The Adams County Sheriff and three others won more than $5 million in the lawsuit after they were fired by the previous sheriff for supporting his election opponent.

A federal jury on Tuesday awarded more than $5 million to four former high-ranking Adams County Sheriff’s Office employees who said former Sheriff Richard Reigenborn forced them to resign in 2019 because they had supported his opponent in the election, their attorney said.

A federal jury found former Adams County Sheriff Rick Reigenborn was political and punitive and violated the First Amendment when he fired four top commanders because they supported his opponent.

A federal jury awarded over $5 million to a sheriff and three deputies who accused the former sheriff of supporting a different candidate for sheriff in 2018.

A woman was convicted on several charges in connection to the 2020 shooting death of her boyfriend in Adams County.

State Rep. Manny Rutinel on Monday announced his candidate for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado's swingy 8th Congressional District, a nearly evenly d

Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and local law enforcement conducted an early

ICE said it made 956 arrests on Sunday across Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas and Adams County, Colorado.

Undocumented immigrants have rights during arrests, a local hotline to detect ICE raids and other tools to handle deportations.

"Sheriff Reigenborn admitted that he looked at who donated to the other campaigns because that’s public information," attorney Iris Halpern said.

A 29-year-old woman was convicted Tuesday in the 2020 murder of her boyfriend, Colorado's 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office said.