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Colorado Springs repeat child sex assault offender gets 128 years to life in prison
Colorado Springs barber Raymond Demon Brown was sentenced to 128 years to life in prison after he was convicted of molesting seven children over a 16-year span.

New information expected to be released in killings of Coronado students
New details about the slayings of two Coronado High School students will be released this week after an El Paso County judge lifted a seal on a key court document.

Man gets life in prison for killing Colorado Springs teen over missing phone
A two-week trial focusing on the night a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot at Memorial Park over a missing cellphone ended Thursday with guilty verdicts against the man charged with...

Ex-Fort Carson soldier gets 44 years in infant’s brutal death
An ex-Fort Carson scout who pleaded guilty in the beating death of a 4-month-old Fountain girl was sentenced Tuesday to 44 years in prison.

Man gets 60 years for fatal shooting in Colorado Springs
A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the death of a woman who was shot at close range in front of her 5-year-old son in Colorado...

Former El Paso sheriff Terry Maketa declines to testify in his own defense
Former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa declined to testify in his own defense Monday, the eighth day of his trial on corruption charges.

Terry Maketa had “hit list,” El Paso County prosecutor says of ex-sheriff
An El Paso County prosecutor testified Thursday that she blocked Sheriff Terry Maketa from pursuing what she considered a "hit list" of employees whose careers he wanted to damage.

Testimony in Terry Maketa trial focuses on missing file on current sheriff
Ex-El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa wanted to knock a sheriff's candidate out of the race when he drew attention to a missing disciplinary file, a key witness testified on...

Defense challenges witnesses over employee’s firing in Terry Maketa corruption trial
In the second day of testimony in the corruption trial of ex-El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, defense attorneys challenged witnesses over the 2013 firing of a woman who had...

Terry Maketa trial testimony reveals shifting alliances within troubled El Paso County sheriff’s office
Early testimony in the trial of former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, who is accused of four felony counts, reveals feuding and shifting alliances within his troubled office.