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• Fremont County deputies arrested Pueblo escapee

  May 8, 2013 3:57 PM

  CANON CITY - Deputies with the Fremont County Sheriff's office arrested their "most wanted" fugitive Tuesday. Matthew Lee Boyd, 36, escaped from a community corrections facilty in Pueblo last Thursday. The sheriff's office say Boyd had a history of assaulting officers and was known to carry several knives with... more »

• State ranks Pueblo halfway houses least safe in Colorado Play Video

  May 7, 2013 7:56 PM

  PUEBLO - All of the community corrections programs in Pueblo have a history of inadequately following state regulations, consequently increasing the risk to public safety. As recently as September , the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) with the Colorado Department of Public Safety ranked Minnequa Community Corrections and Crossroads... more »

• Three escape Pueblo mobile home fire

  April 16, 2013 10:52 AM

  Pueblo Firefighters said three people were home when a trailer caught fire around 5:00am in the 2000 block of Belmont Avenue. One of the residents tried to put out the fire with an extinguisher but it didn't work. All three did make it out of the home safely. Firefighters... more »

• 27 inmates break out from Brazilian prison

  February 4, 2013 1:27 PM

  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Authorities say 27 inmates escaped from a Brazilian penitentiary crawling through the sewage system. An official at Rio de Janeiro state's Bangu prison complex told media that 31 prisoners attempted the break on Sunday. Within hours four were recaptured still inside the sewage system. It... more »

• Man shot after escaping handcuffs and attacking Denver officer

  August 1, 2012 6:40 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Denver police say one person is dead after a shooting involving an officer. The shooting happened after officers arrested a suspect in east Denver on suspicion of a drug charge and a weapon charge. Police say an officer was taking the suspect to a police station for... more »

• Horse race through the streets of Harlem

  September 19, 2011 6:12 AM

  Manhattan's West Side became the Wild West when a horse broke free during a cowboy event and took off, sparking a chase through the streets of Harlem. The New York Post reports that the horse ran about six blocks before it was corralled by police officers in Riverside Park.... more »

• Antelope escapes New York Zoo

  September 12, 2011 8:37 AM

  NEW YORK (AP) - An exotic antelope has briefly tasted freedom after escaping its enclosure at a New York City zoo. The kudu, a species of African antelope, was spotted by a photographer Sunday. The photographer, Andrew Lichtenstein, tells the Daily News that the animal was sticking to an... more »

• CO hit-and-run driver tried to swim away

  June 26, 2011 6:14 PM

  LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - Police say a woman suspected of causing a fatal crash in Longmont Saturday fled the scene on foot and then tried to swim away from authorities in a nearby lake. Colorado State Patrol believes 32-year-old Lisa Norton is to blame for a head-on collision Saturday... more »

• Prisoner almost goes free, human error blamed

  April 8, 2011 6:23 PM

  A mistake at the Pueblo County Jail nearly let a prisoner go free. Cody Grosvenor, 19, was serving a sentence at the Pueblo Youth Offender System when he was sentenced to six months in the Pueblo County Jail on a harassment charge. At the end of that sentence Wednesday... more »

• Update: Mother, twins escape house fire

  February 18, 2011 6:27 PM

  A mother and her 4-year-old twins survived an intense house fire in Pueblo County this morning. Firefighters say they escaped through a window before the home was destroyed. "We were able to see visible smoke and actually fire from western Pueblo when we responded initially," said Master Deputy Dylan... more »

• Escapee set to enter a plea in Glenwood Springs

  November 23, 2010 1:31 PM

  GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An inmate who escaped from an Arizona prison is due in court on charges stemming from a shootout during his capture in western Colorado. Thirty-six-year-old Daniel Renwick in scheduled to enter a plea Tuesday in Glenwood Springs. Renwick is one of three convicts who... more »

• Man arrested after altercation with deputy

  November 17, 2010 6:46 PM

  A man was arrested early yesterday morning after he allegedly tried to take a deputy's gun. It happened around 2 a.m. near Fontaine and Marksheffel. A Sheriff's Deputy was investigating two men in a vehicle parked in an open field. According to the deputy, one of the men got... 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 »

• Prison official refuses to discuss inmate escape

  September 8, 2010 2:51 PM

  The head of Colorado's prison system has declined to tell Sterling residents exactly how an inmate escaped from a nearby maximum security prison. Ari Zavaras, director of prisons for the Colorado Department of Corrections, told a town meeting Tuesday that Douglas Alward gathered materials inside the prison that helped... more »

• Arizona fugitives appear in court

  August 20, 2010 7:38 PM

  ST. JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) - Two Arizona fugitives who were captured after a three-week manhunt appeared in court Friday, where their bond was set at $1 million each. John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, his cousin and fiancee, were two of the most wanted fugitives in America before their capture Thursday... more »

• Prison chief says state didn't detect prison flaws

  August 19, 2010 3:41 PM

  The Arizona Department of Corrections is transferring more than 100 inmates from a privately operated state prison in Kingman where three inmates escaped July 30. Corrections Director Charles Ryan says the transfers to other prisons result from tighter restrictions being imposed on what inmates can be assigned to the... more »

• Jail escapee sought in northeast Colorado

  August 13, 2010 10:36 AM

  Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Logan County Detention Center in Sterling. The sheriff's office says 36-year-old Joel Elias Ocanas failed to return from work release Tuesday. An arrest warrant has been issued for his arrest. Authorities say Ocanas was being held on charges of... more »

• Escape reported at Sterling jail

  August 12, 2010 7:01 PM

  STERLING, Colo. (AP) - Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Logan County Detention Center in Sterling. The sheriff's office says 36-year-old Joel Elias Ocanas failed to return from work release Tuesday. An arrest warrant has been issued for his arrest. Authorities say Ocanas was being... more »

• Colorado escapee caught in New Mexico Friday

  July 23, 2010 10:15 AM

  New Mexico authorities caught the second of two escaped Colorado jail inmates Friday, less than a day after police officers fatally shot the other in northern New Mexico. A New Mexico Department of Public Safety spokesman, Peter Olson, says 24-year-old Jason Snow was found hiding in an outhouse about... more »

• Cows escape on way to slaughterhouse

  July 22, 2010 2:36 PM

  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Police say 12 cows being driven to the slaughterhouse made a break for freedom when the truck that was transporting them overturned in west Michigan. Police say the bovine escapees hoofed it over highway guardrails, forced traffic detours and caused at least one accident.... more »

• Aspen escapee faces more jail time

  July 15, 2010 8:24 AM

  A man who authorities say ran from an Aspen courthouse after he was sentenced to 3 years in prison is now facing the possibility of 51 years in jail. Authorities say sheriff's deputies arrested 45-year-old Warren C. Carter minutes later outside an art gallery Monday. He had just been sentenced... more »

• Tips to survive a house fire

  May 19, 2010 7:56 PM

  Fire, Fire, Get out! The words you never hope to have to hear or say--but if you were caught in a fire could you survive? "Tragically about 80% of the fire deaths in this country happen in a person's home," said Pueblo Fire Chief Chris Riley. The good news is... more »

• Bull runs wild after escaping Texas rodeo

  March 8, 2010 11:44 AM

  A bucking bull named "Hard Ball" lived up to his name Sunday evening when he ran through the parking lot at Houston's Reliant Stadium. The bull broke out due to a gate malfunction, around 5:20 p.m. and ran through the parking lot, sending families running for cover. "People were... more »

• Police capture escaped zebra in downtown Atlanta

  February 21, 2010 9:23 AM

  An escaped circus zebra has been rounded up in Atlanta after it led police on a chase through the downtown area and along an interstate highway. Rush hour traffic came to a standstill as city police attempted to corral the animal, spotted by witnesses near the Sam Nunn Federal Building... more »

• Colorado lawmakers introduce dozens of bills

  January 13, 2010 5:18 PM

  Colorado lawmakers have introduced dozens of new bills on the first day of their 120-day session. Among the proposals introduced Wednesday are bills that would allow police to confiscate handicapped parking placards that are being misused and barring phone companies from delivering phone directories unless customers request one. Another would... more »

• Wildlife officer loses gator at show and tell

  October 31, 2009 11:26 AM

  Officials say a Florida Panhandle Fish and Wildlife officer lost a 5-foot alligator after bringing it to his daughter's school for show and tell. Searchers scoured a wooded area surrounding the school Friday afternoon. The alligator jumped out of the man's vehicle Friday morning. The animal's mouth was taped.... more »

• 1,400-pound bull drags officers down NJ street

  September 29, 2009 12:17 PM

  Police say a 1,400-pound bull that escaped from a northern New Jersey slaughterhouse dragged officers with a lasso down a street and ran 10 blocks before being captured and sedated. Chief John DeCando, spokesman for Paterson Police's animal control division, says the bull was being unloaded at ENA Meat Packing... more »