Author: Brandon Buchmeier

The El Paso County sheriff’s deputy involved in the fatal shooting of a suspect in Monument last weekend has been identified as a patrol officer who has been with the office for three years. Deputy Spencer Stringham and a Colorado State Patrol trooper returned fire, killing the suspect, when he fired at least one shot…

Wildlife officials found and euthanized a mother bear early Saturday that attacked a woman in downtown Manitou Springs two days ago. Two cubs also were found and captured and will be cared for at a rehabilitation center until they can be released into the wild, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said. Wildlife officers typically will try…

Two people were shot in separate incidents late Friday night in Colorado Springs.  Officers were called to the 1500 block of North Circle Drive near Dutch Bros. Coffee around 10:50 p.m. Friday night on reports of shots fired. They found one shooting victim, who was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police say. Officers are…

Thirteen protesters have now been cited for their part in blocking Interstate 25 in downtown Colorado Springs during a Black Lives Matter demonstration on June 30, police said in Twitter.  About 8 p.m., around a dozen cars stopped in the middle of northbound I-25 near the Bijou Street exit. Protesters got out in the roadway…

With a high of 95 in the midst of a dayslong heat wave under an unrelenting sun, Friday felt like a record-setting day of heat. It fell a degree short, though, of the record high for the day of 96 set in 1983, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Michael Garberoglio. While records may not…

A 13-year-old boy was arrested Thursday after he allegedly participated in stealing two cars and robbing a family at gunpoint Sunday, Fountain police said. According to a news release from police: The 13-year-old and another suspect crashed a car reported stolen in Colorado Springs in the 600 block of Blossomfield Road in Fountain, then entered…

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has identified the inmate who committed suicide earlier this month as 47-year-old Shawn Meehan. Meehan was found hanging in his cell at approximately 12:19 p.m. on July 3, , according to the Sheriff’s Office. Meehan wasn’t breathing and had no pulse when deputies found him. This is the fifth completed…

A wildfire several miles west of Larkspur on U.S. Forest Service land, known as the East Plum fire, has burned about one acre as of 7 p.m. Thursday, according to Fire Information Coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center Larry Helmerick.  An air tanker dropped retardant on the fire but a containment line has not been set,…