The CSU Pueblo football team will play their third consecutive home game
The CSU Pueblo football team will play their third consecutive home game on Saturday when they host Colorado Mesa University. The game kicks off at 11am.
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El Paso County Sheriff’s call on community to mitigate fake threats
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPSO) tells KRDO13 that they’ve received around 10 noncredible threats within the last day. They say those are separate from the two students charged with crimes. Those students are accused of reposting false and misleading information on social media and disrupting school attendance and operations.
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Shortage of doctors leaves patients waiting for answers
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Back on June 22, after fueling up at the Sam’s Club on Woodmen in Colorado Springs, Christine Hyatt had a seizure while waiting to turn south onto Academy. Luckily, she was at a stop, and the seizure only caused her to roll slowly into the back of a Jeep instead
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Ellicott schools shut down for the day, Sheriff’s Office says threat isn’t credible
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Ellicott schools are releasing students for today after going on lockdown due to a threat they received, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says that the threat is not credible and that the school district made the decision to shut down
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Colorado Springs’ public works director discusses response to water flow on Dublin Boulevard
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A day after the city sponsored an open house to inform citizens about an upcoming improvement project on Dublin Boulevard, the public works director talked about how it will address an underground spring that has become a traffic concern on part of the street. Richard Mulledy discussed the matter Wednesday
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Trump unofficially announces plans to visit Aurora
At a rally Wednesday in Long Island, New York, former president Donald Trump announced his intention to visit two cities that he claims have been ruined by a surge of illegal immigrants. Springfield, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado have both received a large amount of attention after Trump mentioned them in ABC’s presidential debate on September
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Prosecutors plan to give Colorado funeral home owners more time to consider state plea deal
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – El Paso County prosecutors plan to extend the timeline in which funeral home owners accused in a fraud scheme involving 190 decomposing bodies can accept a state plea deal. Families of victims provided KRDO13 Investigates emails showing that on Friday, the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office plans to request another
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Two El Paso County students charged for spreading false school threat information
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Two students from two separate schools are facing criminal charges after deputies say they spread false information about school threats to schools locally and nationwide. The sheriff’s office says one student was charged with interference of an educational institution, and the other for false reporting and the interference of
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Colorado Springs hosts snow plow driver training ahead of winter
Colorado Springs, Colo. (KRDO) – The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic brought worker shortages to local public works offices. But Colorado Springs should be close to full staff for the upcoming snowplow season. A two-day training session started Wednesday at a city facility on Out West Drive, which is near the intersection of South
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Gunfire riddles multiple Briargate homes with bullets, hits baby’s crib, leaves residents stunned
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Homeowners in one Briargate neighborhood in Colorado Springs are still left in total disbelief after their quiet street was riddled with bullets and gunfire over the weekend. One family’s 14-month-old baby was just one foot away from possibly being hit by a bullet, which lodged into the headboard of her
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UPDATE: Paving begins on North Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, crews continued the actual repaving of a mile-long stretch of North Academy Boulevard, from Voyager Parkway near Interstate 25, to just north of Woodmen Road. Milling — the removal of old asphalt — began last Sunday night and city officials said that repaving
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The Pueblo Central football team will play a school from California on Friday
The Pueblo Central football team will play a high school team from California under the lights of Dutch Clark Stadium on Friday night. The Wildcats will host Moorpark high school from the Los Angeles area. The game will kickoff at 7pm.
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Air Academy High School receives the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque
The Air Academy cheer squad received the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque on Tuesday afternoon. Air Academy high school was our week two winners of the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award.
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Pueblo Rescue Mission asking for donations to make up for stolen funds
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Pueblo Rescue Mission has set up a bank account and is asking the community to help victims of alleged theft by a former, senior employee recoup their losses. RELATED: Senior employee at Pueblo Rescue Mission accused of stealing money from residents “It’s a dire need for most of these people.”
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Paving of Pikes Peak Avenue in Colorado Springs delayed by change in strategy
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — City officials have canceled a plan to use recycled asphalt in the repaving of Pikes Peak Avenue, between Circle Drive and Chelton Road, on the city’s east side. In mid-June, neighbor Kirk Skabo emailed KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior, saying that he thought the long-awaited paving job was finally about
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Drivers complain of water seeping from under Dublin Boulevard in Colorado Springs; city has plan to respond
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers and neighbors say that for as long as the past six months, water has been flowing from under the eastbound lanes of Dublin Boulevard, just west of Peterson Road, and they worry the situation will gradually worsen. “It’s going to be probably a bevy of accidents occurring (this winter)
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The School Buzz: D20 8th graders show off Colonial knowledge with annual project
You may have had a wax museum project as a young social studies student. But Challenger Middle School takes history education to the next level on Tuesday with its annual Colonial Recruitment Fair. The D-20 school has 8th graders take part in the fair each year to learn more about the original 13 colonies that
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Slap Me Some Skin
Top prep performances of the week for the week of September 13th.
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Motorcyclist hit by tire on I-25 identified; Friends grieve loss of Herry Rangingisan
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The El Paso County Coroner has confirmed the identity of a man who was killed after being hit in the head by a tire that came loose and flew off a car along Interstate 25 on Sunday morning. That man was identified as 59-year-old Herry “Rang” Rangingisan. According to state
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State licensed plastic surgeon charged in Sunday morning shooting spree
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A licensed plastic surgeon in the state of Colorado is facing charges stemming from a Sunday morning shooting spree that spanned four different locations and sent one man to the hospital. Colorado Springs Police charged Rupesh Jain, 53, with five different felonies in connection to a shooting spree that injured
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