COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Woodland Park Police Department (WWPPD) is handing drivers gift cards instead traffic tickets. The citation replacements are thanks to a partnership with Advanced Auto Parts, which provided 50 $10 gift cards to patrol officers. According to the department, the gift cards will be handed out to people who are pulled over
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The increase in respiratory syncytial virus is affecting school district across the Colorado Springs and Pueblo area.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers is offering a five-figure reward to anyone who can provide information that’ll lead to an arrest in a July homicide. On July 6, 2022, the Colorado Springs Police Department responded to reports of a shooting at the El Morro Mobile Home Park around 10:47
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The Air Force men’s basketball team beats South Dakota 79-58. Sophomore guard Jake Heidbreder scored a career-high 27 points as the Falcons avenged a loss last season to the Coyotes, improving to 6-2 at home.
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Liberty high school won the Pikes Peak State College Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award during the final week of the high school football season. On Tuesday, the Lancers received the Pikes Peak State College Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — For the third time this year, a staff shortage has caused a branch of the Pikes Peak Library District in El Paso County to close early, but not because of worker shortages common during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest situation happened Tuesday evening at the PPLD’s Fountain branch, resulting in
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Mesa Ridge High School has a lot of school buzz to brag about. Well, more so, music to your ears. Five Mesa Ridge High School musicians have been selected to play in the Pikes Peak Honors Orchestra Festival on January 20: Mari Marsh (violin), Aaron Welch (viola), Hayleigh Duez (cello), Gabe Browlowe and John Pope
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Colorado Springs School District 11 is making college more accessible to all. Students can now apply to historically black colleges for free. Thanks to a new partnership between the ‘Common Black College Application’ and the school district. This partnership makes it much easier for students at district 11 to apply to
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A year end video of the 2022 high school football season.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The holiday season and limited vaccination options are combining to significantly increase the spread of the COVID-19 virus in 16 Colorado counties, according to a report Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the report, Pueblo and Fremont counties in southern Colorado are among those having
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New Summit Charter Academy had a lot to smile about last Thursday. Along with a 1972 Corvette Stingray, a $5,000 check also accompanied the delivery for the school. Meineke made the donation for the school after delivering the classic car on campus to the school’s dean and security director, John Coppin. Coppin entered the company’s
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– New numbers show Colorado Springs is slightly higher than the state unemployment rate. The Colorado Springs unemployment rate stands at 3.8 percent compared to the state rate of 3.6 percent. It’s somewhat of an anomaly because of the military presence, unemployment numbers typically remain low here. There are currently 20,000 open
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Authorities say that they don’t expect winds to be as strong in and around the city as they likely will be near Trinidad and Walsenburg, which often gets hit hardest in such conditions. But the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management is preparing for anything. “We’ve been meeting since
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)–A historic number of babies and toddlers with Respiratory Syntactical Virus (RSV) are being admitted into Southern Colorado hospitals. Children’s Hospital in Colorado Springs says its pediatric intensive care units and emergency departments are filling up this week. KRDO Newschannel 13 spoke with a family whose 11-month-old is one of the many babies
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A team of first responders, including one from Pueblo County and two from along the Front Range, recently spent a week in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to bring food and training to citizens in that country’s ongoing war with Russia. KRDO Ross Marsh, of Beulah, was one of six people
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)–Mental health experts in Southern Colorado are preparing for more calls from people seeking help in the wake of the Club Q shooting. Currently, Rocky Mountain Crisis has 230 employees ready to answer calls 24 hours a day. They are expecting the number of calls to increase next week as the Colorado Springs community
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Students from Pueblo Central High School raked in kindness recently for local seniors. The students helped beautify Pueblo recently, taking part in Rake Up Pueblo, cleaning up lawns of seniors of whom were unable to do the work themselves. Those teaming up with Kiwanis Club members were Tomas Salazar, Sylvia Tennant, Tasheena Calderon, Jonathon Cadena
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Gov. Jared Polis visited the memorial to victims outside Club Q, the LGBTQ+ club where a suspect killed five people and injured more than a dozen others in a shooting two weekends ago. KRDO Polis arrived at the memorial, near the intersection of Academy Boulevard and North Carefree Circle, shortly
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– On this ‘Giving Tuesday’ the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region is raising money to help neglected, homeless, and injured animals. Currently, there are about 100 animals inside the Humane Society at Pikes Peak that need extra care. The donations collected Tuesday will help those dogs and cats that are preparing for surgeries and other
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Neighbors in the historic Old North End neighborhood are expressing concern about proposed changes along Nevada Avenue, just north of the Colorado College campus, that they say would negatively impact larger homes and yards on both sides of the busy street. Old North End Neighborhood According to neighbors, a recently-completed
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