Author: Bill Mckeown
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Airlines canceling flights ahead of storm
Flights were being canceled or delayed at airports in Denver and Colorado Springs this morning, in anticipation of a major winter storm.Airport representatives said they did not yet have the number of flights affected but urged people flying today to call their airlines for updated information before heading to Denver International Airport or the Colorado…
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Man guilty of beating ex-girlfriend
A jury Thursday found a man guilty of breaking the jaw and battering a woman who had given birth to his son seven months earlier, and the man will now stand trial on charges he killed her less than two months after the May 27, 2007, assault. Salvator Esquivel-Castillo, 37, was found guilty of first-degree…
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Woman’s slaying muddles man’s trial in assault case
A parade of prosecution witnesses took the stand Tuesday in a 4th Judicial District courtroom to testify that Jaclyn Funderburg, a 22-year-old mother, had told them reluctantly that her ex-boyfriend hit her with both fists on May 27, 2007, breaking her jaw in two places. But it was what was left unsaid that most characterized…
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Son will be tried in surgeon’s killing
A 4th Judicial District judge Thursday found there is enough evidence to try a 36-year-old man for first- and second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his father, a Colorado Springs surgeon, on Nov. 20, 2008. Immediately after the ruling, attorney Ed Farry entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for his…
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Shoddy lawyer, new DNA cited for new trial request
A man who has spent about a decade in prison for a 1991 double homicide in Colorado Springs deserves a new trial because he was incompetently represented and because new DNA evidence suggests others may have been the killers, his lawyers said Wednesday. Timothy Kennedy, 52, was convicted in 1997 of shooting 15-year-old Jennifer Carpenter…
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Teen shown leniency during sentencing
An 18-year-old Colorado Springs man was sentenced Friday to four-and-a-half years in the Youthful Offender System for the 2008 shooting of a man he apparently was trying to rob of drugs and money. Anthony Moore, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the June 30, 2008, killing of Matthew Webb, 22, also received a 12-year prison…
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Ruthie’s adds soul to skiing
Bored with the mega-resort ski “experience” – the lift-line shuffle, the pasteurized runs, the zombielike iPod users?You need a shot of soul in your skiing. Let’s take a run on Aspen Mountain, specifically the west, or “Ruthie’s” side, arguably the most soulful, flowing – and certainly the most historic – network of runs in Colorado.…
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Colorado Supreme Court orders new trial in soldier stabbing case
A former Fort Carson soldier serving life in prison for a fatal stabbing in 2003 deserves a new trial, the Colorado Supreme Court has decided. The state’s highest court decided late last week that a 4th Judicial District judge undermined Jesse Joe Kaufman’s claim of self-defense by giving improper instructions to a jury that later…
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Judge finds probable cause to try Esquivel-Castillo on first-degree assault in Funderburg case
UPDATE/ASSAULT AND HOMICIDE THE CASE: Salvator Esquivel-Castillo is charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder in the killing of his former girlfriend Jaclyn Funderburg, 22, in July 2007. Her battered body was found at the base of a cliff southeast of Marksheffel Road and Space Village Avenue, near a mobile home where the suspect lived with…
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Transit tax $2 million less than budgeted in 2008
Sales tax revenue that supports transit and road maintenance and building in the region came in at about $2 million less than budgeted in 2008.The decline in revenues from a one-cent sales tax for the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (RTA) mirrors those experienced by Colorado Springs and El Paso County, as a crippled economy…