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3/29/2013

Hearing still on for reporter in Aurora shootings

Hearing still on for reporter in Aurora shootings

Posted 5:48 PM 3/29/2013 by Patricia Collier

DENVER (AP) - A squabble between prosecutors and defense lawyers in the Colorado theater shootings won't delay a hearing to question a New York-based reporter about her confidential sources for a story about the suspect.In an order made public Friday, the judge said the hearing for Fox News (More)

USAFA Airman faces sex assault charges

3/28/2013

Illegal handicap parking comes with hefty fine, dose of shame

Posted 9:14 PM 3/28/2013 by Jacqui Heinrich, jheinrich@koaa.com

Did you know there's a team of volunteers with the Colorado Springs Police Department whose only job is to find people illegally parked in handicap spots? Last year they wrote 800 tickets for violations, and they say that's only a drop in the bucket compared to the number of violations that (More)

Prosecutors in James Holmes' case ask for more time to consider deal

Holmes may plead guilty to avoid death penalty

Gulf oil spill trial resumes Tuesday

3/27/2013

Demonstrators return to Supreme Court as justices hear second gay marriage case

Demonstrators return to Supreme Court as justices hear second gay marriage case

Posted 7:44 AM 3/27/2013 by Adam Atchison

WASHINGTON (AP) - For a second day, demonstrators are outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear a case involving gay marriage. Today's crowd is somewhat smaller than yesterday's, and includes mostly gay marriage supporters holding American and rainbow flags. Today's (More)

3/22/2013

Woman paralyzed in shooting sentenced to 6 years

Woman paralyzed in shooting sentenced to 6 years

Posted 12:11 PM 3/22/2013 by Alyse Rzemek

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - A woman who was paralyzed when she was shot by a deputy sheriff has been sentenced to six years in prison. Britney Thurman was driving a stolen truck in 2009 when she tried to speed off. Jefferson County deputy Art Peterson was on foot and shot the woman when (More)

3/21/2013

High speed chase ending in shoot out near Dallas may be connected to DOC Director shooting

High speed chase ending in shoot out near Dallas may be connected to DOC Director shooting

Posted 4:29 PM 3/21/2013 by Jacqui Heinrich, jheinrich@koaa.com

A high speed police chase ending in a shoot-out near Dallas this morning may be related to the killing of the Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements this past Tuesday.

Local media affiliates report a suspect, whose identity has not been released, shot a (More)

Man pleads not guilty to slapping toddler on plane

Plea deal reached for Gilbert Sanchez, accused of killing three Alamosa teens in wreck

3/20/2013

Former El Paso deputy pleads guilty to fraud

Former El Paso deputy pleads guilty to fraud

Posted 11:38 AM 3/20/2013 by JD Downing

DENVER (AP) - A former El Paso County deputy sheriff has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money-laundering charges.U.S. Attorney John Walsh said Wednesday that David Hawkins of Colorado Springs pleaded guilty last week.Prosecutors say Hawkins collected $1.2 million from (More)

3/19/2013

Minnesota woman loses music downloading appeal

Minnesota woman loses music downloading appeal

Posted 3:31 PM 3/19/2013 by Juice Godfrey

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a Minnesota woman who has been ordered to pay record companies $222,000 for the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music. The justices didn't comment Monday in letting stand the judgment against Jammie (More)

Reporter in Colo shootings seeks delay in hearing

3/18/2013

Reporter in Aurora shootings fights order to testify

Reporter in Aurora shootings fights order to testify

Posted 1:54 PM 3/18/2013 by JD Downing

(AP) - A Fox News reporter in New York is appealing a judge's order to appear in a Colorado court to identify her sources for a story about a notebook that movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes sent a psychiatrist before the killings.Reporter Jana Winter's attorney says appeal (More)

3/17/2013

Kansas court rules on legality of out of state marijuana

Kansas court rules on legality of out of state marijuana

Posted 11:17 AM 3/17/2013 by Matt Stafford

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Marijuana that someone obtained legally elsewhere is still illegal in Kansas, and a person who brings it into the state can be prosecuted under Kansas law, the state Court of Appeals has ruled.The decision came in the case of a Troy James Cooper, a Colorado man who (More)

3/16/2013

Airline bomber set to be released from prison

Airline bomber set to be released from prison

Posted 9:17 AM 3/16/2013 by Matt Stafford

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man convicted of a 1982 terrorist attack aboard a Pan Am jetliner is days away from being released from federal prison.Mohammed Rashed has been in custody for more than two decades in connection with the bombing aboard Pan Am Flight 830. A Japanese teenager en (More)

3/15/2013

Okla. woman pleads not guilty to child trafficking

Okla. woman pleads not guilty to child trafficking

Posted 12:34 PM 3/15/2013 by JD Downing

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma woman accused of offering her children for sale to raise money to bail her boyfriend out of jail has pleaded not guilty to child trafficking charges.Online court records show 22-year-old Misty VanHorn pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Sequoyah County (More)

3/13/2013

Rant gets murder defendant ejected from courtroom

Rant gets murder defendant ejected from courtroom

Posted 9:03 PM 3/13/2013 by Juice Godfrey

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A man charged with strangling an 87-year-old woman and setting her body on fire has been forcibly removed from a Colorado Springs courtroom after refusing to enter a plea and erupting in a rant. Twenty-one-year-old Marcus Smith was supposed to enter a (More)

Threats in Colo. theater shootings viewed as hoax

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