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• Jefferson County jurors deliberate in 2003 murder case

  November 17, 2012 8:00 AM

  GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - Jefferson County jurors in the trial of a man accused of hanging his estranged wife in 2003 will have to weigh key testimony from his twin. Daniel DeWild is charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy in the death of Heather DeWild, who disappeared just before the... more »

• Engagement ring found at husband's grave

  March 21, 2012 5:12 AM

  AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - Volunteer searchers using metal detectors have recovered a Texas woman's engagement ring after she lost it at her husband's grave in Colorado. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports Gayle Zompa of Galveston got her ring back last week. It slipped off her finger four months... more »

• Lawmakers husband suffers heart attack

  February 13, 2012 7:29 AM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - The husband of a Colorado lawmaker who was cleared last week of ethics charges has suffered a heart attack. According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Rep. Laura Bradford says she will be absent from the legislature until her husband, Linton Mathews, is well... more »

• Ex-husband person of interest in package bomb

  January 9, 2012 9:03 AM

  LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) - Police say an ex-husband is a person of interest in a bombing that seriously injured a Colorado woman and her current husband. Authorities say 44-year-old Allyson Stone and 59-year-old Christopher Stone were hospitalized with burns after the blast Saturday in Lafayette. Police say the bomb... more »

• Wife stabs husband

  July 23, 2011 6:14 AM

  A Colorado Springs man was hospitalized after being stabbed in the torso by his wife during a heated argument. The stabbing happened at an address in the 300 block of N. Murray Boulevard at around 11:03 p.m. Friday evening. The victim's wounds are described as serious but not life... more »

• Investigation into stabbed mother and children begins

  July 19, 2011 8:28 AM

  MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Investigators in Oregon are trying to figure out what led up to the discovery of a woman and her four children in their burning home. Each had been stabbed. Police believe the father stabbed them and set fire to the house. Fifty-one-year-old Jordan Criado is... more »

• Woman's husband buried in her garden

  June 27, 2011 3:27 AM

  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Neighbors thought it was odd that Ruth Huber Bostic appeared to talk to herself for years as she tended her garden in Raleigh, N.C. After she died in January 2010, authorities uncovered a gruesome secret beneath the 78-year-old woman's flowerbed: Her husband had been buried... more »

• Mental hospital to free woman accused in slaying

  April 2, 2011 5:18 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A Colorado woman found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of killing her mother-in-law and trying to kill her husband has been granted conditional release from the state mental hospital. The Denver Post reported Saturday that Teresa Lynn, formerly known as Teresa Spitz, will... more »

• Pueblo motorcycle victims identified

  September 13, 2010 1:13 PM

  Authorities have identified a husband and wife who died after being struck on their motorcycle by someone suspected of driving intoxicated. The Pueblo County coroner says the couple killed late Saturday were Raymond Quintana, 48 and Ramona Quintana, 46. Ruben Jimenez-Marquez was arrested following the crash. He is... more »

• Bodies dug up for bereaved woman

  July 22, 2010 11:18 AM

  Police have charged a neighbor with digging up the body of an elderly woman's twin sister after police discovered two bodies in the woman's rural Pennsylvania home last month. Court records show that 62-year-old James Flanagan was charged Wednesday with abuse of a corpse, a misdemeanor, and issued a... more »

• Colorado father of dead infant files for divorce

  June 11, 2010 8:23 AM

  The husband of a Colorado woman accused of smothering their infant son because she believed he was autistic has filed for divorce, according to court documents. Thirty-four-year-old Stephanie Rochester of Superior is charged with first-degree murder in the June 1 suffocation of 6-month-old Rylan. An arrest affidavit says she... more »

• Actress Murphy's husband found dead

  May 24, 2010 8:14 AM

  Police say the husband of deceased actress Brittany Murphy has been found dead, according to the Los Angeles Times. Sgt. Louie Lozano of the Los Angeles Police Department tells the paper that screenwriter Simon Monjack was found dead Sunday night at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Lozano says... more »

• Autopsies planned on 3 found dead in Boulder

  May 18, 2010 9:19 AM

  Autopsies are planned on the bodies of a couple and a man found inside a flooring and fireplace store in Boulder after witnesses outside heard gunshots. Police found the bodies Monday inside Boulder Stove & Flooring. The Boulder County coroner's office identified them as 40-year-old Sean Griffin of... more »

• Colorado woman sentenced for trying to poison husband

  May 14, 2010 3:34 PM

  In Castle Rock, a woman who pleaded guilty to putting a poisonous plant on her husband's salad was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. Douglas County prosecutor Bryan Garrett says Lisa Leigh Allen's actions show she had "malice in her heart" and that her husband could have suffered a... more »

• Sheriff: Man sold wife's sexual services

  March 17, 2010 6:52 PM

  A Minnesota man has been arrested in Chicago and charged with selling his wife's sexual services on Craigslist. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the woman had paid sexual encounters in eight states before she called a national anti-sex trafficking hot line. Dart says she went along with the... more »

• Feds in Boston reviewing '93 mail bomb probe

  February 24, 2010 12:48 PM

  The U.S. attorney's office in Boston is reviewing its 1993 probe of an attempted mail bombing in which authorities questioned a professor recently accused of killing three colleagues in Alabama. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said Wednesday she wants to confirm the office took "appropriate steps" in the investigation. ... more »

• Survivor recalls Alabama professor's shooting spree

  February 16, 2010 11:52 AM

  A survivor of the Alabama university shooting said the professor charged in the attack methodically shot the victims in the head until her gun seemed to jam and she was pushed out of the room. Associate professor Joseph Ng told The Associated Press on Tuesday he was one of... more »

• Springs woman to go on trial in husband slaying

  February 14, 2010 8:37 AM

  A Colorado Springs woman will stand trial in the slaying of her husband less than 30 minutes after police responded to a report that the man had been punched in the face by his wife. Fifty-one-year-old Janet Lynn Hilton faces first-degree and third-degree assault charges in the Nov. 13 slaying... more »

• Groom sentenced for bride's cliff death

  February 11, 2010 3:47 PM

  A man who killed his newlywed wife by throwing her off a cliff in suburban Los Angeles has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Brandon Manai was sentenced Thursday in Torrance. He was convicted in December of first-degree murder for killing 24-year-old Julie Rosas in 2005... more »

• Utah cops to quiz man again over missing wife

  December 14, 2009 10:28 AM

  Utah police plan a second interview with the husband of a woman who went missing a week ago without taking her purse or cell phone. Susan Powell, 28, the mother of two young children, was reported missing Dec. 6 from a Salt Lake City suburb in a case that... more »

• Fort Hood victims remembered

  November 10, 2009 6:12 PM

  One by one, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories even as he denounced the "twisted logic" that led to their deaths. "No faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no... more »

• 88 year-old walks 10,000 miles in husband's memory

  October 25, 2009 12:41 PM

  An 88 year-old woman in Colorado Springs who walks laps around a nursing home in memory of her deceased husband has hit a major milestone: 10,000 miles. Martha Michel walks laps daily around the lake at Namaste Alzheimer Center. Michel started walking the lake with her husband, Lester, who... more »