COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – New data obtained by 13 Investigates shows car theft rates statewide are down. Law enforcement in Pueblo believes new law changes that strengthened the punishments for stealing vehicles contributed to the drastic drop. In 2022, Colorado was considered the number one state when it came to auto theft rates. In
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A community group that formed two years ago to oversee a $60 million renovation of the old downtown City Auditorium has announced that those plans have been “paused.” KRDO In a statement released Tuesday night, Linda Weise, president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective (CSCCC), explained that
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AGUILAR, Colo. (KRDO) — More than $115,000 of property tax revenue has been withheld from the Town of Aguilar for failing to file financial audits with the state in the last four years. State law requires all municipalities to file an audit each year unless they are given an exemption. According to the Office of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – On Wednesday, Aug. 30, several volunteers from Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center arrived at the Colorado Springs Care and Share Food Bank to help pack 400 food boxes for veterans and active duty military members. All of this was done to give back to the community during the annual ‘Patriot Day
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — County Engineer Joshua Palmer received permission from the Board of Commissioners Tuesday to apply for federal grants; the grant funding will help reallocate some current funds from one project to help smaller projects that are either unfunded or underfunded. The other projects are on Bradley and Galley roads. KRDO
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PUEBLO WEST, Colo. (KRDO) – A Pueblo West man is recovering at home after almost losing his life following a rattlesnake bite. On Aug. 11, around 8:50 p.m., Luis Linhares went outside to grab a backpack out of his car. He told KRDO he had only taken five steps outside his door when a rattlesnake
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County District Attorney’s office told a judge Monday that it “had no recourse” in dropping charges of first-degree murder and tampering with a deceased human body against Miles Kirby, in connection to the death of his girlfriend and mother of their children, Joslyn Teetzel. KRDO Prosecutors recently
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — This marks the 151st year for the statewide event that began in 1872, and walking around the fairgrounds it seems as though there are more than 151 things to see and do. Cuteness is on display at the Children’s Barnyard, where younger kids can cuddle with chicks, lambs, piglets and other
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A new school year brings new classes, going back to extracurricular activities, and new experiences. For some, however, a new school year could bring anxiety. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, roughly 31.9% of adolescents between 13 and 18 have an anxiety disorder. Of those children, an estimated
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – It was last August that former mayor John Suthers called for the creation of a new crew of public works employees to do additional removal of litter and mowing of weeds. “The efforts that we’re already doing in the city just aren’t enough to keep up,” Suthers said at the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Fire Department responded to a working two-alarm fire Thursday in southeast Colorado Springs. The CSFD said that crews responded just before 11:30 a.m. to 3315 Drennan Industrial Loop South, in a pile of scrap metal behind American Iron & Metal second alarm has been called. “We don’t
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Now that most repairs to damaged roadways and infrastructure have been made following catastrophic flooding and storms in June, El Paso County officials have contacted a second federal agency while awaiting word on an earlier request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). KRDO On Tuesday, the Board of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — In November, Colorado Springs voters will decide whether or not $4.75 million of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) retention funds will go toward a new Colorado Springs Police Academy. On Tuesday, the Colorado Springs City Council voted 7-1 (Councilman Mike O’Malley was absent) to place a TABOR retention item
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– A man is now in custody after crashing into a mailbox, firing multiple rounds from a gun, and attempting to leave the scene by running to a ravine along Broadmoor Valley Drive, near the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD), the adult male, whose identity has
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) released statewide test scores for the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) 2023 test. The standardized test scores show students in many southern Colorado school districts are lagging when it comes to meeting grade-level expectations. The test, which covers math, English, and science,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A yearlong process ended Monday with the police department’s announcement of hiring an independent analyst to audit officer procedures such as use-of-force, de-escalation tactics and other police procedures. Police said that department leaders and community leaders — including the Law Enforcement Transparency and Advisory Commission (LETAC) — evaluated several auditing
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is investigating an early morning shooting that left an unidentified man dead. The CSPD responded to reports of shots fired at the Wind River Place apartments, near the intersection 19th and Uintah streets, at about 2:40 a.m. on Monday, August 21. KRDO A sergeant
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) – Historic gravestone repair volunteers Steve Plutt and Linda Allred were volunteering at Woodland Park Cemetery on Thursday, Aug. 17 when they found that two gravestones had been damaged in an apparent hit-and-run. While one had been knocked off its base and slid about ten feet towards one to the right
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Editor’s note: This article includes graphic information about suicide. EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – A Fountain man originally accused of killing his girlfriend is set to be released from jail after the victim’s cause of death changed from homicide to suicide. During a hearing Friday morning, it was revealed the El Paso County Coroner’s Office
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — New Mayor Yemi Mobolade and police Chief Adrian Vasquez spent 90 minutes Thursday showing why the city badly needs a new and expanded facility to train new and existing officers. KRDO Mobolade and Vasquez took local media on a tour of the police training academy, near the intersection of Platte
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