Author: Carlyn Ray Mitchell
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Reward offered for stolen wagon wheel information
A $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the return of six antique wagon wheels stolen last week from the Hornbek Homestead at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Bandits made off with the wagon wheels Thursday night. The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds is offering the reward. Two wheels damaged…
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Police asking for help locating assault victim
Colorado Springs police are searching for a man injured June 6 in an assault in a southside apartment. Witnesses told police the man, described as a hispanic male in his late 20s, sustained “significant injuries” during the assault inside an apartment at the Copper Chase Apartment Complex, 2033 Southgate Rd. The man has not been…
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Event aims to fight exploitation of seniors
The Coalition Against Abuse in Later Life is hosting a community event at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the El Pomar Foundation, Penrose House, 1661 Mesa Ave., to raise awareness and to recognize efforts to curb physical and financial exploitation of the growing elderly population.About 87,000 people over the age of 60 are in El Paso…
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Soldier killed in crash had just come home from war
A man killed in a crash early Monday has been identified as a 23-year-old Fort Carson soldier who had returned home two weeks ago after a year in combat in Afghanistan. Spc. Michael Valiant Colister was a passenger in a Honda Accord traveling north on Academy Boulevard that went off the right side of the…
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Multiple grass fires burning along I-25
Several fire agencies are working together to put out multiple grass fires along Interstate 25 between mile markers 124 and 116 near Fountain. Check back to gazettedev.gazette.com for more information. Seniors prayed before lunch Tuesday at Westside Community Center. Meals and care for seniors are among the programs available at the center, where a local…
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Police: Motorcyclist dies in crash after running red light
A 42-year-old man on a motorcycle died of injuries suffered in a crash after he ran a red light east of downtown, Colorado Springs police said. The identity of the motorcyclist, who police Sgt. Rob Kelley said was not wearing a helmet, was not released. He died while en route to Memorial Hospital The motorcyclist…
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Fire crews knock down roof fire
Colorado Springs firefighters are putting out a roof fire that started when workers were laying new shingles on a home just east of downtown. The fire started around 3 p.m., and crews had to attack flames that spread to part of the attic of the house in the 300 block of South Prospect Street, said…
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Police officer shoots suspect dead in Springs
A suspect in a Colorado Springs police investigation was shot dead Friday night by a uniformed officer at the Greentree Village Apartments on North Carefree Circle near Academy Boulevard, police said. Police were investigating in the area when the suspect ran across North Carefree Circle into the Greentree apartment complex, where he was shot, said…
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Highway 67 closed near Divide after semi rolls over
Both directions of Highway 67 in Teller County are closed near Divide after a semi rolled over. There are no reported injuries in the crash. Paul Pegler of Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group measures coffee while packaging it for a Littleton, Colo., Cub Scout fundraiser Wednesday, June 2, 2010. The group has partnered with iBean…
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Shooting death ruled city’s 8th homicide
The man shot to death inside a south central Colorado Springs home last week has been identified as 20-year-old Ronald Raymon Gutierrez Jr., and his death ruled the city’s eighth homicide this year. The 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office has yet to rule if the May 6 shooting was justified. According to police, Gutierrez came…