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Costa: $14,460 per person for ruined Italy cruises

Costa Crociere SpA offered uninjured passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece Friday to compensate them for lost baggage and the psychological trauma they suffered after their cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany.

But some passengers are already refusing to accept the deal, sayin ...

Man killed trying to cross Highway 50

A man died Thursday night after being hit by a car as he crossing U.S. Highway 50 East near Bonforte Boulevard.

The man, believed to be 48, wasn’t in the crosswalk when he was hit by an eastbound car driven by an unidentified woman, Pueblo police Sgt. Rick Lancendorfer said.

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12th body, captain's documents found in cruise ship off Italy

Divers plumbing the capsized Costa Concordia’s murky depths pulled out the body of a woman in a life vest Saturday, while scuba-diving police swam through the captain’s cabin to retrieve a safe and documents belonging to the man who abandoned the cruise liner after it was gashed by a ...

CEO says captain of wrecked cruise ship misled execs, crew, passengers

The cruise captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information to the company and crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise-ship owner’s chief executive said Friday as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers.

2 more cruise bodies found, oil pumping to begin

Experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship as early as Tuesday to avert a possible environmental catastrophe and the ship is stable enough to let search efforts go on for those still missing, Italian officials said.

The decision to carry out both operations was made after i ...

Church: Springs priest faces sex-abuse probe

After learning their pastor has been accused of sexually abusing a child, the shocked congregation of St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church was left in silence Saturday night.

The Rev. Rafael Torres-Rico told the packed, 1,100-member church during the 5 p.m. Mass that The Rev. Charles ...

Driver hits cyclist, may face DUI charges

Colorado Springs police arrested a man early Wednesday morning on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after he hit a bicyclist, knocking him onto the pavement.

Jeffery Givens, 21, was driving eastbound on Pikes Peak Avenue just before 1 a.m., and was swerving between lanes, police said. ...

Disaster at sea: Luxury cruise turns into nightmare

On board the Costa Concordia, thousands of passengers were dining, drinking, attending a magic show, perhaps trying their luck in the casino.

It was Friday night on the luxury cruise liner, sailing in the Mediterranean off the Italian coast with about 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew member ...

School bus involved in wreck in Woodland Park

A school bus crashed Wednesday afternoon when police suspect it turned in front of traffic as it neared Woodland Park.

None of the 14 children in the bus were injured in the wreck, which happened around 4:10 p.m. near the intersection of U.S. 24 and Aspen Garden Way, according to Woodland ...