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Abigail Ankeney

Abigail Ankeney is a police, crime and courts reporter covering Boulder County. She loves talking to people and offering a space for people to share their whole stories. When not working, you can find her in the mountains, reading a book in Cheesman Park or playing games with friends. Find her on Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/abi-ankeney.bsky.social.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman appears in a Boulder courtroom on Thursday, May 7, 2026. (Video still via Colorado Judicial Branch/Webex)

Man sentenced to life for murder plus 2,178 years in prison in antisemitic Boulder firebombing

May 11, 2026 at 7:04 p.m.

"You chose to victimize these people because they were members of the Jewish community."

Man who died in Boulder Canyon Drive crash identified as 87-year-old from Fort Collins

May 5, 2026 at 9:49 a.m.

The person who died after their car went down an embankment off Boulder Canyon Drive on Monday was identified as an 87-year-old man from Fort Collins by the Boulder County...

Rachel Amaru, right, hugs Rachel Cohen during a remembrance program at the Boulder Jewish Festival on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on Sunday, June 8, 2025. Cohen was on the pedestrian mall a week earlier during the antisemitic terror attack with her two kids. (Helen H. Richardson / The Denver Post)

Suspect in Boulder Pearl Street Mall firebombing to plead guilty to state charges, attorneys say

May 4, 2026 at 2:07 p.m.

Mohamed Soliman, 46, faces more than 184 charges in Boulder County District Court in connection with the June 1 attack that killed one woman and injured 29 others.

David Wilcock. (Video still via YouTube)

Alien researcher and documentarian David Wilcock dies at 53 near Nederland

April 23, 2026 at 12:41 p.m.

Alien researcher and YouTuber David Wilcock is also known for appearing in 81 episodes of "Ancient Aliens," according to IMDb.

The Larimer County Jail. (Reporter-Herald file)

7th suspect arrested after new indictment in metro Denver theft, burglary ring

November 18, 2025 at 9:53 a.m.

A seventh person under indictment in a suspected burglary ring was arrested after a grand jury superseded its earlier indictment.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, far left, appears in a Boulder courtroom on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Soliman is charged with 118 charges in district court in a June 1 Molotov cocktail attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. He also faces 12 federal hate crime charges. (Video still via Colorado Judicial Branch/Webex)

Suspect in Boulder antisemitic terror attack pleads not guilty to more than 100 charges

November 5, 2025 at 11:27 a.m.

The man accused of the June antisemitic firebombing on the Pearl Street Mall that led to the death of one woman and injured 14 people and a dog pleaded not...

Residents from the area arrived in a farm field east of Longmont to look at the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 629. (Hildreth Studio / Longmont Museum)

How 2 Colorado men remember Flight 629 bombing 70 years later

October 30, 2025 at 8:42 a.m.

Saturday marks the 70th anniversary of the day the United flight exploded over Weld County, killing 44 before crashing and spreading debris across six square miles east of Longmont, an...

Boulder County Sheriff’s Office The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office reported an injured hiker was located and rescued above Boulder Falls about 10:30 a.m. Monday. (File photo)

DA: Arrests halt ‘massive crime ring’ in Colorado

October 22, 2025 at 7:42 p.m.

In all, the crime ring is suspected of stealing about $828,000 in property and doing $39,880 in property damage, from January through September.

Firefighters extinguish hot spots following a fire in a Caribou Village Shopping Center in Nederland on Thursday morning. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

Predawn fire destroys Nederland shopping center

October 10, 2025 at 12:24 p.m.

The fire fully engulfed both floors of the shopping center, a strip mall that included O'Neill Rocky Mountain Art, the Kaleidoscope Fine Arts Gallery, the Tres Gringos Restaurant, the Oriental...

Then-Longmont Fire Lt. Troy Bohm tests equipment used in resuscitation efforts during cardiac arrest. Bohm, now a fire battalion chief, was arrested last week on suspicion of sexual assault in Loveland. (Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer)

Longmont Fire battalion chief arrested on sexual assault charges in Loveland

September 8, 2025 at 5:35 p.m.

The Longmont Fire Service Battalion Chief was arrested and accused of sexual assault, strangulation and child abuse on Thursday.

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