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Max Levy

Max Levy is a breaking news reporter at The Denver Post. Before joining the Post in 2024, he wrote for Sentinel Colorado, based in Aurora, as well as the Loveland Reporter-Herald and the Holyoke Enterprise. Max fell in love with Colorado while studying journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. When he's not on the breaking news desk, Max enjoys exploring Colorado's mountains and trails, and getting better at chess.

Card skimmers planted at north Aurora truck stop last week, police say

June 7, 2025 at 5:59 p.m.

Police say the skimmers were installed on four gas pumps at the Flying J Travel Center in north Aurora between May 25 and May 31.

The lights of an ambulance illuminate a Longmont Police Officer as the Colorado State Patrol investigates a fatal crash involving two vehicles near Francis Street and Colo. 66 on Wednesday.
Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer Dec. 30, 2015

1 dead, 2 injured in crash that closed U.S. 285 in Jefferson County

June 7, 2025 at 4:44 p.m.

The fatal crash near Conifer involved two passenger vehicles and a delivery truck, according to the Elk Creek Fire Department.

Police ask for public’s help to crack 2014 stabbing death of Aurora man

June 7, 2025 at 1:51 p.m.

Aurora police have yet to identify the killer of Terrell Ephriam, who would have celebrated his 33rd birthday Saturday.

Aurora police seek leads in 2024 drive-by nightclub shooting that killed 1

June 7, 2025 at 1:48 p.m.

Rafael Rivera-Velez, 25, was killed and another person was wounded in the Aug. 11, 2024, shooting at the Colfax Avenue club.

Iraqi refugee Ahmed Zainuldeen, 23, was identified by his employment case worker as the man killed overnight Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in a carjacking in the 7400 block of East Harvard Avenue in Arapahoe County. (Courtesy of Zainuldeen family)

Teen gets prison for fatal 2023 carjacking of Iraqi refugee near Denver

June 7, 2025 at 12:38 p.m.

Raydon Collins, 19, was sentenced May 30 to five years in Colorado’s Youthful Offender System and 13 years in prison.

15-year-old girl fatally shot at ‘pop-up party’ after group brawl, Aurora police say

June 6, 2025 at 12:38 p.m.

Police played a blurred video of the fight that preceded the shooting, which a division chief said was “shocking” and was part of a trend in juvenile violence stemming from...

First responders are pictured in front of a home that caught fire east of Longmont, near Colo. 119 and Weld County Road 7, early in the morning of Friday, June 6, 2025. One person was injured and several others were displaced by the fire. (Courtesy of Mountain View Fire Rescue)

Woman found dead after house fire east of Longmont

June 6, 2025 at 2:29 p.m.

A woman was found dead inside of a home east of Longmont that was engulfed by fire early Friday morning, injuring and displacing others, police and firefighters say.

Man charged with murder in fatal Adams County house party shooting

June 6, 2025 at 8:46 a.m.

Daniel Ramirez Ayala, 20, is accused of a shooting that left one dead at a house party Sunday.

Adams County deputies find married couple dead in home after shooting son-in-law

June 6, 2025 at 2:10 p.m.

Sheriff's deputies found two adults dead in an Adams County house after they shot a knife-wielding man Friday morning.

Cars spray large amounts of standing water at an intersection along York street in Denver on May 6, 2025. Rain is forecast for the rest of the day into tomorrow morning. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Rain prompts flood warnings, washes out road into Colorado Springs park

June 6, 2025 at 7:12 a.m.

Parts of Douglas and Elbert counties faced flash flood warnings Thursday, and rain washed out North Cheyenne Canyon Road in Colorado Springs.

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