Janelle Finch

3 days ago | 9news.com | Janelle Finch

DENVER — Mary Kate Sweeney had just returned to Denver with her AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team, preparing to deploy to Oklahoma for a new service project, when she learned her year of national service was coming to an unexpected end. “During our lunch period, they just called us in and told us the program was over and we’d be leaving that night,” said Sweeney, who had been serving in the Southwest Region on the Water 6 team.

2 weeks ago | 9news.com | Janelle Finch

After the Nuggets won the NBA championship, Malone got a tattoo of Maxie the Miner, one of the Nuggets' mascots. Michael Diaz, the artist who did the tattoo, hopes Malone will still look back on it with appreciation. "When people get tattooed like that, it’s more on a personal level with them," Diaz, the owner of Triple W Tattoos, said. "He brought us our first championship so it’s all in meaning for him. It wasn’t something he just decided one day I’m going to go get Maxie the Miner.

2 weeks ago | 9news.com | Janelle Finch

AURORA, Colo. — Ryan and Caitlin Holt said they're starting over, not even with the clothes on their backs. "All of this is generous, generous donations," Ryan said, looking around his new apartment. The couple and their 6-year-old son, Ben, are living in Parker, after a fire destroyed their home. They had been living off of Hampden Avenue and Chambers Road in Aurora for six years. "It's been really, really rough," Ryan said.

2 weeks ago | 9news.com | Janelle Finch

BOULDER, Colo. — Yeva Smilianska testified Thursday that she wasn't drunk at the time of the July 29, 2023 crash that killed 17-year-old cyclist Magnus White and that she has had difficulty processing the incident since it happened. Smilianska claimed that as a bartender at 3's Bar in Longmont, she was not allowed to drink on the job. She claimed on the night of July 28, 2023, she was working and left work sober around 3 a.m. on the morning of the crash.

1 month ago | abc10.com | Janelle Finch

STRASBURG, Colo. — When his great-grandmother, Sharon Lewis, fell and needed help, 3-year-old Bridger Peabody braved the dark. At the time, Lewis said she had just brought Bridger home to Strasburg from Children's Hospital, where his older sister was getting treatment after hurting her finger. Lewis said she offered to watch Bridger while his family stayed with his sister. "We went up to the backyard, dark backyard," Lewis said. "We did really good.