Author: Andrea Brown
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Raffle ticket could open doors to $1.3 million dream home in Woodland Park
WOODLAND PARK – For a mere $100 raffle ticket, Al Wilson’s million-dollar mountainside dream house could be yours. Sound too good to be true? It is, if you don’t have another $450,000 or so handy to pay the taxes on the place. The Pikes Peak Rotary Club is gambling that ticket buyers will worry about…
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A chance to weigh in on a town’s identity
MONUMENT – It’s anything but politics as usual in this bustling bedroom community. The town is having a contested election for the first time in nine years after huge turnover on the seven-member Board of Trustees in recent months. In the last year, Monument endured the resignations of its mayor and three trustees. So Monument’s…
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YOUR SPACE: He’s still a beefcake dad at the beach
Roadside bombs exploded. Grenades hit his truck. Shrapnel tore into his back. But Sgt. Steven Defino stayed with the convoy on that dark road in Iraq. “I reached back,” he says, “and I felt part of my back wasn’t really there. My glove was dripping blood.” Alone in his truck, Defino had nobody to save…
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YOUR SPACE: Rescue me, come on baby, rescue me!
Air Force goalie Andrew Volkening led his class to 84 wins and three NCAA Tournament berths in four years. Photo by
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YOUR SPACE: Who ya gonna call? Search & Rescue
Stephanie Hammar was convinced she was a goner. The top of Barr Trail is a bad place to have a heart attack. But there she was last summer at twilight, delirious and dying — a shock for the fit 42-year-old who felt fine going up. To reach her, the El Paso County Search and…
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Springs motorcycle officer on DUI patrol injured in crash
A Colorado Springs Police officer on DUI patrol was injured early Saturday when his motorcycle collided with a suspected drunken driver. Sgt. Philip LeBeau was driving south on Tejon Street at Vermijo Avenue about 1 a.m. when police said a KIA Optima driven by Raymond Laracuente, 27, turned left in front of him. LeBeau’s motorcycle…
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St. Patrick’s Day runners join forces with soldiers doing Jalalabad Jig
Maghen Larson had one thing on her mind during Saturday’s 5K St. Patrick’s Day race. It wasn’t to pass the sea of bright green shirts on the hundreds of runners who took to the streets of downtown Colorado Springs. Her thoughts were on a fellow runner about 7,000 miles away — her husband, Spc. Anthony…
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Busy night for police on city’s southeast side
Fights involving guns outside three businesses in the South Academy Boulevard corridor between Airport Road and Hancock Expressway kept Colorado Springs police busy early today. About 1:40 a.m. a man was shot in the leg in the parking lot of Golden Cue Bar, 2790 Hancock Expressway, police said. The gunman fled when police arrived and was…
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Suspect in attempted-murder case back behind bars
A man who didn’t return to the courthouse Thursday after a break in his bond-revocation hearing is back in custody. Jessie Kaizen, 23, was booked into the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on Saturday. Bond is set at more than $200,000. Records show six warrants against Kaizen, who was wanted on a warrant for contempt of court…
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Man assaulted answering his door
A resident at Shannon Glen Apartments, 210 N. Murray Blvd., was struck in the face early today when he answered a knock on his door. Colorado Springs police said the man was knocked to the ground by four men who entered the apartment and rummaged through drawers. It is unknown if anything was taken. The victim was…