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Alissa faces 10 counts of first-degree murder and more than 20 counts of attempted murder, among other charges.

Experts have found a man charged with the attack at a Boulder, Colo., supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now, attorneys said during a court hearing.

Supermarket Shooting FILE - Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in March, is led into a courtroom for a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. Experts have found Alissa is mentally incompetent to proceed in the case, attorneys said during a court hearing, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/Pool, File) (David Zalubowski)DENVER — (AP) — Experts have found a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial for now, attorneys said during a court hearing Friday. District Attorney Michael Dougherty said four doctors have now determined that Alissa isn't mentally competent to participate in court proceedings. An earlier evaluation found Alissa was not mentally competent, but prosecutors asked for a second evaluation to be conducted.

File photo: A car sits buried under snow on March 14, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)DENVER — Denver’s weather is one for the record books, as the calendar turned to December with no measurable snowfall. The last time snow fell in Denver was April 22, 2021, which means there have been 226 consecutive days without snow. That ranks this period as the third longest period without snow so far, with the longest period without snow being 235 days in 1887. Resorts have had to make artificial snow, which still relies on weather for safety and maintenance.

The Omicron variant has been reported in least five states including California, New York, Minnesota, Colorado and Hawaii.

Officials warned the omicron variant will spread in the U.S. New cases were reported in Minnesota and Colorado Thursday.

A widespread and intense heatwave is roasting large portions of the U.S. and Canada, shattering daily and monthly temperature records. Why it matters: Winter is the fastest-warming season across the U.S., and the lingering warmth is shortening the snow season in places like Colorado and Montana, where mountain snowpack is a critical source of water during the summer months. Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.The big picture: On Wednesday, British Columbia

Officials on Thursday announced the first case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 in Colorado, marking the third known case of the newly identified viral variant nationwide. >> Read more trending newsGov. Jared Polis said at a news conference Thursday that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment confirmed the state’s first case of the omicron variant. Check back for updates to this developing story. ©2021 Cox Media Group

Racial Injustice Ketamine FILE - This photo shows a vial of ketamine, which is normally stored in a locked cabinet, July 25, 2018 in Chicago. Colorado's health department says emergency workers should not use a condition involving erratic behavior by people as a reason to inject them with the drug ketamine. Colorado's health department last year announced an expert panel would review the state’s ketamine waiver program. The program allows emergency medical service directors to get the waivers allowing their personnel to use ketamine outside hospital settings, such as in ambulances. Dr. Eric France, the state’s chief medical officer said having state licensing authority allows for more oversight of local emergency medical services.

Walmart's highest salary on a job offer was for a systems engineering manager, per WSJ. The role's maximum base pay was $200,000.

Colorado’s health department says emergency workers should not use a condition involving erratic behavior as a reason to inject people with the drug ketamine.

Ski patrol found the skier unconscious and not breathing.

The Denver Post editorial board slammed the conspiracy theory-endorsing Colorado Republican as "clearly incapable of remorse or reflection."

In Denver, a district-wide mental health day was implemented to help alleviate burnout.

Mike Tyson told CNBC cannabis makes him a "different person" and that he's releasing his Tyson 2.0 cannabis line.

"We expect Omicron to be identified quickly, if it emerges in the U.S.," according to the statement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A Wyoming couple facing criminal charges in Larimer County is suing the public defender's office for declining to take their cases.

The Colorado Republican claimed she had made a joke about her Muslim colleague being a terrorist while sharing an elevator.

A dry spell is hitting Colorado, leaving the usually packed runs still waiting for that first big snow dump.

A dry spell is hitting Colorado, leaving the usually packed runs still waiting for that first big snow dump.

US retailers are struggling to find and retain workers who have been put off by low pay, a lack of benefits, and pandemic health concerns.

The defendants are accused of committing 29 burglaries of bicycle shops over seven months, sometimes using rocks, sledgehammers, and stolen U-Hauls for their smash-and-grab heists

In both states, roughly 63% of all residents are fully vaccinated. But California has one of the best coronavirus case rates in the U.S. and Colorado has one of the worst.

School shooting injures 3 Stock illustration depicting gun violence in a school setting. A 16-year-old Colorado student is facing an attempted murder charge related to a Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, shooting in the Hinkley High School parking lot that wounded three teenagers. (fstop123/Getty Images/iStockphoto)AURORA, Colo. — A 16-year-old Colorado student is in custody and facing an attempted murder charge related to a Friday shooting in the Hinkley High School parking lot that wounded three teenagers, the Aurora Police Department confirmed. >> Read more trending newsThe shootings occurred just after noon, and responding officers found one teenager in the parking lot who had been shot. Meanwhile, an Aurora Police Department school resource officer fired his weapon during the attack, but it was not immediately clear if his shots struck anyone.

Aurora officials said the settlement was the largest ever paid by the municipal government. The sum is more than double what Aurora paid to settle officer-involved lawsuits between 2010 and 2017.

Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against One America News earlier this year over 2020 election conspiracy theories.

KUSA's Kyle Clark tore into the Colorado conspiracy theorist and GOP lawmaker in a blistering TV commentary.

New York and Rhode Island are asking adults in high-transmission areas to get boosted, while New Jersey and Minnesota are planning to expand eligibility.

Kruger Rock Fire 2021: Photos capture Colorado blaze near Rocky Mountain National Park The Kruger Rock Fire continues to burn on November 16, 2021, in Estes Park, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)ESTES PARK, Colo. — Crews on Wednesday continued to fight Colorado’s Kruger Rock Fire, a 133-acre blaze that prompted evacuations in a popular resort destination, Estes Park. >> Read more trending newsLater Tuesday, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said the pilot of a single-engine air tanker died in a crash while battling the blaze. Social media users are sharing photos of the wildfire with the hashtags #KrugerRockFire and #EstesPark. Here are some of those images:©2021 Cox Media Group

The 100-acre flame, which ignited Tuesday, is believed to have been ignited by an issue with power lines.

Federal regulators are reportedly planning imminent expansion as state leaders show impatience in deploying preventive shots before winter sets in.

Police are asking the public for help in finding two vehicles believed to have been involved in a drive by shooting in a park near a suburban Denver high school that left six teenagers wounded.

The 100-acre flame, which ignited Tuesday, is believed to have been ignited by an issue with power lines.

5 teenagers hospitalized after park shooting near Colorado high school Stock photo of crime scene tape. Five Colorado teenagers were hospitalized Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, following a shooting at Nome Park, the Aurora Police Department confirmed via Twitter. (Richard Theis/EyeEm / Getty Images)AURORA, Colo. — Five Colorado teenagers were hospitalized Monday afternoon following a shooting at Nome Park, the Aurora Police Department confirmed via Twitter. >> Read more trending news#APDAlert: Officers are on scene of a shooting at Nome Park, Nome/12th. Nearby Aurora Central High School was placed on a secure perimeter, not a lock down, following the shooting, the department clarified.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Governor Jared Polis of Colorado that aired Sunday, November 14, 2021, on "Face the Nation."

Fighting diabetes, a transgender woman hoped to find solace in her Colorado community. Instead, she's hours away and alone. She blames discrimination.

The three states have some of the nation's highest rates of new infections.

The president of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow said Saturday that phasing out coal was still part of the agreement text as negotiators pored over fresh proposals Saturday aimed boosting the world's efforts to tackle global warming. (Nov. 13)

In a letter to health providers dated Tuesday, Nov. 9. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order Friday expanding eligibility for COVID-19 booster shots. Her state health department's acting secretary, Dr. David Scrase, said rising case numbers have some hospitals in New Mexico overwhelmed. In California, state Public Health Officer Tomás Aragón sent a letter to local health officials and providers saying they should "allow patients to self-determine their risk of exposure." Jared Polis signed an executive order on Thursday to expand use of booster shots.

California is among three states now allowing coronavirus booster shots for all adults.

Federal officials in September said they would consider if those protections should be restored in western states in response to loosened hunting rules in Idaho and Montana. Protections for wolves in the Rockies were lifted over the last decade and hunting of them is allowed. Wildlife advocates argue that continued protections are needed so they can continue to expand in California, Colorado, Oregon and other states. Wyoming also allows wolf hunting, and officials are considering wolf hunting seasons in Michigan and Minnesota. Democratic and Republican administrations alike, going back to former President George W. Bush, have sought to remove or scale back federal wolf protections first enacted in 1974.

U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country.

95% of Colorado's ICU beds are now full and nearly 40% of hospitals in the state are expected to experience staffing shortages within a week.

Rare ferret found in garage A rare black-footed ferret found in a Colorado garage. (Photo courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife)PUEBLO WEST, Colo. — A black-footed ferret, the rarest mammal in North America, made its way into a Colorado home’s garage. >> Read more trending newsThe home’s owner in Pueblo West called Colorado Parks and Wildlife, who came to remove the animal. Ferret found in garage Rare black-footed ferret found in Colorado garage. (3/4) pic.twitter.com/fWfryRFay7 — CPW SE Region (@CPW_SE) November 10, 2021The black-footed ferret is the only ferret species native to North America, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

Colorado, California and now New Mexico, where the vaccination rate is 73%, all are seeing COVID surges.

Expect full-capacity chairlifts and indoor dining to return to ski resorts this season. But some COVID-era policies, like buying lift tickets online and having your beer on your tailgate, will remain.

The officer had “objectively reasonable grounds” to believe he and others faced imminent danger when he fatally shot bystander John Hurley.

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"Changes in the brain cause the pain to persist. Basically, the brain learns the pain, and what we tried to do in this study was teach people how to unlearn the pain," the lead researcher says.

Two people have died after a car crashed into a pole near Balboa Drive and 8th Avenue in Mesa, police said.

Farms in southwest Colorado are coping with a drought worsened by climate change. It means a big reduction in irrigated water for crops. Conditions this year, one farm manager says, are "the worst."

Colorado's Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is under fire after a new trove of documents revealed he used loopholes to avoid paying federal income taxes for years.Driving the news: A ProPublica report published Thursday found Polis, a tech entrepreneur and former congressman, used donations and financial arrangements to get out of paying federal income taxes in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeOf note: His wealth

Authorities say remains found in August 2020 were just declared to likely be those of West German mountaineer Rudi Moder and they consider the case closed.

The Style Invitational Empress on this week’s eponym contest and on farming out her work to Ken Jennings.

State and local election officials are hoping for a smooth election on Tuesday to demonstrate that voting is secure and tallies are accurate.

A Colorado day care owner convicted of keeping 26 children hidden in the basement of her business in 2019 has received a six-year prison sentence.

Officials say meatpacker JBS Foods Inc. faces about $59,000 in fines following the death of a worker who fell into a vat of chemicals used to process animal hides at one of the company’s meat processing facilities in northern Colorado.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado.

A Colorado company is hoping to usher in a new and more environmentally friendly era of mortuary science that includes the natural organic reduction of human remains.

Colorado's Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man to be elected governor in the United States in 2018, has married his longtime partner and first gentleman Marlon Reis, a writer and animal welfare advocate.

Colorado’s attorney general says a civil rights investigation that began amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that a suburban Denver police department has a pattern of racially biased policing.

President Joe Biden tried to advance his domestic spending plans by touring a renewable energy lab in Colorado on Tuesday.

Police reform advocates say the indictments of three suburban Denver officers and two paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain could be a pivotal step toward meaningful accountability for law enforcement.

The Colorado secretary of state has sued to remove a rural county’s election clerk who is accused of allowing a security breach of voting equipment that the FBI also is investigating.

Jurors have started deliberating in the trial of two former Colorado sheriff deputies accused of causing the death of an intoxicated man by placing him on his stomach and squeezing him into a van to take him to a detox center.

The FBI has joined a criminal investigation into an alleged security breach of a rural Colorado county’s voting equipment.

A former Nevada prison inmate has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences in the long-unsolved 1984 hammer killings of three Colorado family members, including a 7-year-old girl, inside their suburban Denver home.

New data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals July was the hottest month on record for Earth.

A political feud is brewing over Colorado's Democratic secretary of state's investigation into how election equipment passwords from a rural Republican-dominated county got posted on a right-wing blog.

Poor air quality in Denver forced the Broncos to scuttle a stadium practice.

Colorado officials say mudslides caused “extreme damage” to a major interstate, leaving it clogged with boulders and rocks and no word on when it might reopen.

More than 100 people had to spend the night on a highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado.

A video showing a police officer pistol-whipping and choking a Black man during an arrest in a Denver suburb has reignited anger over policing in the community.

New video shows a Colorado police officer using his pistol to beat a man he was trying to arrest, choking him and threatening to kill him.

As the drought worsens across the West, cattle ranchers are among those feeling the pain.

Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities in July, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated.

For the first time in months, COVID-19 is creating chaos around Major League Baseball.

A group of people gathered near downtown Denver on Sunday to call attention to what brought Major League Baseball's All-Star Game to the city in the first place: voting rights.

The FDLE is searching for a missing 1-year-old girl.

The wife of a Democratic political strategist from Colorado is among those missing in the condo building that partially collapsed outside Miami.

A Denver judge says a baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple violated Colorado's anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman.

Jonathan Marchessault, Max Pacioretty and William Karlsson came through with timely goals for the Vegas Golden Knights in their 4-2 series win over Colorado.

Just a year ago, the financial outlook for state governments looked bleak as the coronavirus pandemic shook the entire U.S. economy.

Jonathan Marchessault and Max Pacioretty scored 45 seconds apart in the third period to lift the Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of their second-round playoff series.

Several families and survivors of those killed in March's mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket are demanding the appointment of a special master to help distribute public donations for victims to a centralized account.

Vegas forward Ryan Reaves was suspended two games by the NHL for his roughing and unsportsmanlike conduct on Colorado’s Ryan Graves during the Golden Knights’ 7-1 loss in Game 1 of their second-round series Sunday.

Nathan MacKinnon and Gabriel Landeskog each scored twice as the well-rested Colorado Avalanche made quick work of Vegas with their speed, beating the Golden Knights 7-1 in a skirmish-filled Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.

An Altamonte Springs man was vacationing in Colorado with his wife when he broke parts of his neck and back.

The state says a southwestern Ohio woman is the first winner of Ohio’s $1 million Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize.

A 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in March has made his second court appearance, and a judge scheduled a September hearing to review evidence in the case.

A Colorado mother died after crashing her motorcycle during a memorial ride in honor of her son, who also was killed in a recent motorcycle accident, authorities said.

Ryan Graves had a goal and two assists, Philipp Grubauer made 31 saves, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 5-1 to take a 3-0 series lead in their first-round West Division matchup.

Colorado Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri was suspended for eight games by the NHL on Friday night for a head shot on St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk in Game 2 of a first-round playoff series.

Nathan MacKinnon finished his first career playoff hat trick with an empty-net goal to help the Colorado Avalanche pull away late for a 6-3 win over St. Louis in Game 2 after the Blues avoided a pregame virus scare that nearly sidelined several players.

Prosecutors say a police officer who pushed a 73-year-old Colorado woman with dementia to the ground is facing criminal charges of using excessive force, while a second officer is accused of failing to stop or report his actions.

There seems to be a buzz in the air -- on social media and in person, more and more people are chatting about the places they’ll go, now that the COVID-19 vaccine is readily available and the world of travel is reopening to the masses.

A Colorado man arrested in the death of his wife who disappeared last year has been charged with first-degree murder and tampering with a human body, as well as other evidence in the case.

The FBI has revealed that is investigating the 2017 death of an Asian American teenager in Colorado as a possible hate crime.

A Colorado man suspected in the death of his wife in 2020 is also accused of submitting a fraudulent vote on her behalf for then-President Donald Trump in November’s presidential election.

Tyson Jost scored two of Colorado’s five second-period goals as the Avalanche clinched the West Division and the top overall seed in the NHL playoffs with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings.