A Subway "sandwich artist” fought off a stickup artist in Colorado Springs on Thursday evening, chasing the robber into the parking lot and then tackling him in a successful effort to...Full story
Public Safety Team
John Ensslin, Carlyn Mitchell, Lance Benzel and Maria St. Louis-Sanchez cover breaking news, crime, and courts.
A man who brought attention to homeless veterans in Colorado Springs has been granted a conditional bond as he fights federal misdemeanor charges of lying about having military decorations.
Thirty-two-year-old Richard Glen Strandlof was in the... Full story
A Black Forest man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of arson, accused of burning down his former home in July rather than allowing it to be taken by the bank after it had gone into foreclosure.Mark Rance, 48, is being held in the El Paso County... Full story
Jomar Falu-Vives’ AK-47 was the weapon used to kill two people as they were hanging yard sale signs, his defense attorneys conceded Tuesday.
They said it was his Chevrolet Tahoe that was used in the drive-by shooting on June 6, 2008, that... Full story
Each victim is a face frozen in time, haunting investigators whose job it is to bring their killers to justice decades after the trail has gone cold.The Gazette in cooperation with the Colorado Springs Police Department runs a weekly feature called... Full story
A Fort Carson soldier facing trial on child pornography charges was arrested last week on new allegations: trying to kill the woman who turned him in.
Michael Lee Eichsteadt, 28, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder after his... Full story
A pedestrian-car accident sent one man flying through the air 30 feet late Monday night. Police say that Thomas Patterson was crossing the road in the 1600 block of West Colorado Avenue and was struck by the right side of an oncoming... Full story
Janet Hilton beat up her elderly husband, fled the house while police came to investigate, and then returned to stab him, her arrest affidavit said.
Daniel Hilton, 70, died Monday from injuries he suffered during Friday night’s altercation;... Full story
Colorado Springs police officers are investigating a Sunday night stabbing on the city’s west side.
According to police, a man who was not identified was stabbed and robbed about 8:45 p.m. near the intersection of 19thand Uintah streets.
He... Full story
A Colorado Springs city councilman is driving a cost-cutting effort that could put the brakes on a police perk: take-home government vehicles.
Hoping to ferret out an additional $1 million from the Police Department’s 2010 budget to restore... Full story
A Colorado Springs municipal judge Friday postponed a trespassing trial for Douglas Bruce and a fellow anti-tax activist after prosecutors argued the jury pool had been tainted by a man handing out leaflets in front of the courthouse.
The leaflets,... Full story