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• Superdome commission eyes change to power system

  February 27, 2013 4:01 PM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The panel that runs Louisiana's Superdome has approved spending up to $100,000 for a study of possible enhancements of the stadium's emergency power systems. Dome manager Doug Thornton says emergency systems worked well during the Super Bowl - when a problem traced to a utility company's... more »

• CSU working on power outage

  January 20, 2013 11:05 AM

  About 1,700 Colorado Springs Utilities customers are out of power Sunday morning. CSU is reporting about 1,700 hundred customers affected in central and northern Colorado springs, near the N. Academy Blvd. area. No word yet on what is causing the outage. CSU is working on the problem now.... more »

• Power outages affect parts of Colorado Springs

  August 2, 2012 5:55 AM

  At least 750 Colorado Springs Utilities customers are experiencing electrical problems this morning due to electrical failure. It's near the Vickers and Dublin. CSU says the repairs could take 3 to 4 hours. more »

• No power means no 4th celebrations for thousands

  July 4, 2012 5:21 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of thousands from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic are preparing to spend the Fourth of July like America's founders did in 1776, without the conveniences of electricity and air conditioning. Power outages from Friday's storm altered planned celebrations in a host of ways and left powerless... more »

• Power outage continues

  May 11, 2012 11:44 AM

  Power is still out for many people along Fountain Blvd. near Mallard and not far from Chelton. Colorado Springs utilities reports there are about 520 customers without electricity. more »

• CenturyLink wireless service outage

  February 6, 2012 3:28 PM

  CenturyLink reports that much of wireless service in Trinidad, Walsenburg and the San Luis Valley is out due to an inadvertent cable cut. This affects wireless, Internet and long distance service. There's no word on when service will be restored, but a crew is working on it. more »

• Water service restored in Widefield

  November 4, 2011 1:40 PM

  Around 650 students at Watson Junior High School in Widefield had to be sent home Friday morning because of a water outage. Wayne Lovelis of the Widefield Water and Sanitation District says his crews were replacing a water main nearby when it cracked overnight. As a result, shortly after... more »

• 43,000 remain in the dark a week after Irene

  September 4, 2011 8:56 PM

  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - More than 43,000 households and business along the Eastern Seaboard that lost power during Irene remain without it a week after the storm. Most were in Connecticut, which had about 17,000 customers without power Sunday evening. Virginia had fewer than 12,000 still in the dark.... more »

• Phone service outage at Canon City Hospital

  September 1, 2011 2:46 PM

  St. Thomas More Hospital in Canon City is experiencing a major phone outage Thursday afternoon. All incoming callers are hearing a busy signal. The hospital's telecommunications team is working diligently to get the phone system fixed as soon as possible. It is unknown how long this outage will last. A... more »

• Pigeon causes power outage in Greeley

  July 30, 2011 12:07 PM

  GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - A pigeon that flew into a Greeley power line left thousands without power and even put lights on the blink at the Weld County Fair. The pigeon collision happened Friday morning when three power lines were damaged after the bird flew into a power line.... more »

• Yahoo email outage frustrates free service's users

  April 28, 2011 3:31 PM

  SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Yahoo's email service has suffered an outage that may be preventing a large number of users from getting into their inboxes. The company apologized for Thursday's breakdown without specifying how many people were affected. Twitter's online messaging service was filled with complaints about the inconvenience.... more »

• Power outage puts short delay on some Easter celebrations

  April 24, 2011 2:41 PM

  Colorado Springs Utilities has notified News First 5 of a massive power outage covering most of Southeastern Colorado Springs. A Utilities spokesperson said this is the largest outage in recent history and the sheer area of the outage was too vast to name all the bordering streets to give an... more »

• Copter for Hugh Jackman film hits power line

  September 21, 2010 10:53 AM

  Authorities say a helicopter used in the filming of the Hugh Jackman movie "Real Steel" snagged a power line in Michigan, causing a brief power outage and closing a roadway. Huron County Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson said that no injuries were reported after the Sunday evening incident in Huron... more »

• Storm cleanup underway in Kansas City

  July 12, 2010 4:39 PM

  Thousands of Kansas City residents started their day without power, after a powerful storm slammed the southside of the city Sunday. Homes were damaged by falling trees or limbs, which also blocked roads. The same area was hit by a devastating tornado in 1957, that killed 37 people.... more »

• Verizon has Pueblo problem

  June 7, 2010 7:10 PM

  Verizon has a problem in Pueblo and doesn't know when it will be fixed. Verizon customers noticed only intermittent service all day Monday. It complicated matters today for Pueblo Police Officers who use Verizon. Others reported fast busy signals when trying to make calls and text service that just... more »

• Close to the Springs, but far from similar

  April 24, 2010 9:26 PM

  Nice weather for Colorado Springs doesn't always mean the same for the region. "My people are telling me its just we down there and I can't believe it because we have a major snowstorm going on up here." says Joe Wuertz, an El Paso County plow driver Wuertz is... more »

• Canon City 911 system down for much of the day

  April 8, 2010 12:12 AM

  Towns and cities across Southern Colorado struggled to deal with downed phone lines and Canon City's 911 system wasn't spared. "People could not get through to us." explains Capt. Allen Cooper with Canon City PD, "We had a major failure on our 911 system. It was essentially out around all... more »

• Power restored in much of storm-battered Northeast

  March 1, 2010 3:55 PM

  The lights are back on for many of the million-plus customers in the Northeast affected by a storm last week that dealt the region snow, rain and hurricane-force winds. New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch on Monday called restoration efforts "the most rapid" he's ever seen. On Friday, about 360,000... more »

• 3 people die in Detroit house fire

  January 5, 2010 11:21 AM

  Three people are dead after an early-morning fire swept through a Detroit home whose power had been out for months. A fourth person survived by jumping from an upstairs window. Family members confirmed the deaths and the escape. A message seeking comment was left with the Detroit fire department. Delores... more »

• Northeast learns lessons from '08 ice storm

  November 4, 2009 12:27 PM

  One of the huge pine trees that surrounded Sieglinde Poegel's home of 42 years crashed through the roof and landed in her living room during the ice storm that crippled much of the Northeast last December. "It sounded like I was in a war again. I lived through World... more »