NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great. The Journal and other news outlets continued to press Friday for the […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Records show that former Gov. John Hickenlooper pushed state corrections officials to hire a retired FBI agent to review the 2013 murder of Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements and state policies. The Gazette reports that the retired agent was paid nearly $40,000 and submitted his findings to the state in […]

DENVER — A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Colorado says the 2013 assassination of Colorado Prison Chief Tom Clements was a hit job ordered by a white supremacist gang that prosecutors refused to prosecute. The suit was filed by Juan San Agustin, the former chief inspector for the El Paso County Sheriff’s […]

DENVER — A retired detective tells the FOX31 Problem Solvers the 2008 murder of a local prosecutor is why the the El Paso District Attorney Dan May has never prosecuted anyone for the 2013 assassination of Tom Clements, the Colorado Department of Corrections director at the time. “I think it has to do with the […]

DENVER — New video supports a retired El Paso County detective who said the 2013 assassination of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements was a murder-for-hire. No one disputes Evan Ebel shot and killed Tom Clements by posing as a pizza delivery man, but there is controversy whether Ebel acted alone or had help. According to […]

DENVER — Benjamin Davis, founder of 211 Crew, a white supremacist prison gang, is dead, the Colorado Department of Corrections said Sunday. The death is being investigated as a suicide, officials said. Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements was killed by a member of the gang in 2013, the Texas Rangers found. The Rangers’ investigation found Evan Ebel killed […]

DENVER — The Texas Ranger report spells it out on the first page, saying evidence shows Colorado parolee Evan Ebel “murdered” Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery man Nathan Leon.  It concludes Clements’ murder was “ordered by the hierarchy of the 211 prison gang.” All the evidence in the report […]

DENVER — The brazenness and brutality of the crime stunned Colorado in March 2013 when a state prison parolee, Evan Ebel, was suspected of ambushing and killing Nathan Leon, a Denver pizza deliveryman. Ebel is then believed to have used Leon’s uniform to trick Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements into opening the door of his Monument […]

DENVER — Colorado state lawmakers are demanding answers about allegations concerning misreported numbers by Colorado Department of Corrections leaders. A DOC whistleblower’s emails in late December and early January sparked the controversy and lawmakers who serve on the state’s Joint Budget Committee began questioning DOC leaders. FOX31 Denver Investigative Reporter Tak Landrock obtained those emails […]

DENVER — Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob Beauprez continues to stick to the issue of public safety in the closing days of his campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. He’ll kick off a six-day tour across Colorado with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and several local law enforcement officers at a press conference Thursday afternoon […]

DENVER — One day after GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez released a TV ad citing last year’s murder of former Colorado Dept. of Corrections Chief Tom Clements’ as an example of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s failure to keep the state safe, Clements’ widow, Lisa, asked Beauprez to stop. “Mr. Beauprez, it is with great sadness and […]