Author: Glenn Wallace
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Meridian fire burning east of Colorado Springs
A grass fire burning east of Colorado Springs near Schriever Space Force Base has prompted mandatory evacuation orders Thursday
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Repeat offender busted by Colorado Springs police with child porn
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man with a long history of possessing child pornography has been charged by Colorado Springs police for keeping a cellphone with dozens of explicit illegal photos. According to court documents obtained by The Gazette, the man, 56-year-old Alan Wencker, had been in a counseling…
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Gas leak closes intersection west of downtown Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A gas leak has led to an extended closure of the West Bijou Street and North Spruce Street intersection. Colorado Springs Utilities announced the natural gas line leak, and subsequent intersection closure, shortly after 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The intersection is closed to all traffic, according…
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The rise and fall of former Mobolade booster Derrick Bernard Jr., and his radio station, The Slide
There was a time — just last year, in fact — when Derrick Bernard Jr. was by all appearances a respected community activist and rap artist in Colorado Springs. But in November he was convicted of first-degree murder, and separately indicted in federal court for a hate crime hoax. In the federal indictment, the 35-year-old Black man,…
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Two southbound lanes on I-25 closed between Baptist Road and Northgate Boulevard for crash
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A traffic crash has closed two lanes of southbound Interstate 25, between Baptist Road and Northgate Boulevard, north of Colorado Springs. The traffic accident, located at mile marker 156, closed the two center lanes sometime before 6:30 p.m. today, and does not yet have an…
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New details emerge on fatal shooting at Woodland Park grocery store parking lot
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A dispute during a child custody exchange outside a City Market grocery store in Woodland Park led to a fatal shooting, according to a news release Monday from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Woodland Park police responded to the 700 block of Gold Hill Place South…
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Colorado Springs man gets prison sentence for meth and fentanyl trafficking
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A traffic stop led to a major drug bust, and now a 23-year prison sentence for Colorado Springs resident Michael Hemersbach, 36. Hemersbach pleaded guilty Nov. 7 in a Douglas County courtroom to possession with intent to manufacture or distribute fentanyl, possession with intent to…
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Charges dropped against Colorado Springs police officer accused in case involving 10-year-old
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Investigators have dropped the case against a Colorado Springs Police Department sergeant, who was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with a minor — though charges of intimidating a witness and violation of a protection order remain. Gazette news partner KOAA confirmed with the Woodland Park…
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At-risk juvenile missing from southeast Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs Police Department has asked for community assistance in locating a missing at-risk 13-year-old. Demetrius Foster was last seen today in the 3100 Block of Harpy Grove, close to the Chelton Road and Hancock Expressway intersection in the southeast portion of the city.…
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Two recent Colorado Springs motorcycle fatalities ID’d
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Both motorcyclists who died in unrelated crashes in Colorado Springs on Nov. 3 have been identified by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office. The man who died when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle in the 500 block of West Garden of the Gods Road…