Last week’s order by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to limit gatherings to no more than 10 people — in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus — apparently affected the ability of people to adopt pets at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region. Many people who went to the facility for that
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When Colorado liquor stores sell out of Everclear because people use it as hand sanitizer, you know that business is no longer the same. “It’s 188-proof grain alcohol,” said Jack Backman, owner of Cheers Liquor Mart in Colorado Springs. “You can drink it or sanitize with it.” Backman, who has owned the store at Circle
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An unidentified person has died after being shot just before 7:30 p.m. Friday at an east Colorado Springs apartment complex, police confirmed. The shooting happened inside an apartment at the Aspen Townhomes, on Pikes Peak Avenue east of the Academy Boulevard intersection. A witness said the victim was a juvenile but police couldn’t confirm that.
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One of southern Colorado’s strongest snowstorms of the season dumped up to a foot of snow Thursday around Woodland Park and in other areas of Teller County. Much of the heavy, wet snow fell late Thursday morning and early Thursday afternoon, driven by strong winds and reducing visibility. Several vehicles slid off the road and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On Thursday morning, two weeks after the first two positive tests for the coronavirus were confirmed in Colorado, Fort Carson plans to open its own center for screening and testing soldiers, their families and post staff. The center will start operations at 7 a.m. under a tent outside the Soldier Family
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — First, it was toilet paper and hand sanitizer; now, fears surrounding the current coronavirus crisis has generated a significant increase in sales of guns and ammunition. According to one Colorado Springs gun shop owner and several customers Tuesday, ammunition is in short supply or sold out at many shops. “Even
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A crash involving more than a dozen vehicles on U.S. 24 in Ute Pass blocked traffic in both directions between Manitou Springs and Cascade Friday afternoon as snow pelted the area. The Colorado Department of Transportation says it happened in the eastbound lanes around 5:27 p.m. near Waldo Canyon, but
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The city of Colorado Springs has postponed its 36th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade that was set for Saturday. According to VisitCOS.com, the parade has been canceled, but a few other festivities are still taking place as scheduled. A news release issued by the city later Thursday morning said the
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Too much of a good thing can be bad, and that’s apparently the case with low gasoline prices American drivers currently enjoy. But the real danger is those prices could continue to fall, and jeopardize the economic health of the U.S., Colorado and local municipalities. According to Donnie Wisenbaker, the CEO of Pikes Peak Energy
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Randy Bishop, who made headlines by evading capture multiple times beginning in November before finally being captured in late January, has been connected to the previously unsolved November homicide of Thomas Faircloth. Now, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says that Bishop, 35, is charged with second-degree murder in the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many people who supported Gannon Stauch and his family want to see justice done and follow the legal process for Letecia Stauch, his stepmother charged with murdering him. To that end, some say they want to attend Wednesday’s court hearing for Letecia Stauch. However, tighter security and limited space may
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado state legislature and the Colorado Springs City Council are exploring separate proposals to strengthen a law recently passed by Congress to raise the minimum age for buying nicotine products to 21. State lawmakers proposed a bill that would allow authorities to conduct random inspections of businesses that sell
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Public Health Department confirmed Friday the first presumptive positive test of coronavirus in the county. The test was done at a state level and showed a positive result for COVID-19, but the test will be verified by the Centers for Disease Control. The patient is a
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DENVER (KRDO) — Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday afternoon that two people in Colorado have tested positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands across the world. Polis issued a tweet shortly before 4 p.m., saying his office “learned of the first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in Colorado.” The results were
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SALINE COUNTY, Kan. (KRDO) — The woman accused of killing her stepson has left a Kansas jail, and is on her way back to Colorado to face first-degree murder charges. According to court records, Letecia Stauch, 36, was released early Thursday morning from the Saline County Sheriff’s Office in Salina, Kansas, west of Kansas City.
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The absence of a Monument Board of Trustee member was a key factor in a vote Monday night to address rising levels of radium in west side residents’ water supply. The board expected to decide whether to pay a firm — the amount reportedly $87,000 — to study how to remove radium from local groundwater
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – An officer-involved shooting leaves one person dead in Pueblo. It all began around 10 p.m. Sunday, at a 7-Eleven convenience store near the corner of N. Elizabeth St. and US Hwy. 50. Pueblo Police told KRDO NewsChannel 13 that a suspect hit a person with a handgun and then stole their
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UPDATE: Friday, Feb. 28 Around 40 people attended a workshop in Monument hosted by town officials Friday regarding the situation of radium levels in the water supply. The meeting lasted for 90 minutes at the town hall; officials made a presentation to citizens about the town’s water system, how it works and the effect of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Cutting fuel lines used to be a fairly common method for thieves to steal gasoline from vehicles, but lately there seem to be more instances of people actually drilling into gas tanks to steal fuel. We’ve learned that in the past month or so, at least one individual and two
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Neighbors who live along the Springs Ranch Golf Course are facing a dilemma: the golf course itself may soon be a distant memory. The city’s planning commission voted unanimously last Thursday to approve a rezoning request that would allow developers to build houses on the golf course — a project
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