. Prosecutors called nearly 50 witnesses throughout the trial.

Prosecutors argued Craig wanted to kill his wife to get out of a marriage he felt trapped in, adding he didn’t want a divorce so he could protect his money and image.

He tried to claim three conflicting narratives — that she was suicidal, that she took the “game of chicken” too far and that she was trying to set him up, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said photos from a hospital security camera shown in court depicted Craig holding a syringe before he entered Angela Craig’s room. After administering the fatal dose through her IV, Craig walked out and texted a fellow dentist with whom he was having an affair, Mauro told jurors during closing arguments. His wife’s condition quickly worsened.

One of Craig’s attorneys, Lisa Fine Moses, told jurors earlier this week that the image was blurry and syringes that investigators recovered did not contain any poison. She also said the couple wasn’t in financial trouble, and that Craig’s cheating had been going on for years and had never been a motivation for murder.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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Updated 5:45 p.m. July 30, 2025: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the Craigs’ daughter to Miriam “Mira” Meservy.

As of July 25, drivers can only turn left at the intersection of Tower Road and East 81st Avenue when they have a green arrow, city officials announced on social media. Before, drivers were allowed to turn on a flashing yellow.

City officials said the change was already in the works as part of a larger safety effort, but staff prioritized it after the recent shuttle bus crash.

“The goal of the change is to remove human error, including misjudging the speed of oncoming traffic, from those left turn movements,” city spokesperson Travis Huntington said in an emailed statement to The Denver Post. “This is based on an engineering judgment and not necessarily related to a history of serious crashes at any particular location.”

Huntington said there were zero fatal crashes at that intersection between 2019 and 2023, but added that “one fatal crash on our roads is one too many.”

Just over 30 crashes were reported at the intersection during that time frame, and most of them were noninjury crashes, according to data from the city.

Staff monitored the location through the weekend after the light change was implemented and found it did not cause additional congestion at the intersection, Huntington said.

More intersections throughout Commerce City can expect to see the same changes go into effect in the coming weeks.

For now, that includes Tower Road at East 83rd and East 88th avenues, and where East 104th Avenue meets Colorado 2 and Chambers Road, city officials said.

The green-arrow-only turns are part of Commerce City’s new safety action plan, which focuses on reducing fatal and injury crashes across the city, according to Huntington.

That plan is still being drafted and is scheduled to go before the city council for adoption in September, but city officials are taking early action to improve safety at these intersections where the current lights “presented cause for concern,” he said.

As the lights are implemented, staff will decide if the green-arrow-only turns will be added to more intersections, Huntington said.

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The hiker injured a knee while on the Crater Lake Trail between Maroon Lake and Crater Lake, a popular hike that starts about 30 minutes from downtown Aspen, according to a news release from the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.

The out-and-back trail spans about two miles in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area.

Sheriff’s officials said the injured hiker texted the Pitkin County Regional Emergency Dispatch Center via satellite at 12:12 p.m. Tuesday. Dispatchers then alerted Mountain Rescue Aspen.

The first rescuers arrived at the trail in 50 minutes to start stabilizing the injured hiker, sheriff’s officials said.  More volunteers arrived shortly after and carried the hiker out to a waiting ambulance.

All 19 rescue personnel were out of the field by 2:45 p.m., according to the release.

Mountain Rescue Aspen and the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said people should “hike smart,” which includes knowing their limits, picking the right trail, having an emergency plan and bringing the appropriate gear and supplies.

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The three-person climbing group was scaling the “Hasta la Vista Amichi” route near Officers Gulch at about 11 a.m. Tuesday, north of Copper Mountain on Interstate 70, according to a news release from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. That’s when one of them fell.

The fallen climber had most of the group’s climbing gear, leaving the other two stranded on the rock, sheriff’s officials said.

Rescuers said the climber died at the scene.

The climber’s identity and cause of death will be released by the Summit County Coroner’s Office.

“This is a tragic loss, and our hearts are with the climber’s family and loved ones,” Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons stated in the release. “I’m grateful to our deputies and the Summit County Rescue Group for safely evacuating the surviving climbers and recovering the victim.”

“Hasta la Vista Amichi” is a bolted sport climbing route rated 5.7, according to the Mountain Project. Class 5 is where hiking ends and climbing begins — ropes, belaying and fall protection are typically required.

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Jeremiah Mullins, 32, took a deal and pleaded guilty last month to three felony charges: attempted second-degree kidnapping, aggravated robbery and second-degree motor vehicle theft.

Mullins was sentenced to 25 years for attempted kidnapping, 25 years for aggravated robbery and 12 years for motor vehicle theft, court records show. All three sentences will be served concurrently.

The 32-year-old was arrested in October after he threatened a student with a gun and told her to get into his car near West 125th Avenue and Delaware Street in Westminster, police said.

When the girl refused, Mullins grabbed her backpack and took off.

Mullins was previously arrested in 2019 for abducting an Aurora woman who was warming up her car.

The kidnapping charges in that case were dropped, along with several other felony charges, after he took a deal and pleaded guilty to attempted robbery, court records show.

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The crash happened just before 9:30 p.m. on July 23, when an unknown driver made an unsafe lane change in front of a motorcycle on northbound I-25, under the Interstate 70 overpass, according to a release from the Denver Police Department.

That caused the motorcycle to hit the unidentified vehicle, police said.

The motorcyclist was seriously injured and the unknown driver fled the scene, according to the release.

Investigators believe the car has minor to moderate damage on the rear, but no further description was available Wednesday.

Anyone with information on the crash or the driver is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000.

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The Denver Police Department first posted about the shooting in the 1000 block of West Colfax Avenue at 8:39 p.m. Tuesday.

Two people were shot and both died from their injuries, police said in a Wednesday morning update.

Additional information about the shooting was not available Wednesday morning.

Another person was shot Tuesday evening near South Stuart Street and Morrison Road in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood, according to an 8:36 p.m. statement on social media from the police department.

Paramedics took one victim to the hospital with unknown injuries, police said.

Both shootings remain under investigation, police said.

This is a developing story and may be updated. 

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