2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (663+ words) The family of a 26-year-old man shot three times in the back while running from a Colorado Springs policeman has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the police department and the officer. Alex Martinez-Sarmiento was shot early July 5, 2025, outside…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (228+ words) Southbound Interstate 25 was closed for hours Monday afternoon for a crash involving a semitrailer in El Paso County, according to the Colorado State Patrol. State patrol troopers responded to the two-vehicle crash roughly five miles south of the International Pikes…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (218+ words) A crash between a Colorado Springs Fire Department engine and Bustang bus sent nine people to the hospital on Saturday morning, fire officials said. The crash happened at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Tejon and Bijou streets in downtown Colorado Springs…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (272+ words) The Denver Post The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Monday afternoon ordered an immediate evacuation of an area west of Interstate 25, halfway between Pueblo and Colorado Springs, for a small wildfire. The sheriff’s office ordered everyone to evacuate within…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (360+ words) A man who helped stage a cross burning which he says was intended to help elect the first Black mayor of Colorado Springs was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to nearly four years in prison. Derrick Bernard said Mayor Yemi…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (228+ words) A Denver jail deputy arrested after a domestic violence incident is accused of pulling a gun, threatening to harm the man his wife was seeing and destroying a computer and iPad, according to a Colorado Springs Police Department arrest affidavit....