PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO)- The City of Pueblo is expected to get three new fire stations to help improve safety and response times. Station 8 is one of two stations being relocated to help spread out resources as the department prepares to build a new firehouse. It’s all a part of the department’s plan to spread
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Albanie Cordova just wrapped up a dominant softball season with Pueblo County, helping the hornets to the state quarterfinals. She was all-state honorable mention, and she’ll be playing college softball next year. That’s quite a series of accomplishments for a player who just last season sat out the entire year. “I was
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Pueblo County Sheriff’s office (PCSO) says they have arrested a woman for allegedly carjacking her elderly neighbor on Friday morning. That woman, identified as Amber Keeney, was in the area of 24th Lane and Shylo Drive walking on the road when she stopped her elderly neighbor, who was driving
Continue Reading
COLORADO (KRDO) — Four county commissioners are publicly endorsing Jeff Hurd in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District primary as he challenges incumbent U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert. The pressure from Hurd is coming at a time when Congresswoman Boebert is already facing pressure from Adam Frisch, whom she narrowly beat in 2022 by around 500 votes. “I
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Attorney General’s office is listening to pleas for change spurred by the violent 2022 murder of a Pueblo mother at the hands of a repeat and known domestic violence abuser. Now, the oversights by the Colorado judicial system that allowed her to be placed in danger are being addressed.
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO)- The Pueblo County Coroner has identified the worker who died on Oct. 20 from injuries he sustained when a crane overturned at EZRAZ Steel Mill. According to the Pueblo County Coroner, Pierre Warford, a 32-year-old from Amite, Louisiana, was pronounced dead at the scene by a Coroner Investigator. An autopsy is scheduled
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Coal and train cars were spread out all across Interstate 25 for days following Sunday’s train derailment that left one man dead just north of Pueblo. Investigators believe that a broken rail caused the derailment even though a Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad team inspected that stretch of track that
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – One person is dead after an accident involving a crane Friday morning on the grounds of the EVRAZ steel mill in Pueblo. The Pueblo Fire Department (PFD), the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), the EVRAZ Fire Department, and the Pueblo Police Department (PPD) were dispatched to a toppled crane at 11:18
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — One Pueblo mayoral candidate is sounding the alarm after ballots were being sent out to voters without the typical “secrecy” sleeve. However, election officials are pushing back on these claims – stating they were checked by the state and are safe. Mayoral candidate Heather Graham claims without the sleeve, a hole
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Nearly half a dozen juveniles were arrested in Pueblo for reported vehicle thefts across El Paso County and Pueblo County. According to police, one of those kids is connected to a deadly August shooting. The Pueblo Police Department said over the past several months, detectives have been investigating numerous motor vehicle
Continue Reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this story contained a photo of a woman not associated with this case. We have removed the image and deeply regret our error. PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The criminal cases lodged against the son of Pueblo Mayor Nick Gradisar concluded on Thursday, with Douglas Gradisar pleading guilty to misdemeanor
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Five days of detours around Sunday’s train derailment, coal spill, and bridge collapse on I-25 north of Pueblo ended Thursday with the reopening of northbound lanes of traffic. KRDO As of 4:18 p.m. Oct. 19, 2023, all of I-25 reopened north of Pueblo following days of closures after a train derailment
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad team inspected the failed rail the very day it broke, according to a company spokesperson. A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board states, the rail line, which traverses over Interstate 25, broke Sunday afternoon causing the coal train cars to derail and
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — How would you feel if your normally quiet country road suddenly became a temporary interstate highway? That’s what neighbors along the Overton Road detour from I-25 around Sunday’s train derailment have experienced for three days. KRDO “Traffic has been going pretty fast, and we’re not used to having all the
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — More drivers appeared to be following the Colorado Department of Transportation’s advice Tuesday, to use Highway 115 and U.S. 50 as the primary detour between Pueblo and Colorado Springs to get around the train derailment that occurred Sunday. KRDO KRDO traveled the recommended detour and found traffic heavy at times
Continue Reading
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says that they anticipate I-25 will cleaned up by tomorrow evening. They say that most of the derailed cars have been removed. CDOT will then evaluate the integrity of the road to determine when it can reopen. Currently, I-25 remains closed in both directions north
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Hours-long traffic jams on Interstate 25 near Pueblo on both sides of a train derailment, coal spill and collapsed rail bridge resulted in some illegal and even dangerous driving behavior Monday. KRDO The congestion led many southbound drivers to leave the freeway and seek a shortcut by driving across a
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – KRDO13 spoke with one driver who recalled the moments after a freight train derailed and a railroad bridge collapsed over I-25, just north of Pueblo. Pueblo resident Justin Fox said he was driving back from church in Colorado Springs Sunday when he saw the aftermath of the accident. Fox said
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are now on the scene of a deadly train derailment just north of Pueblo. Sunday, a train carrying coal derailed along a bridge over I-25 near milepost 106. In the accident, the bridge collapsed with a semi-truck caught underneath the rubble. The driver,
Continue Reading
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Interstate 25 remains closed in both directions just north of Pueblo following a deadly freight train derailment Sunday afternoon. At 4:22 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, Colorado State Patrol announced a trail had derailed along a bridge over I-25 near milepost 106. The bridge ended up collapsing too. Since then, drivers
Continue Reading