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• Citizen volunteers would monitor downtown cameras

  March 13, 2012 2:22 PM

  Colorado Springs City Council will take public comment this afternoon on a proposal to install 10 new video surveillance cameras at various points through downtown. Steve Cox, the chief of staff for Mayor Steve Bach took a limited number of questions about the proposal during the mayor's monthly media briefing... more »

• Robberies on the rise in Pueblo Play Video

  January 16, 2012 7:53 PM

  There have been a dozen banks, convenience stores and fast food restaurants robbed in the city of Pueblo in the first two weeks of 2012. At this rate, the community will double the number of those crimes over 2010, the most recent year on record. Detective Glen Fillmore of... more »

• Dozens of bullets, no injuries or arrests Play Video

  August 9, 2011 5:11 PM

  Colorado Springs Police are investigating a pair of early morning shootings. The first happened around 4:00 a.m. in an alley in the 800 block of South Corona St. About 40 minutes later, several shots were fired at a home in the 3400 block of Cochran Drive. No one was... more »

• Thief steals good samaritan's car

  April 16, 2011 10:25 AM

  Police say a suspected car thief in Colorado Springs took advantage of his victim's good nature. The man stopped to help a stranded motorist at around 2:00 a.m. Saturday along Platte Avenue near Iowa. Officers say when he got out of the car, another vehicle pulled up and a... more »

• "It just didn't seem real" - customer shocked by robbery Play Video

  March 28, 2011 7:48 PM

  A Colorado Springs bank that was robbed at gunpoint during the lunch hour was hit for the second time in a month. The American National Bank on Briargate and Rangewood was last robbed on February 28th. Colin Downs was in there today to make a withdrawal. Instead, he got... more »

• Bank customer tackles armed robber Play Video

  September 10, 2010 9:13 AM

  A masked armed robber came charging into a bank in St. Francis, Wisconsin Thursday, but his hold-up was foiled by a customer. Video from the bank shows that the person's face was covered, with a bag in hand. The suspect points a gun at the teller, demanding money. ... more »

• Washinton executes man convicted of woman's murder

  September 10, 2010 8:39 AM

  Cal Coburn Brown was executed early Friday by lethal injection for the rape, torture and murder of a Seattle-area woman in 1991. It was Washington state's first execution since 2001 and the 78th in the state's history. Prison officials say Brown, 52, died after a four-member team injected him... more »

• Gunman fires at woman in Colorado Springs

  September 7, 2010 11:06 AM

  A gunman fired five or six shots at a woman in a Colorado Springs parking lot Monday night. She was not injured. A suspect has been arrested. Colorado Springs Police report that the 19-year-old woman was approached by a man who made threatening comments to her. She told officers... more »

• Judge rejects Colorado death row inmate's appeal

  August 25, 2010 8:24 AM

  A man on Colorado's death row for a quadruple slaying at a restaurant in 1993 has lost his latest attempt to avoid execution. U.S. District Judge John Kane ruled Tuesday that Nathan Dunlap was competently represented, fairly tried and duly sentenced to death. Dunlap was convicted of killing... more »

• Man dies in attack on police station, official says

  August 17, 2010 12:45 PM

  A man died Tuesday after firing shots at a police station in McKinney, Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported a local official as saying. "A suspect is dead," said McKinney city spokeswoman Anna Folmsbee. It was not clear if the man killed himself or was shot by police. ... more »

• Arizona escapee, accomplice may have changed appearance

  August 11, 2010 11:09 AM

  A dangerous inmate who escaped from a Kingman, Ariz., prison has likely changed his appearance. Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for Arizona Fidencio Rivera tells The Associated Press they believe escaped convict John McCluskey and his suspected accomplice, Casslyn Welch, dyed their hair in an effort to elude capture. Rivera... more »

• Monument murder victim identified

  August 10, 2010 4:19 PM

  The El Paso County Sheriff's Office has identified the Big O Tires employee who was gunned down in the Monument store's parking lot Monday afternoon. Bradley Blehm, 50, died from multiple gunshot wounds, the coroner confirmed. Logan McClelland, 18, is being held on charges including first degree murder more »

• FBI backlog is over 3,200 forensic DNA cases

  August 9, 2010 12:46 PM

  The Justice Department's inspector general says the FBI laboratory has a backlog of more than 3,200 forensic DNA cases. The IG says such backlogs can delay legal proceedings and prevent the timely capture of criminals. The backlog has grown 130 percent in a single year to 276 cases... more »

• Update: Mistrial declared in Paul Stark murder trial Play Video

  July 19, 2010 2:56 PM

  A Pueblo judge declared a mistrial in the sexual assault and murder trial of Paul Stark. The lead defense attorney on the case, Kim Karn, was called out-of-state on a family emergency, prompting the ruling. Karn is attending a funeral in Iowa. The trial was in recess until Tuesday, so... more »

• Teller County man convicted of sexually assaulting child

  July 14, 2010 4:55 PM

  Kenneth James Cox, Jr. was convicted earlier this month of 12 charges, including sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Cox was arrested by Teller County Sheriff's Deputies last September. He's scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 20, according to Sgt. Nick Olmsted. more »

• Trial starting in presumed death of missing woman

  July 14, 2010 3:22 PM

  A jury trial is getting under way in Greeley for a man accused in his ex-wife's disappearance and presumed death nearly 15 years ago. Lawyers are expected to make their opening statements Wednesday. John Sandoval is charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance of Kristina Tournai Sandoval. She... more »

• Alleged 'Barefoot Bandit' to face charges in US

  July 14, 2010 8:16 AM

  The American teenager who authorities call the "Barefoot Bandit" is now in the U.S. to face charges after being deported from the Bahamas. An initial court appearance for Colton Harris-Moore is scheduled for today in Miami. It's likely he'll eventually be taken to Seattle, where he was indicted. ... more »

• New information to be released on child's death

  July 8, 2010 9:15 AM

  El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa will release more information Thursday morning about the arrests of the father and girlfriend of a child whose body was found stuffed in the crawl space of a Monument home. Hanif Sims and Monique Lynch were taken into custody in Henderson, Nevada Wednesday... more »

• FBI paid $15K in van der Sloot sting

  June 9, 2010 12:25 PM

  Two federal law enforcement officials say U.S. authorities paid Joran van der Sloot $15,000 in a sting operation and delayed arresting him because they were trying to help build a murder case against him in the 5-year-old unsolved slaying of Natalee Holloway in Aruba. During that delay, Van der... more »

• Autism considered motive in Colorado baby killing

  June 8, 2010 11:25 AM

  Police say a Colorado mom accused of killing her infant son did it because the boy showed signs of autism and she thought his condition would "ruin" her life. Stephanie Rochester, 34, was charged Monday with murder in the June 1 suffocation death of her 6-month-old son, Rylan. According... more »

• Domestic violence charge against Pueblo Police officer dropped

  June 7, 2010 8:57 AM

  Prosecutors have dropped a domestic violence charge filed against a Pueblo police officer after his wife, also an officer, said she wouldn't cooperate with the district attorney's office. Officer Donnie Lambert faced a misdemeanor assault charge. He was arrested March 16. It's not clear when the case was dropped.... more »

• 5 dead after shooting in Miami-area restaurant

  June 7, 2010 8:30 AM

  Miami-area police say a gunman shot and killed four people at a restaurant and wounded three others before killing himself. Hialeah police spokesman Carl Zogby says the shooting last night began in the parking lot of the mall containing the restaurant. The shooting happened after the man was seen... more »

• Colorado murder ordered by drug dealer

  June 4, 2010 8:54 AM

  Federal authorities say a Littleton man who was gunned down after opening his apartment door was ordered killed by an alleged drug dealer in Michigan. Authorities say Franco Gonzalo Sierra-Rodriguez is the suspected hit man and police arrested him Wednesday night in Houston. He is suspected of shooting Joaquin... more »

• Holloway suspect arrested in Peruvian killing

  June 3, 2010 3:16 PM

  Chilean police say they have detained a Dutch man who has long been suspected of killing American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. This time Joran van der Sloot was being sought in the death of a woman in Peru, five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. Police say... more »

• Woman: One-time JonBenet suspect recruiting kids

  June 2, 2010 10:22 AM

  A woman who has a restraining order against the man who falsely claimed to have murdered JonBenet Ramsey says the former suspect is living as a woman and trying to form a cult of little girls to have sex with him. The woman, 19-year-old Samantha Spiegel, spoke Wednesday on... more »

• Mexico judge OKs producer's arrest in Cancun death

  June 1, 2010 8:22 AM

  A judge in Mexico has issued an arrest warrant for a former "Survivor" producer suspected in the killing of his wife while on vacation with their children at a Cancun resort. That's according to the state attorney general in Quintana Roo state, who says prosecutors would initiate extradition proceedings... more »

• Police: shooting death was not home invasion

  May 28, 2010 12:45 PM

  Colorado Springs Police are now saying that a shooting death Thursday night did not involve a home invasion. CSPD Sgt. Steve Noblitt said, "Investigators believe that the man and woman who reside at the house were inside when two men entered the house with the consent of the male... more »

• Feds bust major child porn ring

  May 26, 2010 4:02 PM

  Federal prosecutors in Indianapolis say they've busted an international online child pornography ring and that more than 50 people have been arrested. U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison said Wednesday that the investigation started in 2008 and that authorities kept it quiet to avoid tipping off suspects. The last U.S. suspect... more »

• Colorado man sent to prison for Ponzi scheme

  May 26, 2010 8:12 AM

  A Denver-area businessman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for running a $32 million Ponzi scheme. Fifty-five-year-old Mark J. Jackson was also sentenced Tuesday to five years of mandatory parole. Jackson pleaded guilty earlier this year to a felony charge of racketeering. Prosecutors say he took money... more »

• FBI says violent crime rate down again

  May 24, 2010 9:33 AM

  The FBI says the violent crime rate in the United States is down for the third year in a row. The decline last year amounted to 5.5 percent for violent crime and the rate for property crime was down 4.9 percent. The FBI collected the crime data from more... more »

• Woman sentenced to prison in Elizabeth Smart case

  May 21, 2010 1:34 PM

  A federal judge has ordered a woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping Elizabeth Smart to spend 15 years in prison, with credit for about seven years she's already served. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball said Friday Wanda Barzee will serve the sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in... more »

• Lone thief steals $613 million-worth of art

  May 20, 2010 9:30 AM

  A lone thief stole five paintings worth up to $613 million in total, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist Thursday from a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said. The paintings were reported missing early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern... more »

• FBI searches Northeast homes in Times Square probe

  May 13, 2010 11:17 AM

  The FBI says agents are searching several locations in the Northeast in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb. An FBI spokeswoman said Thursday that there is "no known immediate threat to the public or any active plot against the United States." FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz would not... more »

• Immigrant sentenced in huge Colorado drug smuggling case

  May 11, 2010 8:25 AM

  A 42-year-old Mexican man authorities say helped his brother smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Immigrant Miguel Arriola Marquez was also sentenced Friday to four years of supervised released for conspiracy to possess with intent... more »

• Billings imposes moratorium on medical marijuana licenses

  May 11, 2010 8:22 AM

  A Montana city council has voted for a six-month moratorium on new medical marijuana businesses. The early Tuesday morning vote came after a long evening of public comment and debate, and followed two arson attempts on two Billings medical marijuana businesses. Under the moratorium, business licenses won't be... more »

• Colorado Springs teen will face murder charges in juvenile court Play Video

  May 10, 2010 4:06 PM

  A Colorado Springs middle school boy accused of killing his 9 year-old brother and injuring his mother will be tried as a juvenile. The District Attorney's Office wanted to prosecute Daniel Gudino,14, as an adult. However, Judge David Shakes ruled Monday afternoon that Gudino will remain in juvenile court.... more »