Temperatures across Southeast Colorado will be below normal Wednesday as another round of monsoon moisture spreads across the area.
While exact locations for the heaviest rains are unknown, be alert to the flood risk throughout the area. A flash flood watch will be in effect from 3:00 p.m. Wednesday until 3:00 a.m. Thursday.

The Sand Creek Massacre is a seminal event in American Indian history, a brutal massacre that took 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho lives in a surprise raid by Colorado (US) Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. At 10:00 am on Saturday, August 5, join Park Ranger Teri Jobe on a free guided tour that traces the path of the attack.

David "Dave" Norris Harrison

December 17, 1941 - July 19, 2017

David "Dave" Norris Harrison, 75, retired from Vulcan Chemicals in 2000 where he was a chemical engineer.

He passed away July 19, 2017, from complications of Alzheimer’s.

Dalton Myron Teague

December 7, 1919 - July 24, 2017

Funeral arrangements are pending. Mr. Teague at Cheyenne Manor in Cheyenne Wells.

Arrangements are under the direction of Brown Funeral Home.

William Max Engelbrecht

Feburary 9, 1956 - July 23, 2017

Funeral Services are pending. Mr. Engelbrecht passed away unexpectedly in Cheyenne County.

Arrangements are under the direct of Brown Funeral Home.

Bush Brothers & Company, which produces a variety of canned baked bean products, has issued a voluntary nation-wide recall of three products due to what the company calls a potentially defective side seam on the cans.

Brown Sugar Hickory Baked Beans, Country Style Baked Beans and Original Baked Beans in 28 ounce cans are subject to the recall. All have a best by date of June 2019.

I remember that Buster Bowen used to request to sing this song: “Wonderful Words of Life”. Sing them over again to me, Wonderful words of life, Let me more of their beauty see, Wonderful words of life. Words of life and beauty teach me faith and duty, Beautiful words, wonderful words, Wonderful words of life.” Philip P. Bliss Buster was a veteran, rancher, and school board member, active in the Chivington Friends Church.

The Acting Inspector General of Social Security, Gale Stallworth Stone, is warning citizens about a new Social Security Administration (SSA) employee impersonation scheme.  SSA and its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has recently been receiving reports from citizens across the country about other phone calls from an individual posing as an SSA employee.  The caller attempts to acquire personally identifiable information from victims to then edit the victims’ direct deposit, address, and telephone information with SSA.