Willie Shepherd.

​Attorney and former Democratic power broker Willie Shepherd was sentenced to one year of probation, domestic violence classes and alcohol monitoring after pleading guilty earlier this month to third-degree attempted assault, a class two misdemeanor.

The plea stemmed from Shepherd's September 14 arrest on domestic violence charges.

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​The jury examining the March 2011 slaying of University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker didn't take long to determine the guilt of Kevin McGregor, the sandwich shop staffer charged in the slaying. Late yesterday, just a day after closing arguments, McGregor was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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CART agency.

​Yesterday, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about a missing child: An eight-year-old had been abducted from the Safeway on 560 Castle Pines Parkway. Patrol deputies and detectives promptly retrieved a video of the abduction from a Safeway surveillance camera, and both the victim and the suspect were located in under three hours. Why didn't this story make more of a splash? Because the eight-year-old was an actor.

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​This weekend, Carl Gruber, 45, was busted at Boulder Municipal Airport with 55 pounds worth of marijuana.

But while media reports on the arrest characterize Gruber as a suspected smuggler, he was been best known prior to this point as a pilot -- an award-winning one.

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​Paul James Kerr, a former KinderCare teacher in Littleton, has pleaded guilty to felony sex assault on a child, as well as two other misdemeanor charges.

His admitted technique -- getting a child to reveal herself by claiming that he was checking her for signs of abuse.

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Josiah Sher.

​News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is seeking the death penalty for Josiah Sher, the alleged trigger man in a double-murder-for-hire case in Castle Rock, doesn't exactly come as a shocker. The slayings of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were about as coldblooded as they come, and Chambers has been just about the only DA in the past decade to earnestly pursue capital cases in Colorado -- which hasn't executed anyone since Gary Davis took the needle way back in 1997.

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​Will Pericak has one of the most sparkling bios of any CU Buff. However, the Boulder Police report about his activities this past weekend is considerably less impressive.

The document, on view below, tells a tale featuring a bar fire, a chest bump and a lot of fuck-yous.

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​That old saw about divorce being hardest on the kids almost turned fatal in the case of Nyesha Hall-Gonzalez, 28.

She's accused of burying a Carmelo Ortiz-Hall, her two-year-old son, under tumbleweeds and leaving him to die in an El Paso County field because of her desire to kill herself -- and her belief that no one would want him if she followed through with this act.

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Alfalfa's.

​Anyone who's ever visited Alfalfa's in Boulder has probably fantasized about eating every delectable item in sight and then gently drifting into a blissful food coma.

According to Boulder Police Department, Anthony Tornowski got to live the first part of that dream -- but not the second.

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​Debe Bell, 59, has been found guilty on 35 counts of animal abuse at an Arvada property known as Six Bells Farm, where she raised rabbits.

Many of the animals appear to have suffered and died in shocking conditions captured in photos on view below.

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