Author: Carlyn Ray Mitchell
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Facebook takes anxiety out of planning for reunions
This time last year, Vanessa Smith and Dianne Bertini, cheerleaders at Woodland Park High School nearly 20 years ago, found each other on Facebook, the social-networking Web site.The two women, both event planners living in Colorado Springs, began e-mailing regularly.“We got together, and had such a ball together, and just decided, wouldn’t it be fun…
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South Dakota fugitive captured in Park County
A South Dakota woman suspected of attempting to kill her parents in Rapid City was arrested Wednesday in Park County after a three-week search that included a standoff at what turned out to be an empty motel room in Colorado Springs. Casey Eleeson, 22, was captured by a multicounty SWAT team in a subdivision near…
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Police: Woman arrested after pulling gun on cops
A 68-year-old woman was arrested Thursday afternoon after pulling a gun on police officers called to the house to check into her welfare, police said. Virginia McNamura’s neighbors called police after McNamura threatened suicide and stopped answering the phone or door. When police arrived at her home, in the 2900 block of Illinois Avenue, McNamura…
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No injuries in house fire near Peyton
Several fire agencies in eastern El Paso County rushed to put out a fully engulfed mobile home near Peyton tonight. The Ellicott Fire Department got the call for the blaze at 23330 Jones Rd. about 6:22 p.m., said El Paso County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Teresa Murphy. The fire was put out by 7:20 p.m. The home…
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South-side Springs gas station robbed
A man threatened to beat a cashier at a south-side Colorado Springs gas station Wednesday if she didn’t hand over money from the register, police said. The robber went behind the register at the Conoco at 2350 Hancock Ave. at about 6 p.m. and demanded money, police said. The cashier, whose name wasn’t released, told…
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Walgreens robbed in northern Springs
The Walgreens at 4315 Centennial Blvd. was robbed Wednesday evening by a man who implied he had a weapon, Colorado Springs Police said. The man held open the cash register and told the cashier to put all of the money in a Walgreens bag. No weapon was seen. The man took off with an undisclosed…
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Car used by shooting suspect is found
Colorado Springs Police on Friday found the car believed to have been driven by a man wanted for attempted murder in a shooting early Thursday morning. Police say Thomas Freeman Bagley III, 28, got into a fight with the victim outside the Kittyhawk Apartments, 2914 N. Arcadia St. He then left the apartment complex driving…
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Popular hip-hop club tries to keep trouble at bay
Though a self-described melting pot for the city’s social butterflies, there are about 40 people who are never welcome at 13 Pure. “Ninety-nine percent of the people are here to have fun,” co-owner Scott Collman said Friday night. “Once we identify who the fringe people are, they’re out of here.” The club keeps the “fringe”…
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At-risk man missing
Colorado Springs Police are asking for help locating a 78-year-old at-risk man who has been missing since this morning. John Florentino, who suffers from dimentia and may be incoherent, was last seen around 8:45 a.m. in the area of 3800 Dewpoint Drive, near Research Parkway and Rangewood Drive. He was last wearing a green wool…
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Tow-truck driver shot with BB gun
A tow-truck driver attempting to tow a car from an apartment parking lot tonight was confronted by a group of residents and shot in the neck with a BB gun, police said. About a dozen people confronted John Stellabote of J and J Towing, who was towing the car at the Casa Linda Apartments, 3650…