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In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 photo, state flags adorn the balcony overlooking the dining hall where 4,000 cadets lunch at the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colo. Nine years after a sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy sent shock waves across the military, the Defense Department reported a spike in newly reported assaults at the school and the Air Force filed sex-crime charges against three cadets. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Sex crimes spike at Air Force Academy

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 2:32pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Nine years after a sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy sent shock waves across the military, the Defense Department last month announced a spike in reported assaults at the school - and days later the Air Force filed sex-crime charges against three cadets.

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Two men console one another other after a woman they were traveling with fell under a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train in Longmont, Colo., on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. Authorities say a 17-year-old university student lost both her legs at the knee when she fell under a moving freight train while trying to hop aboard it in Longmont. She was flown to Denver Health Medical Center after the accident Monday. Hospital officials say they cannot release any information. (AP Photo/Longmont Times-Call, Richard M. Hackett)

Utah girl, 17, has legs severed while train hopping

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 9:40am

LONGMONT, Colo. — The Utah family of a 17-year-old girl whose legs were severed while trying to hop a freight train identified the Colorado State University student as Anna Beninati.

Authorities say Beninati’s legs were severed at the knee when she fell under the train on Monday in Longmont, Colo., about 30 miles north of Denver and 30 miles south of Fort Collins, where she attends school. Police say she was trying to get to Fort Collins after a trip to Denver.

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$17M to help military find best methods to stop suicide

Dan Elliott, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 9:55pm

DENVER -- Military medical researchers say their efforts to reverse the rising number of suicides among servicemembers are based on "good ideas," but they don't know which prevention programs work and which don't.

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Army study seeks best suicide prevention programs

Dan Elliott, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 1:48pm

DENVER -- Military medical researchers say their efforts to reverse the rising number of suicides among servicemembers are based on "good ideas," but they don't know which prevention programs work and which don't. They launched a $17 million study Wednesday to find out.

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Colo. fire evacuees cautiously allowed back home

Dan Elliott, P. Solomon Banda, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 10, 2010 - 2:03pm

BOULDER, Colo. -- Crews held a wildfire near Boulder at bay Friday, allowing some 2,000 evacuees to return home with a warning to be prepared to flee again.

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A wildfire burns outside of Boulder, Colo. on Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010.

169 homes destroyed in Colorado wildfire

Dan Elliott, P. Solomon Banda, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 11:10am

BOULDER, Colo. -- Authorities say that a wildfire burning in the foothills near Boulder has destroyed at least 169 houses.

Sheriff's Cmdr. Rick Brough said Thursday that the latest damage toll is based on a survey of 80 percent of the nearly 10 square miles that were burned.

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(The Associated Press) The Marines' Angel Barcenas competes in the 100-meter race during the 2010 Warrior Games last Friday at U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Warrior Games gives injured veterans kinship, strength

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 9:07pm

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- An Afghan insurgent's homemade bomb shattered Marc Esposito's lower legs, broke his back and knocked him cold for four days. But the Air Force staff sergeant says the worst part was being torn from his Special Operations teammates who stayed in the field after he was evacuated.

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Air Force and Army play each other during sit down volleyball at the Olympic Training Center on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Air Force defeated Army and moved on the next round. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Bryan Oller)

Warrior Games give injured vets kinship, strength

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 7:11am

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An Afghan insurgent's homemade bomb shattered Marc Esposito's lower legs, broke his back and knocked him cold for four days. But the Air Force staff sergeant says the worst part was being torn from his Special Operations teammates who stayed in the field after he was evacuated.

A year later, Esposito says, he's found a new team fighting a different kind of battle — the U.S. military's first Warrior Games for wounded servicemen and women at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

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Sheen pleads not guilty in domestic violence case

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 15, 2010 - 5:45pm

ASPEN, Colo. -- Actor Charlie Sheen pleaded not guilty to domestic violence charges on Monday, nearly three months after his wife told police in a 911 call he put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her in Colorado.

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Vanessa Jackson of Savannah, Ga., holds the identity tags of her brother, Staff Sgt. Vernon W. Martin.

Fort Carson honors 15 troops killed in Afghanistan

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 6:10pm

SLIDESHOW: See pictures of the memorial service

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- Fort Carson paid somber tribute Wednesday to 15 of its soldiers killed in Afghanistan last month, the worst single month for combat deaths the post has endured since the Vietnam War.

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Mayumi Heene, front, and her son, Ryo, 9, return to the family's home in Fort Collins,, Colo., late on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. The story that 6 year old Falcon Heene had floated away in a giant helium balloon was a hoax concocted to land a reality television show, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Sheriff: Balloon boy hoax may have conspirators

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 19, 2009 - 7:26am

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The lawyer for the man accused of perpetrating the balloon boy hoax to promote a reality show said Monday that he expects authorities to bring charges against his client in the next day as investigators analyze e-mails that show Richard Heene and an associate discussing the stunt months ago.

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(The Associated Press) 6-year-old Falcon Heene is hugged by his mother, Mayumi, after a news conference outside the family's home, Thursday in Fort Collins, Colo.

Sheriff: Charges will be filed in balloon saga

Dan Elliott The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 8:53pm

Slideshow: Boy in the Balloon

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A sheriff said Saturday that his office will file criminal charges in the case of a 6-year-old boy who vanished into the rafters of his garage while the world thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying saucer-like helium balloon.

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