Stabbing Victim Found At Springs Apartment Complex
Police are looking for a suspect who stabbed a man at a Springs apartment complex Saturday afternoon. Police say they were called to 1205 S. Chelton and found a man who had been stabbed. He was taken...

Cheyenne Mountain Begins Drug Testing
Cheyenne Mountain High School plans to begin voluntary drug testing later this month, if enough parents sign their students up to participate. The voluntary program would subject athletes or students...

Man reportedly selling Kleenex door to door
The Colorado Springs Police Department is warning people about some suspicious characters trying to tissue door to door. People have called the police department with reports of young Hispanic male i...

Wounded Warrior flies at balloon classic
Posted : Sep 4, 2010 2:14 PM Wounded Warrior flies at balloon classic Neil Duncan has a simple goal in mind. "We came out to ride a hot air balloon." An Afghanistan veteran and Army paratrooper,...

Crews Battle Grass Fire in Eastern El Paso County
Firefighters are have put out a small grass fire off Highway 24 near Peyton. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office says the call originally came in as a structure fire and there were reports that a bar...

Officers Defend Killing Bears in Colorado Springs
State wildlife officials are defending decisions to kill six bears this week that busted into two different Colorado Springs homes. Wildlife officers killed a mother bear and her two cubs after the c...

Four People Arrested Overnight at DUI Checkpoint
Four people were arrested overnight for DUI during a roving sobriety checkpoint. The Colorado Springs Police Department and the Fountain Police Department set up checkpoints at two different location...

Police Investigating Suspicious Calls
Police are investigating some suspicious calls that they have received for the past three days. Police say on September 1st, 2nd and 3rd they received one call a night regarding a suspicious party. A...

Woman Killed When Jeep Rolls Down Mountain
The Colorado State Patrol says a woman is dead after her car went off a road and crashed down a mountainside. The patrol says the accident occurred late Friday afternoon near Georgetown Lake.

Balloon Classic lifts off in Colorado Springs
Posted : Sep 4, 2010 8:22 AM The Balloon Classic has started in Colorado Springs this morning, and features a number of colorful balloons, and the colorful people who ride in them. We have photos ...

Broncos' Elvis Dumervil says he's out for season
Posted : Sep 4, 2010 8:05 AM DENVER (AP) - Elvis Dumervil, the NFL's leading top sacker, says he won't play at all this season. The Denver Broncos' pass rusher underwent surgery last month to repa...

Homeless man gets 366 years for assaulting Denver-area girl
Posted : Sep 4, 2010 7:07 AM CASTLE ROCK (AP) - A homeless man convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in a Denver-area parking lot has been sentenced to 336 years to life in prison. D...

Bullets strike Pueblo home 5 times
A Pueblo woman found five bullet holes in her house, and one of the bullets cut the water line to her air cooler. The house is located on Churchill Road on the southern edge of the Belmont neighborho...

Only 4 arrested for drunk driving Friday night
Posted : Sep 4, 2010 6:32 AM Only four people were arrested when Colorado Springs police and Colorado State Patrol troopers set up two drunk-driving checkpoints in the Colorado Springs area Friday ...

Assault on teen brings 336-year sentence
A man who attacked and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in the parking lot of the Lone Tree Library was sentenced Friday to 336 years in prison. The man, 27-year-old Scott James Sylvia, was foun...

Two left in the running for Aurora city manager job
The Aurora City Council on Friday announced it has narrowed the field of city manager candidates to two: Nancy Freed, the city's interim manager, and George "Skip" Noe, a management consultant from Co...

CU, CSU rivalry divides families, spans generations
Joseph Salazar is a CU grad, while his wife, Jessica Salazar, graduated from CSU. The two lawyers declare war all week before Saturday's gridiron showdown. Their daughter, 2, was to attend both school...

Behave, admonishes Denver's top cop
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman has a message for Colorado State and University of Colorado football fans: Be nice or leave. Whitman sent a letter to both schoo...

Sixth Arvada police officer resigns in excessive-force case
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } Another member of the Arvada Police Department has resigned in connection with a case involving alleged use of excessive force. The resignation was announced at a ...

Colorado Supreme Court finalist Prince applies diligence to his cases — and his barbecue
Colorado Springs District Judge David Prince also judges at barbecue contests — where, supporters say, he's as hardworking as he is in court. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)

Balloon-boy family alights in Florida
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } FORT COLLINS — The family at the center of the balloon-boy hoax has moved out of the house where the fateful trip began, leaving Colorado for Florida. Richar...

Mullen grad tells his story to show history isn't destiny
Tommy Watson, principal at Palmer Lake Elementary in Brooklyn Park, Minn., greets students and families Wednesday. Watson returned to Denver to speak at J.K. Mullen High School about overcoming a roug...

Woman killed when Jeep rolls down mountain
A woman was killed about 4 p.m. Friday near Georgetown Lake when the Jeep she was in fell about 1,200 feet, according to the Colorado State Patrol. The woman was driving on a rocky dirt Forest Servic...

More teens arrested in assault on jogger
GREELEY — Greeley police have arrested more teenagers in the assault of a jogger in a city park. Police Sgt. Joe Tymkowych said Friday that seven teens have been arrested in an Aug. 24 assault ...

Child trampled by moose doing well at home
The 2 1/2-year-old boy trampled by a female moose Thursday at Shadow Mountain Reservoir in Grand County is "doing well" and has been released from Children's Hospital, his family said Friday. "We're ...

Longmont mayor upbeat about cancer prognosis
Longmont Mayor Bryan Baum is taking a medical leave from his duties to be treated for kidney cancer. Baum, 52, said Friday he will not undergo any chemotherapy or radiation therapy because the 6-inch...

Maes officially on Colorado ballot, despite outcry from past supporters
Gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, left, of the American Constitution Party, listens to Republican candidate Dan Maes' response during a debate Thursday in Denver. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denve...

High-tech help for endangered fish
At the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam on the Colorado River near Rifle, a new ‘passive integrated transponder' (PIT) tag system is now monitoring the movement of endangered fish that are PIT tagged.

August rainfall recorded above average in Breckenridge
BRECKENRIDGE — Local rainfall in August was about 35 percent above average, bringing the weather year's precipitation to date within a hundredth of average, said Rick Bly, National Weather Servi...

Duck races kick off today in Breckenridge
Thousands of people flocked to downtown Breckenridge for the Great Rubber Duck Race to benefit The Summit Foundation last September. Approximately 9,500 rubber-winged fowl migrated their way down the ...

Party more, waste less
Contact the High Country Conservation Center (HC3) in Frisco at (970) 668-5703 to order a Zero Waste Party Pack. HC3 generally needs two to three days' notice for small events, and bins are available ...

Frisco creates a walking map of Main Street
To take a cell-phone guided walking tour of Frisco's Main Street, call (970) 281-3001. At the prompt, enter your stop number (from the map). Use the stop number directory and the map as your guide.

Vail Resorts touts new technology
DENVER — How does a ski resort company incorporate state-of-the-art technology without disrupting a business that revolves around the natural world and environment?They do it seamlessly, so the ...

"What if" scenario actually was the case for concerned Springs parents
Posted : Sep 3, 2010 10:46 PM Clifton Morgan has been upset since Wednesday, when he found out his child's legs were bound together by a teacher while in class at Bates Elementary School Monday. "...

Funeral planned for girl found dead in Monument
Next week family and friends will say goodbye to Genesis Sims. Sims was the little girl found dead in the crawlspace of a Monument home back in May.The little girl's mother Jopetia Garretson has made ...

New Foot Bridge for Students
A foot bridge used by dozens of elementary kids and their parents was a worry for a Colorado Springs neighborhood. "It truly was a safety hazard, the boards were just eaten away and rotted away," sai...

Republican Chairman 'disappointed' Maes won't quit
The State Republican Chairman says he's "very disappointed" that Dan Maes will continue his run for governor of Colorado. "Revelations before and especially after the August 10 primary have raised ser...

Court throws out $926 million Rocky Flats award
The demobilized Rocky Flats site sits silent with only a few security staff and environmental monitoring equipment active at the former nuclear weapons facility. The once high security entry gate has ...

Fort Carson soldier promoted posthumously
FORT CARSON, Colo.—A Fort Carson soldier from Nebraska who was killed in Afghanistan has been posthumously promoted. The Defense Department said Friday that 24-year-old Mark A. Noziska of Papill...

Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo both staying in the governor's race
Dan Maes will continue running for governor, his campaign said today, despite calls from the GOP establishment and Tea Party groups to drop out. Tom Tancredo also reiterated this afternoon that he is ...