Otero County News

This bolt was among the impressive sights over Denver as a storm passed through Thursday evening.

A man came prepared for midafternoon thunderstorms Thursday. There is a 30 percent chance of storms today.

A 3-year-old girl who drowned while playing at the edge of Holbrook Lake in Otero County has been formally identified.

Economic stimulus money will be giving the communities in the Arkansas Valley a big boost this summer.

Garfield County Crime Stoppers and the Garfield County Sheriff's Department are looking for information on the whereabouts of Ruben Nevarez-Lopez, 75.

An Alamogordo, New Mexico man is wanted on an active warrant by the Otero County Sheriff's Office.

Colorado Department of Transportation maintenance crews will be chip sealing numerous highway segments through southeastern Colorado this month.

A 200 acre wildfire is burning near the Otero-Pueblo County line, north of Fowler, east of Pueblo.

23, Bent County Deputy Barr accompanied Parole Officer Jon Van Zant on a home visit to 6005 CR 7, Las Animas.

Deputies from the Prowers County Sheriff's office, with assistance from the Lamar Police Department, discovered a 16 year old female run away from Otero County in an apartment in the 300 block of E. Elm St.

Sheriff's deputies said a Cheraw man believed to be suicidal was found dead in a car that had been driven off a gully.

A BNSF coal train derailed near the town of Manzanola Thursday morning, prompting the Colorado State Patrol to close a portion of Colorado 207 for more than six hours.

A coal train derailed Thursday morning in Manzanola, east of Pueblo. It happened just before 7:30 a.m. Otero County responded along with the Colorado State Patrol and the Crowley Fire department.

Published January 2, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. A coal train derailed in Otero County on Thursday morning, blocking a county road and closing a state highway for half the day.

Pueblo's unemployment rate took a steep jump in November, rising to 7.1 percent from 6.7 percent a month before.

Bent-Prowers Cattle and Horse Growers Association set its annual meeting during its recent board session in Springfield.