Author: Carlyn Ray Mitchell
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Child molester who skipped out while jury is out found, arrested
Colorado Springs police have arrested a convicted child molester who left the El Paso County courthouse Tuesday while jurors were deliberating and never returned. Theodore “Theo” William Griffin III, 23, was followed in a car that left from a home he was known to frequent, police said Wednesday night. Police established probable cause to pull…
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New restriction at dangerous railroad crossing
Only passenger cars are allowed to cross the railroad tracks at Royer Street between Las Vegas Street and Fountain Boulevard, the scene of a train versus bus accident in December, the city of Colorado Springs announced today. December 15, tour bus got stuck when it high-centered on the tracks on the steep slope just south…
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Fire destroys Fountain home; woman treated for smoke inhalation
A woman was treated for smoke inhalation and she and her family were displaced after a fire destroyed their rental home in Fountain on Friday night. Firefighters found the woman inside the front door when they arrived, and flames were coming out of three windows of the house at 103 S. Race St., according to…
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Co-founder of Home Front Cares charity dies
Those who knew retired Air Force Col. Joe Henjum say the community has lost a “prince among men.” Henjum, the co-founder of Home Front Cares, a nonprofit that serves military families in the Pikes Peak region, died Friday morning at his home after a long battle with bone cancer, said John Haaren, Home Front Cares’…
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House fire in northern Springs displaces three people
Three people were displaced tonight after a house fire in north-central Colorado Springs. The fire, in the 5200 block of Tomah Circle, was contained to a bedroom, but the damage affects the structural integrity of the house, said Colorado Springs Fire Lt. James Eddy. The call came in at 6:17 p.m., and the blaze was…
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Head-on collision kills 1, injures 5 north of Cripple Creek
A woman was killed and five people were injured Tuesday afternoon in a head-on collision on Highway 67 north of Cripple Creek. The crash occurred about 4 p.m. The woman, whose name and age were not released Tuesday night, was in a Chevy Impala that collided with a Dodge Nitro. Three people were airlifted to Memorial…
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Mood generally relaxed as late shoppers hit the stores
John and Sarah Hutton on Thursday pushed the eleventh hour to the twelfth. Waiting at the Apple Store at the The Shops at Briargate to get his iPhone fixed, the couple had just more than an hour to get to Chapel Hills Mall before it closed at 6 p.m. so they could shop for each…
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Donor gives homeless campers a room for a week
Steve Sample, 52, sat shirtless Wednesday in a room at the Express Inn across from Fountain Creek, sharing a cigarette with a friend. “It is kind of nice to sit not all bundled up,” Sample said, the heater blasting next to him. He and about 14 others will not sit all bundled up this week,…
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Springs puts police copters up for sale, pilots on the ground
The Colorado Springs Police Department has lost its wings. In a decommissioning ceremony Tuesday, the department bid farewell to its Air Support Unit, one police budget line on a list of many that were cut because of projected city budget shortfalls in 2010. After 13 years of service — the most recent of which carried…
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7-year-old dies in minivan rollover
A 7-year-old Colorado Springs boy was killed Friday morning after a minivan driven by his mom rolled over on Interstate 25 in Las Animas County. The Colorado State Patrol said Christy Sue Mosman was southbound on I-25 about 7:30 a.m. when her 2003 Kia Sedona went off the right side of the road. Mosman overcorrected, and the…