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Shelly Bradbury
Shelly Bradbury is a breaking news reporter who joined The Denver Post in November 2019. She previously worked as a crime reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania and the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee. She's been a reporter since 2012, focused on criminal justice, breaking news and enterprise. In Pittsburgh, she helped the newspaper earn the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news after a mass shooting at a local synagogue.
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“It doesn’t define us”: Boulder community reflects one year after King Soopers shooting
In the year since a gunman attacked the King Soopers store on Table Mesa Drive in South Boulder, killing 10 people on March 22, 2021, the trauma of the shooting...

Twelve Tribes: A Black father’s struggle to pull his child from the racist cult
While the Twelve Tribes carefully curates a harmless, idyllic public image when visited by outsiders, the group's racist, misogynist and homophobic teachings are well known to ex-members, who described the...

“They are evil”: Ex-Twelve Tribes members describe child abuse, control inside religious cult
Twelve Tribes followers take pains to present an innocuous front to outsiders. They attract new members with a folksy peace-and-love, all-are-welcome message, but underneath that hollow promise of utopia lies...

State auditor finds evidence of illegal activities in Colorado’s Judicial Branch, refers 4 ex-employees for criminal investigation
An investigation by the state auditor into the Colorado Judicial Branch found evidence of occupational fraud, apparently illegal transactions and the misuse of public funds, according to an executive summary...

DAs call Polis’ reduction of trucker’s 110-year sentence “premature and unwarranted,” say it’s having “substantial ripple effect”
Gov. Jared Polis’ decision to abruptly reduce the 110-year prison sentence for the truck driver who killed four people in a fiery 2019 crash is impacting other ongoing court cases,...

Police identify 47-year-old man who killed 5 people, injured 2 others in Lakewood, Denver shooting spree
A gunman killed five people and injured two on a shooting spree Monday across Denver and Lakewood, police said. The gunman opened fire in at least six different locations across...

Polis says Coloradans may need booster to be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19
Coloradans may need to receive COVID-19 booster shots in order to be considered "fully vaccinated" against the virus, Gov. Jared Polis said Sunday during an interview with NBC News’s Chuck...

Trucker sentenced to 110 years in prison for fiery I-70 crash that killed 4
The truck driver who killed four people when he drove his out-of-control semitrailer into stopped traffic on Interstate 70 in Lakewood nearly three years ago was sentenced Monday to 110...

Denver Rescue Mission employee fatally stabbed at men’s shelter
A Denver Rescue Mission staff member was fatally stabbed Saturday night at the mission's shelter for men.

Wildfire burning outside Estes Park forces evacuations amid dry, windy conditions
A wildfire burning on the south side of Estes Park on Tuesday forced mandatory evacuations in the area.