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• Investigators search for cause of school explosion

  August 3, 2012 8:52 AM

  ERIE, Colo. (AP) - Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of an explosion at Erie Middle School that injured three workers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into reports the explosion happened when a plumbing contractor was lighting a hot water heater. According to the Boulder... more »

• Two hooded suspects sought in convenient store robbery

  December 11, 2011 12:09 PM

  Robbery investigators and officers from the Colorado Springs Police Department continue to look for two suspects from a robbery at a Western Convenience Store on the city's north side. Currently investigators say 2 male suspects physically assaulted the store clerk and were able to access the cash register before fleeing... more »

• A night in a haunted museum

  May 4, 2011 8:41 PM

  The Museum of Colorado Prisons in Canon City is rumored to be among the most haunted places in the state. Over the weekend, I spent the night with the Canon Ghost Trackers, a local group of paranormal investigators, as they sought to capture evidence of the spirits said to roam... more »

• Tonight at 6:00 a search for ghosts in the prison museum

  May 4, 2011 6:49 PM

  It was built during the Great Depression as the state's first prison for women, but now the building settled along the eastern wall of the Territorial Prison in Canon City houses a museum. Employees there say it's haunted and they've had three different ghost tracking groups come to investigate... more »

• Investigators work to identify body found in South Denver Park

  April 3, 2011 11:32 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Police say a body found by two Denver teens was a male in his late teens or early 20s, but investigators haven't determined his name or the cause of death. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson says the body was found in Denver's Ruby Hill Park on Friday. The... more »

• Experts baffled by alleged killing of Colo. couple

  March 5, 2011 4:20 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Experts say that the stunned citizens of the farm town on Colorado's far eastern plains will one day have a likely explanation for the slayings of a churchgoing couple, allegedly by their 12-year-old son. But resolution is another matter. Paul Mones, a Portland, Ore., children's rights... more »

• Arson investigators on scene of Waynoka fire

  January 31, 2011 7:23 AM

  Investigators with the El Paso County Sheriff's office are looking for clues as to what may have started an overnight fire that burned 3 vehicles outside of an auto body shop east of Colorado Springs. Lt. Matt Gortner of the Cimarron Hills Fire Department says they were first dispatched... more »

• Colorado investigating Saguache County vote changes

  November 12, 2010 6:28 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher has sent two investigators to Saguache (suh-WAHCH') County to find out why vote totals changed during a retally of votes three days after the election. The recount affects two Republican candidates who thought they had won, but are now behind... more »

• CBI receives $1.7 million grant to fight mortgage crime

  October 5, 2010 3:10 PM

  Colorado ranked tenth among the 50 states in mortgage fraud in 2008, and first in 2006, according to the Mortgage Asset Research Institute. Colorado was first among the states in mortgage fraud in 2006. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation plans to crack-down on mortgage fraud by adding six new... more »

• New clue in deadly Calhan plane crash

  August 25, 2010 2:02 PM

  A federal investigator says the propellers weren't working when a twin-engine Cessna crashed near Calhan Monday, killing both men aboard. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Rodi says the Cessna 310 has been moved to a hangar in Greeley where the engines will be examined closely. Authorities say... more »

• Tiny Town train probe focuses on operator

  August 13, 2010 8:54 AM

  State officials are investigating whether operator error is to blame for the derailment of a small train at a children's amusement park in the foothills west of Denver. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment says initial information indicates the engineer of the train at Tiny Town accelerated rather... more »

• CSPD investigating suspicious death

  August 11, 2010 3:54 PM

  Colorado Springs Police Department Homicide Investigators are probing a suspicious death at an apartment complex. An officer was sent to an apartment at the New Horizon complex Wednesday morning to check on a woman. The officer discovered her body. The apartment is in the 4900 block of El Camino,... more »

• Colorado Springs sex offenders probed in Wilson case

  July 13, 2010 9:03 AM

  Dozens of sex offenders have been interviewed as part of the investigation of the death of 12-year-old Kayleah Wilson. Greeley Police spokesman Joe Tymkowych told the Greeley Tribune that they're checking anybody who is a sex offender within a 100 miles of Greeley. Tymkowych told the paper their search... more »

• Victim identified in possible Pueblo Co. murder

  December 10, 2009 8:44 AM

  Pueblo County Sheriff's investigators are probing a suspected homicide that happened early Thursday morning. Pueblo County Coroner James Kramer says the man suffered multiple, external injuries. The Sheriff's Office has identified the victim as 50-year-old Robert Piserchio. News First 5 has learned the victim is the brother-in-law of Fountain... more »