Don’t ask Colorado Springs Utilities construction supervisor Bobby Powell how cold it’s been the past few days unless you want to hear, “It’s so cold that ...” It’s so cold, that tools are sticking to the gloves of utility crews. It’s... Full Story »
Last Thursday, Sandra McBroom received a one-word text message that changed her life: “Hello?” It was sent by Ashley Nellums, a 20-year-old woman in rural Missouri. Ashley is the daughter Sandra gave up for adoption as a three-day-old infant.... Full Story »
Kitty Clemens, the first and only executive director of the Manitou Springs Economic Development Council since it was formed seven years ago, is resigning Jan. 2 to become one of five division directors for the Denver Regional Council of Governments.... Full Story »
Great Western Bank has donated $5,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters-Pikes Peak to augment its one-on-one mentoring program. "This will have a significant impact on our programming, because it’s been such a challenging year for so many people,” the... Full Story »
A Fort Carson soldier accused of killing a woman and raping a teenager, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Robert Hull Marko, a 22-year-old U.S. Army mortarman, entered his plea on Monday before 4th Judicial District Judge Larry... Full Story »
A man accused of killing a Colorado Springs teenager by slashing his throat has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Nathan Thomas Logsdon, 25, entered the plea Friday before 4th Judicial District Judge Ronald Crowder. Logsdon had been accused of... Full Story »
Each victim is a face frozen in time, haunting investigators whose job it is to bring their killers to justice decades after the trail has gone cold.The Gazette in cooperation with the Colorado Springs Police Department runs a weekly feature called... Full Story »
A public hearing on two charter schools proposed in Colorado Springs School District 11 will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 9) during the regular board meeting at the district administration building, 1115 N. El Paso St. The administration also... Full Story »
On the list of subjects surrounding elections that get people’s blood pressure rising, mail-only ballots are probably somewhere near the top. Full Story »
Colorado was one of seven states whose death rate from drunken driving increased last year, a new federal report shows. Nationally, death rates attributed to drunken driving decreased in 40 states and remained the same in three. Eight states and the... Full Story »
On a frozen Monday, as homeless people in Colorado Springs endured hell, the City Council cast a no camping ordinance into purgatory. Advocates of a law making it illegal to camp in public rights-of-way can still work on it until it comes back to the... Full Story »
Work has been up and down for Keith as a construction contractor. “With the downturn in the economy, sort of from last year, the construction industry has been hit real hard,” he said. “It’s sometimes slow, and sometimes non-existent.”... Full Story »
Two statewide initiatives that will reduce property taxes and slash fees on motor vehicles and cell phones have been certified and will be placed on the 2010 ballot. Amendment 60, which would roll back property taxes, received 139,960 signatures,... Full Story »
Walter Himmelberg stood in the snow to remember a sunny morning he spent in Hawaii 68 years ago.The 91-year-old Army veteran said he was no hero that day when Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor and strafed his quarters at Schofield... Full Story »
The story so far: It’s Christmas Eve, and four residents of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo — Rafiki the gorilla, Bomani the meerkat, Uhura the giraffe and Malaika the elephant — have been transformed into humans. By the time the four reached The... Full Story »
Police are investigating whether cold weather played a role in the deaths of two men found in separate locations in Colorado Springs this morning. The first death was reported shortly after 8 a.m., when police received a call that an elderly man... Full Story »
The City Council decided to shelve a proposed no-camping law that could have displaced scores of homeless people living along creeks, parks and other public property. Even the Police Department had “concerns about implementation issues,” Chief... Full Story »
Russ Chapman might have been the first person in Colorado Springs to learn of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. At just 16, he was pulling a shift in the mailroom at the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. The Palmer High School student was... Full Story »
Robert Moran, leader of The Street Church, which meets in downtown parks and focuses on ministering to and feeding the homeless, sent me an email Sunday lamenting the lack of participation from downtown churches in helping the many homeless people living in encampments in the area. Full Story »
Keith Roberts is a fairy godfather for women in labor. He brings a calming presence and a Crock-Pot. Between contractions, he puts hot towels on the woman’s lower back. He is a doula, a non-medical birth assistant — a job usually performed by a... Full Story »
All of a sudden, Ann had trouble speaking one day at work. “I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn’t get it out,” she said. When she got home from work, her fiance took her to the emergency room, where they learned she’d had a stroke. Ann,... Full Story »
The story so far: Rafiki, a gorilla at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, has been turned into a human for one day. And it seems he’ll have company on his adventure.Rafiki was not the only one the man named Nicholas had visited. He had also offered his... Full Story »
When Nikki Saucedo began her search for a project to earn the highest award in Girl Scouting, she knew only that she wanted to do something “to enhance life.” Little did she know that her decision to make puppets to comfort children who were... Full Story »
Nearly three years after a developer turned Ski Lane into a ski jump, residents of the unincorporated El Paso County neighborhood are suing to get their gravel road back. They want a gently sloping country road to the north, like they had for... Full Story »
Let’s imagine an alternate universe. Stay with me on this, I’ll make sense in a sec. Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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