Author: Doug Gould
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Fuentes picked for All-Star Game
If you’re hoping for a bumper crop next year, launching a garden after harvest season’s sunset may be jumping the gun. But on an Army post where training and preparation are key, the timing is just right, said Kelly Hurtado, director of the Fort Carson Head Start Center. Nearly 60 volunteers, including soldiers from the…
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WITHERING HOPES
Friends of a decorated Navy SEAL who died rescuing a Colorado Springs doctor in Afghanistan on Saturday remembered him as a strong student who had his heart set on joining the military. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, of Monroeville, Pa., died from a single gunshot wound to the head in the…
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Son of legend just misses win
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The military’s small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind. The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday hidden on top of an Atlas V rocket. As if on cue, clouds quickly swallowed…
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Drivers striving for more than wins at PPIR
Carefully removing a camouflage cover, Col. James Mingus signaled the return of most soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team early Sunday morning by unfurling the units’s flag at Fort Carson. About 150 soldiers with the brigade returned to Colorado early Sunday. It was the latest in a series of flights back…
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Astros run wild against Closser
An Air Force Academy cadet charged in September in a sexual misconduct case was confined Monday night to the Teller County jail after an allegation surfaced that he broke another military law. Jamil D. Cooks, a junior, was awaiting an evidence hearing when an academy squadron commander ordered him confined in jail, according a statement…
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Biggio’s bruises finally pay off
PHOTOS: Fort Carson welcomed home about 500 soldiers in two waves Monday. SPC Richard Hedger and his best friend from Connecticut Christopher Scanlon wait outside the Fort Carson Special Events Center after Hedger returned home from Afghanistan with 270 of his fellow soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat team Monday, December 3, Photo by MICHAEL…
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Once Clemens leaves, Rockies find way to win
PHOTOS: Fort Carson welcomed home about 500 soldiers in two waves Monday. SPC Richard Hedger and his best friend from Connecticut Christopher Scanlon wait outside the Fort Carson Special Events Center after Hedger returned home from Afghanistan with 270 of his fellow soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat team Monday, December 3, Photo by MICHAEL…
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Houston presents a problem
DENVER — An aging former prison in southeast Colorado is unusable for many purposes and should be turned into transitional housing for the chronically homeless, state budget-writers were told Thursday. The governor’s office is asking for $840,000 — and an additional $6 million or so over the next two fiscal years — to repurpose the…
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Rockies get back to basics to sweep Royals
Spc. Jessica Foust never wore a pearly white dress. Nor did her husband-to-be, Sgt. Trevor Foust, don a tuxedo and watch her walk down an aisle flanked by family and friends. The two went to a courthouse and filled out the required paperwork to be married on Feb. 17. A month later, separate planes took…