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Bartender Killed After Bar Fight Ends In Stabbing, Suspect ID’d
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – A Leadville man was killed after a bar fight ended with a stabbing on Monday night and police have released the identity of the suspect. Jordan Gausman (credit: Leadville...
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Man Wanted For Fatal Stabbing Of Bartender In Leadville Turns Self In
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – A suspect in a fatal stabbing in Leadville has turned himself in to authorities. Matthew James Haley (credit: CBI) Matthew Haley, 29, turned himself in to authorities in...
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Sheriff: Gunman Made Threats Of Flying Plane Into LoDo Office Building
BUENA VISTA, Colo. (CBS4) – Authorities say a gunman came to Denver from Buena Vista and shot and killed his estranged wife before taking his own life had become mentally unstable. The Chaffee County...
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Search Over For Missing Backcountry Skiers, 1 Deceased
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – CBS4 has learned that after both missing backcountry skiers were found Thursday, one of them has died. The search for the two skiers began after they had not...
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Backcountry Skier Who Died Was Forest Service Ranger
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4/AP) – The backcountry skiers who died in the central Colorado mountains Thursday while he was being treated for hypothermia was a Forest Service ranger. The Lake County Office of...
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Suspect In Bomb Threat At College Believed To Be An Active Student
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Colorado Mountain College in Leadville was placed on lockout Monday morning due to a bomb threat. One person authorities believe is an active student at the school was...
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Bomb Threat Suspect Identified, Facing Charges
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4)– A 32-year-old man is facing charges for making a threat against the Colorado Mountain College campus in Leadville. Lake County Sheriff’s deputies shut down the campus after a...
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People Injured After Drone Spooks Horse At Annual ‘Skijoring’ Race
SILVERTON, Colo. (CBS4) – Three people were run over by a horse that was apparently spooked by a low-flying drone during the annual skijoring race in Silverton on Saturday. The skijoring race features...
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Going To Skijoring Races? Leave Your Drone At Home
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Three people are recovering after being trampled by a horse in Silverton after a low-flying drone spooked the animal at the skijoring race Saturday. Leadville has its own...
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District Attorney Upset Over 60-Day Sentence For 7th DUI Conviction
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4)– The District Attorney for the Fifth Judicial District is upset over the sentence handed down for a woman who was convicted of her seventh DUI. Ashby Capito was sentenced to 60...
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Sentence For 7-Time DUI Offender Sparks ‘Outrage’ From DA
By Rick Sallinger AVON, Colo. (CBS4) – An Avon woman has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after prosecutors asked a Lake County District Court Judge to give her six years for her seventh...
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Misconduct Investigation Underway In Lake County
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – The District Attorney’s office in Leadville is investigating a report of officer misconduct in Lake County last week. The incident in question happened on Friday night in...
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Video Of Deputies Investigated By DA
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Thousands of people have viewed cell phone video that some believe shows police misconduct. The Lake County sheriff is defending his deputies and the way they...
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Good Samaritans Targeted In High Country Carjacking
RED CLIFF, Colo. (CBS4) – Good Samaritans who police say pulled over to help a car on the side of the road were carjacked at gunpoint and the suspects are on the run. The incident happened in...
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It Starts As A Trickle: High Country Residents Prepare For Spring Flooding
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Emergency managers are passing out sandbags in an area that’s previously flooded in the high country because the recent warm temperatures could cause problems. It always...
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Man Pleads Guilty To Fatal Stabbing Outside High Country Bar
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) – A man charged in a fatal stabbing outside a bar in Leadville has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Silver Dollar Saloon (credit: CBS) The Lake County District Attorney’s...
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Teen Bikes In To Help Clean Up Dirty Problem In The High Country
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Illegally dumped tires, washing machines and mattresses dot the landscape. Now a 15-year-old Leadville teen is stepping up to take care of the problem. Sam...
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Girl, 15, Dies After Falling Into Creek
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – A 15-year-old girl died after falling into a creek. Her body was found late Friday night in Lake Creek in Lake County. (credit: Leadville Today) (credit: Leadville Today) She...
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Ultra-Runners From All 50 States, 35 Countries, Take On Leadville 100
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – More than 600 runners started the 35th annual Leadville Trail 100 Friday. The first finisher broke the tape more than 17.5 hours later. Ian Sharman, a British citizen from...
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Colorado Man Dies In Fall At Oregon Coast
BROOKINGS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State Police say a Colorado man visiting the coast died after falling onto the rocky shoreline. Sgt. Jeff Proulx says 27-year-old Jeremy Tilton was climbing a large rock...
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Undersheriff Fired Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – The undersheriff at the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was fired during a sexual harassment investigation. Prosecutors initially said someone was being investigated for “sexual...
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Man Sentenced For Mail, Identity Theft & Bank Fraud
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – A man in Leadville faces 12 years in prison for mail theft, identity theft, bank fraud and being a felon in possession of firearms. Delano Medina (credit: Denver Police)...
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Former Leadville Police Chief Sentenced For Thefts From Evidence Room
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) — A judge sentenced Michael Leake, the police chief for the city of Leadville for six years, to 15 years of probation Friday for stealing from the department’s evidence room....
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‘Granddaddy Of Them All’ Skijoring Helps Spur Mountain Town
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Skiers holding onto a rope attached to a horse raced down Harrison Avenue in Leadville Sunday. It’s part of what has become a crowd favorite and unique...
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Freight Depot Gets Fresh Start Thanks To Family’s Dedication
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4)– When Elsa Tharp and her parents decided to buy the old freight depot, most people said they were crazy. (credit: CBS) The building, constructed in 1884, was...
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Leadville’s High Mountain Institute Remains Evacuated Due To Wildfire
By Chris Spears DENVER (CBS4) – A small wildfire broke out Thursday afternoon near Turquoise Lake, off Lake County Road 5A near Leadville. Fire crews from nearby Summit County and Chaffee County were...
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Group Runs Marathon In Mountains, Looks To Prevent Veteran Suicides
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – For many visitors to Leadville, it’s difficult to catch their breath just walking up a few stairs, but a team of active and retired military are tackling a...
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Programs Aims To Empower Young Girls Using Outdoor Adventures
By Matt Kroschel CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Some adults are coming together to teach student leadership skills and empowerment to middle school girls in Chaffee County. (credit: CBS) With each...
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Repeat Winners At Leadville’s 100-Mile Mountain Bike Race
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) — Howard Grotts and Larissa Connors, both last year’s winners, emerged from the 1,500 entrants this year to stand atop podium again in Saturday’s Century Link Leadville Trail...
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‘One Careless Act’: Photographers Spot Fire Burning At Unattended Campsite
By Karen Morfitt LAKE COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Two Colorado photographers planned to spend the Labor Day weekend searching for fall colors. “With it being the big holiday weekend we wanted to kind of...
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Colorado Amputee Runner Moves From Tragedy To Triumph
By Melissa Garcia BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – A runner from Boulder is sharing is remarkable journey from tragedy to triumph. Dave Mackey (credit: CBS) Dave Mackey was badly injured in a fall that cost him...
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Tabor Opera House Needs Your Vote, But It’s Not About The Election
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4)– One of Colorado’s most iconic historic buildings is in danger of literally crumbling to the ground. Now, the Leadville community is trying to make sure the...
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Snow Is The Classroom For Colorado Mountain College Students
By Matt Kroschel LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4)– The first ski and snowboard terrain park to open in Colorado, beating out Loveland and Arapahoe basin, was actually built by college students in Leadville....
View ArticleLeadville Man Wounded By Officer Responding To Domestic Call
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) – A 32-year-old man has been wounded by an officer responding to a domestic dispute call in Colorado’s high country. Police say Dylan B. Gregg, of Leadville, confronted and...
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High School Snowshoe Champion Headed To Italy For World Championships
By Matt Kroschel SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Winter enthusiasts participate in many activities in Colorado, ranging from skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, hockey, sledding and snowshoeing. In fact,...
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Colorado Teenager Becomes Junior Snowshoeing Champion Of The World
SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Summit County is home to a handful of champions, and they’re about to add another one. Jeremiah Vaille won first place at snowshoeing on Saturday. (credit: Jeremiah...
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Ski Joring Organizers: Please, Leave The Drones (& Dogs) At Home
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – Organizers are asking drone owners to leave their aircraft at home this weekend if they plan on attending the popular Leadville Ski Joring Race. The crowd favorite brings...
View ArticleAvalanche Closes Highway 24 Between Minturn, Leadville
MINTURN, Colo. (CBS4)– A large avalanche has forced Highway 24 to close between Minturn and Leadville. The avalanche hit on Friday night. #BREAKING ROAD CLOSED: HWY 24 is closed at Minturn and at...
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Roof Of Old Bowling Alley Collapses Under Heavy Snow
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – The roof of the Kristi Lanes bowling alley collapsed under heavy snow in Leadville. The 12-lane bowling alley hadn’t been used for some time. (credit: Herald Democrat) The...
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Former Undersheriff Sentenced To Jail, Sex Offender Treatment
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) — A former undersheriff will serve 15 months in jail and undergo treatment as a registered sex offender following his sentencing Friday. At one time the second in command at the...
View ArticleFormer Leadville Police Chief Arrested After Allegedly Pawning Guns
LEADVILLE, Colo. (CBS4) – The former Leadville police chief has been arrested. He’s accused of pawning guns owned by the department. The district attorney says Michael Leake sold those guns at pawn...
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