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Saturday, December 29, 2012  The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is planning to ask lawmakers for $500,000 to help it more quickly process the huge backlog of background checks for gun buyers.  The recent rush on firearms even has one local gun dealer running low on merchandise.

Thursday, December 27, 2012  The Colorado Bureau of Investigations says a backlog in background checks for firearms buyers is now up to several days.

Monday, December 24, 2012  Gun background checks continue to surge in Colorado.

Saturday, October 06, 2012  Police in Westminster are looking for a 10-year-old girl who was last seen walking to school.  Jessica Ridgeway normally meets a friend at a park on her way to Witt Elementary School, but she didn't make it to the park or school Friday.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012  While the investigation continues into the Aurora Theater Shooting local gun clubs are seeing more members.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011  Pueblo County Sheriff's deputies arrested a former evidence custodian on a warrant requested by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011  The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) released data results this week stemming from 'Katie's Law,' a law that went into effect in Colorado Sept. 30.

Thursday, May 13, 2010  Wednesday night the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) first accelerant-sniffing canine, Erin, lost her battle with cancer.

Monday, April 19, 2010  Jobe says his office was called and the deputy who responded pulled the suspect over as he was driving away. He says 57-year-old Cixto Rodriguez of Arlington, Texas, drew a knife and repeatedly threatened the deputy, at one point saying: "you don't have it in you to shoot me.'

Monday, February 15, 2010  The Instacheck Unit of the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, which handles statewide background checks for firearms, approved 202,613 background checks in 2009, up from 196,980 in 2008.

Monday, January 18, 2010  Colorado investigators say Montrose police who entered the garage of a man who shot an killed an officer during a domestic violence call in July believed that the suspect was unarmed.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009  Deputies and medical staff performed lifesaving measures immediately and the victim was transported by ambulance to Parkview Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.