A former LaSalle police officer who was charged with murder pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Monday after a Weld County jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict over two days of deliberation.

Police officers in the western part of the Denver metro area on Tuesday shot a suspected criminal who they say was armed. That's according to a Lakewood police spokesman, who said the suspect was taken to the hospital afterward with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.