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The head of Colorado state's prison system was shot and killed at his home, just hours before the governor signed into law on Wednesday a package of gun control measures spurred by a rash of deadly mass shootings in Colorado and elsewhere.

One staffer is dead and another was seriously injured in a disturbance at a state prison in southeast Colorado.

A man who wrote a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles was booked into a Florida jail Tuesday after defending his book to reporters.

One of three convicted killers who escaped from an Arizona prison was captured in Rifle, Colorado, authorities said today. Two other escapees remain at large.

Charlie Sheen spent the better part of Christmas Day in a Colorado jail cell after being arrested on domestic violence allegations....