Updated: 5:32 PM Area law enforcement officers are gearing up for the long holiday weekend---one that typically leads a lot of drinking and driving arrests.

Updated: 5:11 PM More than a half-dozen University of Colorado football players appeared before a grand jury that is investigating the program's sordid recruiting scandal.

Updated: 4:57 PM A former Judge Advocate General at Fort Carson says four soldiers would likely face general court martials, if they're found guilty in a case of abuse and manslaughter involving Iraqi detainees.

Updated: 3:15 AM Four soldiers from Fort Carson face charges for the death of an Iraqi prisoner, Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington confirmed Thursday.

Updated: 5:06 PM The Air Force Academy Class of 2008 has arrived.

Updated: 5:04 PM Denver police say there's no connection between the beating deaths of two homeless men whose bodies were found within 24 hours of each other.

Updated: 5:02 PM The mother of a newborn found in a Denver trash bin will face charges of felony child abuse and first-degree murder.

Updated: 4:59 PM A Boulder County woman has tested positive for West Nile Virus, bringing to at least eight the number of confirmed human cases in Colorado this year.

Updated: 4:46 PM Here's a list of some of the celebrations and fireworks displays going on around southern Colorado this weekend.

Updated: 7:35 PM The man who's led prosecution of Kobe Bryant's sexual assault case since last year will be on the sidelines during the NBA star's trial this summer.

Updated: 10:09 PM The fourth of July is big business for some local merchants in southern Colorado.

Updated: 9:58 PM Fort Carson soldiers who trained the Iraqi Army are back home Tuesday night.

Updated: 8:43 PM Pueblo County Sheriff, Dan Corsentino will not face criminal charges, stemming from accusations of sexual harassment

Updated: 8:33 PM A man turns himself into police in Pueblo after fatally stabbing another man at a bar early Tuesday morning.

Updated: 8:29 PM A fomer Pueblo radio news director is charged with having child pornography on his computer.

Updated: 12:42 PM Here are the top news stories in Colorado for Tuesday, June 29, 2004.

Updated: 4:48 PM Colorado won't have public school vouchers at least until the fall of 2005 following Monday's ruling by the state Supreme court.

Updated: 4:41 PM No one had a permit or permission, but about 1,000 trees along Highway 24 in Manitou Springs have mysteriously disappeared. The Colorado Department of Transportation is now investigating to see who is at fault.

Updated: 12:47 PM A Fountain man is dead after friends say he went riding his ATV along rain-swollen Fountain Creek, and never came home. They found Randy Umbaugh's body after the water receded Monday morning.

Updated: 4:14 PM Police have identified a mother and father who died in Pueblo Sunday as the result of a murder-suicide.

Updated: 4:05 PM Weekend storms wreaked havoc on some southern Colorado homes as their owners work to clean up the mess, ahead of another expected round of storms.

Updated: 5:57 AM The first debate between Democratic Senate candidates is set for later this week.

Updated: 5:54 AM Another wet and rainy day in Southern Colorado, but this time it was dangerous.

Updated: 5:56 AM A disturbing scene Sunday in Pueblo.

Updated: 5:58 AM Former Congressman Bob Schaeffer is getting a thumbs up from one of the most influential men in the state in his Senate bid, Focus on the Family founder, Dr. James Dobson.