Author: Carlyn Ray Mitchell
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Fort Carson welcomes home 32nd Transportation Co.
More than 150 soldiers from the 32nd Transportation Company, 43rd Sustainment Brigade arrived safely back at Fort Carson Monday night after a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. The unit spent the year using heavy trucks to haul cargo such as water, fuel and ammunition to troops throughout Afghanistan, particularly those at Regional Command East at Bagram…
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Elderly driver killed in crash identified
The elderly man killed in a crash March 25 on Palmer Park Boulevard has been identified as 92-year-old Frederic Thompkins of Grand Junction. Thompkins was northbound in a Chevy Malibu on Northview Drive when he failed to yield at a stop sign when trying to turn west on Palmer Park Boulevard. The Malibu crossed the…
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Man’s death during brawl outside bar is city’s 4th homicide
Colorado Springs police have identified the man killed during a fight late Wednesday outside the Union Station Bar, 2419 N. Union Blvd, as 32-year-old Tyrone Lyles. Lyles died from head injuries and his death has been ruled a homicide by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office, the city’s fourth this year. Police did not say…
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Woman charged with drunken driving; child in back seat
A woman suspected of driving drunk with a 3-year-old child in the back seat was arrested Thursday afternoon after losing control of her car and crashing into a guardrail on Colorado Springs’ west side. Natalie Ohlsen faces charges of reckless endangerment, child abuse and DUI after the crash in the area of North Chestnut Street…
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Police: Man arrested in drug case, his infant daughter in tow
A man was arrested Wednesday after taking a marijuana pipe and his 14-month-old daughter to a drug deal along with an armed passenger, police said. About 11 a.m., four people in two cars delivered an ounce of cocaine to an undercover detective in the parking lot of the McDonald’s at 535 Airport Creek Point. David…
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April showers will also include some snowflakes
Consider spring sprung. Of course, in the Pikes Peak region, that doesn’t necessarily mean only rain and tulips. If history is an indication, snow will fall. April typically marks the end of the dry season and more consistently mild temperatures, and forecasters at the National Weather Service in Pueblo say this April will likely bring…
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High speeds, drunkenness needed for vehicular homicide charges
In the past two weeks, two Colorado Springs men have been arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, the most serious and infrequent of charges in car crashes involving a death. John R. Bentley, 34, who is accused of going 70 mph in a 40-mph zone and drunken driving, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide…
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Driver in fatal rollover accused of vehicular homicide
A suspected drunken driver was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide in a rollover crash last week on Stetson Hills Boulevard in which a passenger died, Colorado Springs police said. John R. Bentley, 34, was driving a Kia sedan east on Stetson Hills Boulevard last Thursday just before 8 p.m. at a high rate of…
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Zoo’s otter remains at large
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s runaway otter Kitchi was spotted on the Broadmoor Hotel’s golf course Thursday, but, despite a heavy rescue attempt by multiple agencies, the otter remains at large. After failed attempts to coax the North American river otter out of a culvert on the golf course by Broadmoor staff, Broadmoor Fire and Rescue…
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Rollover kills passenger on Stetson Hills Boulevard
Two people died in separate automobile crashes Thursday night in Colorado Springs. About 8 p.m., a car traveling at a high rate of speed on eastbound Stetson Hills Boulevard near Jedediah Smith Road rolled at least twice, ejecting a passenger in the back seat, said Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Lonnie Spanswick, of the major accidents…