Fremont County News

Hospitals know their jobs - to care for the sick or injured. A piece of that care is allowing friends and family to visit patients, thereby maintaining an environment that lifts spirits and encourages healing.

Troy Hoss' heart overflows with pride and affection for his country, his roots run deep in Fremont County and now his wings are taking him to launch a music career in Nashville, Tenn.

Once again denied additional funding by Fremont County voters, Sheriff Jim Beicker resolutely said he will continue to do the best job he can with the funding currently available.

A Florence police officer resigns from the force while the focus of a criminal and internal investigation.

Just more than 26 percent of Fremont County voters had turned in their ballots by Thursday, a number the election department would like to see dramatically increase.

District Judge Julie Marshall accepted guilty pleas from Edward Alan Miller on two charges that will send him to prison for two years.

The color of fall is orange. At least it will be when Family Center presents its annual Fall Festival from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Abbey Fieldhouse.

Hundreds of Fremont County residents are taking advantage of free H1N1 clinics offered by the county health department.

The Colorado attorney general's office is suing a Colorado Springs mortgage company, its top loan originator and a managing general partner.

Fremont County will hold an H1N1 vaccine clinic in Canon City Tuesday. There are strict eligibility rules for who will be allowed to receive the vaccine.

As families across Fremont County can attest, 2009 has been a tough year economically.

Eight months of interstate negotiations ended Wednesday when Ward Ryan Welty returned to Canon City to enter a guilty plea in an Internet Crimes Against Children case dating to June 2008.

Traveling across the country to seek new adventures is what a lot of people would like to do.

Two Canon City men are behind bars for attempting to buy illegal firearms from undercover agents.

Cuts in countywide law enforcement services continue to deepen as Fremont County Sheriff Jim Beicker manages to stay under budget.

Fremont County citizens interested in serving their communities are invited to submit letters of interest to fill open seats on two different county panels.

After waiting for three years, the 'Phantom Canyon Driving Tour' CD is ready to roll into the pages of history.

The first doses of H1N1 flu nasal mist vaccines arrived Thursday in Fremont County, which will be available for healthy health-care workers under 50 from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday at 172 Justice Center Road.

A former Colorado prisons director who prosecutors said harassed his estranged wife and used a restricted law enforcement database to look up the license plate of her boyfriend's truck has pleaded guilty in the case.

Facing an ongoing plunge in revenues, the City of Canon City is proposing a 13 percent decrease in its 2010 General Fund expenditures from the previous year, slashing that budget by $1.5 million.