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KAUFMAN, Texas (CNN) — A Texas community is on edge after a district attorney who said he would put away the “scum” who killed a colleague two months ago was shot to death alongside his wife in his home Saturday night. Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood said he thought there was a “strong connection” between […]

(CNN) — The man believed to be the one who killed Colorado’s prisons chief fantasized in a letter to a friend about torturing and killing guards at the state correctional facility where he was incarcerated. He signed it “Evil Evan Ebel.” Whether it was meant as a joke or something more sinister may never be […]

KAUFMAN, Texas (CNN) — Kaufman County is on edge. Two prosecutors killed in two months, including the district attorney, gunned down in his home over the weekend. What’s going on? Is someone assassinating prosecutors? As armed guards surround the Kaufman County Courthouse and police shrouded some public officials in around-the-clock protection, it seems there are […]

DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed three Democratic gun control proposals into law Wednesday morning, including the controversial ban on high-capacity magazines that has outraged gun owners threatening a recall effort against the governor and ballot measures to reverse the ban. During a press conference that followed the bill signing, Hickenlooper said that his office […]

In the late 1800s, Australian forecaster Clement Wragge first started naming hurricanes after women and politicians with whom he disagreed. Considering there are more than a few Coloradans who find blizzards disagreeable, the Weather Channel recently decided the frosty weather patterns are worthy of names, as well. The network announced Tuesday that it will begin […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Dept. of Corrections plans to close a high security section of the State Penitentiary due in large part to a falling prison population. 316 high security beds in the South Tower of Centennial Correctional Facility in Canon City will close by February 1, 2013. It’s the third year in […]

LITTLETON, Colo. – Tom Mauser has been wearing his son, Daniel’s sneakers ever since the Columbine High School mass shooting on April 20, 1999, when Daniel and 13 others were killed. “These are the shoes that Daniel was wearing on April 20, 1999,” Tom said Wednesday during an interview with FOX31 Denver at the Columbine […]