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• Firefighters Investigate String of Fires in Neighborhood Play Video

  March 29, 2013 9:45 AM

  An overnight fire in El Paso County left a home destroyed and investigators say it could be connected to a string of fires in the neighborhood. The home is located on Kachina Drive in the Cimarron Hills area of El Pasco County. Firefighters said the home caught fire just... more »

• Mike checks out the Wild West Food Tour Play Video

  November 10, 2011 8:17 PM

  Mike Daniels visited Old Colorado City tonight for Mike and Mike's Neighborhood for the Wild West Food Tours. For $49 per person, participants get to sample food from some of the best restaurants in town and hear the history of this part of town. The company also does tours... more »

• Local agency "building community"

  September 10, 2011 11:42 PM

  A Southern Colorado community organization is quietly doing their part to help others help themselves. For the past 47 years the Pikes Peak Community Action Agency has been working with locals to help achieve their goals in the midst of hardships. One of their recent success stories comes... more »

• Hopping and helping

  September 10, 2011 4:01 PM

  A local church is hoping to feed the 5,000 with a food drive at their semi-annual block party. Members of the Wilson United Methodist Church on Flying W Ranch Road started collecting food donations Saturday morning in hopes of donating over 5,000 pounds to local pantries. The food drive... more »

• Gun shot sensors in neighborhoods

  August 10, 2011 8:18 AM

  The Aurora City Council is considering gunshot sensors in some of its most violent neighborhoods. Officials say the system could pinpoint the origin of a gunshot more accurately and more quickly than someone calling 911. According to the Denver Post (http://bit.ly/qd8y2i ), councilman Ryan Frazier says northwest Aurora... more »

• Death sentence for momma bear and cubs

  September 2, 2010 2:02 PM

  The Division of Wildlife tranquilized three bears and hauled them out of the Broadmoor neighborhood Thursday afternoon. The bears will be euthanized. The momma bear and her two cubs got into a home on Sanford Rd., sending a maid scrambling for safety. She locked herself in a bathroom, from... more »

• Snake escape! Atlanta Zoo loses rattler

  August 31, 2010 4:44 PM

  Georgia wildlife officials will inspect an Atlanta zoo after a venomous rattlesnake was able to escape and slither around a city neighborhood. Zoo staff noticed the female tiger rattlesnake was missing during a routine check late Friday. The snake was found dead Monday after a nearby property owner killed... more »

• Neighborhood dispute over solar panels

  August 27, 2010 11:07 AM

  A Pennsylvania couple is seeing red thanks to their neighbor's efforts to go green. Jim and Judith Armour bought their window-filled house 15 years ago so they could let in sunlight. In late May a second blinding sun began beaming directly into their house from across the street... more »

• Zebras run loose in California community

  August 16, 2010 10:39 AM

  California sheriff's deputies worked to corral two zebras roaming the streets of the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael Saturday night. At least one of the animals was wounded when it ran into traffic, striking a car. Tim Tanaka took charge by roping off an area to keep the animal... more »

• And you thought your neighbors were wild

  March 24, 2010 11:54 AM

  A Florida community is getting ready for a big cat battle. Some people in Brevard County are upset that a man will be moving into a new house with his 50 tigers and lions. The man and his unusual pets were recently booted out of his current home in... more »

• New information: bizarre HazMat incident had Colorado Springs street blocked

  November 17, 2009 11:43 AM

  A Colorado Springs street is back open after a bizarre HazMat situation forced its closure in Colorado Springs Tuesday morning. A man attempting to commit suicide barricaded himself in a vehicle with the chemical Hydrogen Sulfide. A HazMat crew suited up in full gear to get the man out.... more »

• Pipe bombs, rifles found in car stopped in Connecticut

  October 7, 2009 12:50 PM

  Police in Connecticut say they have arrested a man after stopping a car full of explosives in a New Haven residential neighborhood. Authorities have not released the man's name. Officers say they stopped the car Tuesday night and found pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank. It wasn't clear if... more »

• Police: Pilot used plane to stalk ex-girlfriend

  September 25, 2009 2:27 PM

  Police have arrested a pilot who they say stalked his ex-girlfriend by repeatedly flying his plane low over her house. Police in Concord, in northern California, say Tom Huey made several low passes over a residential neighborhood Wednesday evening. Sgt. Tiffiny Leftwich told the Contra Costa Times that... more »