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• Pueblo woman attacked with hammer

  August 7, 2012 12:38 PM

  PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - Pueblo police are trying to find a man accused of attacking a 57-year-old woman with a hammer. Authorities said Bradley Kruse is wanted for investigation of attempted murder and assault. According to the Pueblo Chieftain, Eutophia King of Pueblo suffered skull fractures. Another man in the... more »

• Fast-food employee attacked

  October 25, 2011 7:46 AM

  A Sonic employee is recovering from bruises and a broken nose after being attacked when delivering meals at the drive-in. Colorado Springs police say three teenagers ordered $6 worth of food from a parking stall yesterday. When the employee brought the food, he was hit twice in the face.... more »

• Pomeranian owner to talk about attack by Pit Bull

  May 9, 2011 2:00 PM

  Miss Brandie, an 11-year-old rescued Pomeranian, was attacked last week by a Pit Bull off its leash near a playground in North Shooks Run Park. What the owners want to happen to the Pit Bull and its owner, what their legal rights are, and their surprising view on this controversial... more »

• Close call for Springs college student highlighted on NBC's Dateline

  September 25, 2010 12:47 AM

  Friday night Dateline on NBC featured John Gardner, a convicted sex offender who was released from prison in California, only to rape and murder two teenagers. Gardner made an attempt on another young woman jogging in California, a Colorado Springs college student, but she was able to get away. ... more »

• Medical pot stolen from Colorado home

  August 30, 2010 9:23 AM

  Fort Morgan police say two people wearing masks broke into a resident's home, hit him with a bong-shaped pipe, and stole his medical marijuana. Fort Morgan police Lt. Jared Crone says it's unknown whether the masked people were targeting the home this week because of medical marijuana. Police say... more »

• Hero kitty saves 97-year-old woman from pit bulls

  August 27, 2010 11:15 AM

  Sophie Thomas may own the world's bravest cat. The 97-year-old Harrison, Michigan resident was working in her garden recently when four growling pit bulls surrounded her. One of the dogs lunged at her, biting her on the arm. Sophie screamed and struck back, and as she did her cat... more »

• Meagan recovering from pit bull attack

  July 16, 2010 10:06 AM

  Meagan Garrow is doing better than expected following surgery to repair her face. The six-year-old Colorado Springs girl was attacked by a pit bull Monday. Meagan underwent a four-hour surgery and received hundreds of stitches after the attack. The dog tore open the girl's cheeks, exposing her teeth. It... more »

• Fox mauls sleeping babies in their home

  June 7, 2010 8:16 AM

  Twin nine-month-old girls were being treated at a London hospital on Monday after being mauled in their sleep by a fox. The animal apparently entered the house and climbed stairs before attacking Lola and Isabella Koupparis in their beds while their parents watched television, according to reports. The girls'... more »

• Pueblo clerk beaten during robbery forgives attackers

  February 24, 2010 4:27 PM

  A 67-year old man who was brutally attacked during a robbery last summer says he forgives his attackers. The robbery happened at the northside Wal-Mart in Pueblo, around 2:30 a.m. David Curtiss was working in electronics, when two men approached him and asked to see an iPod. "He reached with... more »

• Justice sought in brutal attack of 94 year old man

  January 27, 2010 2:25 PM

  The son of a 94-year old Pueblo man who was beaten and robbed last weekend is seeking justice. Mick Lindvay organized a news conference at the hospital Wednesday morning to make a plea to the public. "If somebody saw something at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, 1700 block of Stone Ave.... more »

• Colorado arrests for SD attack

  January 21, 2010 2:30 PM

  Authorities in Park County have arrested a South Dakota woman who allegedly stabbed her father and shot her mother last month. South Dakota's Pennington County Sheriff's Office says 22-year-old Casey Eleeson of Rapid City was arrested without incident about 11 p.m. Wednesday at a remote cabin in the Lake... more »

• NATO: Huge cache of bomb material seized

  November 10, 2009 6:05 PM

  In a move that could save the lives of Fort Carson soldiers, international troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer - enough to make up hundreds of roadside bombs, the Taliban's most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced... more »

• Dog nearly became coyote snack

  October 29, 2009 10:23 AM

  Cathy Pragar, Of Anderson Township, Ohio says that only moments separated her Chihuahua, Daisy, from being a nighttime snack Monday night. "If it was a second later, she would have been dead," she said. Pragar said Daisy was in the driveway of her home at about 9 p.m.... more »

• Pack of raccoons mauls 74-year-old woman

  October 5, 2009 11:13 AM

  Animal control officers hope to trap a pack of raccoons that mauled a 74-year-old woman who tried to chase them from her yard. The sheriff in Polk County, east of Tampa, said Gretchen Whitted fell when five raccoons surrounded and attacked her Sunday. She was taken to a hospital... more »