Author: Ryan Maye Handyy

Nearly four months after the Waldo Canyon fire roared into Colorado Springs, the city’s first official after action report on the deadly blaze will be released Tuesday. The city’s Communications Office said it’s only the initial after-action report. A full report will be released in the first quarter of 2013. Members of Mayor Steve Bach’s…

The Parkside community of 178 homes was almost entirely destroyed in the Waldo Canyon fire, leaving behind a hot-bed of development and homeowner’s association tangles that have made rebuilding unusually complicated — and for some residents, undesirable. Before the fire, the neighborhood just east of Flying W Ranch Road and south of Chuckwagon Road was…

A 64-year-old woman is presumed dead after an overnight fire gutted her home in Widefield early Thursday. The fire was reported about 1:15 a.m. at 475 Cielo Vista St., and firefighters from the Security Fire District and Fort Carson responded to the blaze, said to Lt. Jeff Kramer, a spokesman for the El Paso County…

Police tracked a robber through west and southwest Colorado Springs on Wednesday as the man threw money out of the silver Volkswagen he was driving. David Anderson, 26, was arrested near the Antlers Hilton hotel, where someone called to report a man handing out cash in the lobby, Colorado Springs police said. Anderson, wearing a…

Colorado Springs police arrested five Iraqi men Tuesday in connection with what they called a “rare” and “horrific” sexual assault on a woman early July 22. The arrests included one man who was a central character in an Army’s sergeant’s memoir of an Iraq deployment. Sarmad Fadhi Mohammed and Jasim Mohammed Hasin Ramadon were taken…

An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday afternoon in connection with an early morning shooting that left two men dead and sent another two people to the hospital. Police identified one of the two men who died at the scene as Marquise Bean, 20. The identity of the second man had not been confirmed, police said.…

A large fire in a Stratmoor Valley mobile home park gutted one home and filled the neighborhood with smoke Wednesday morning. Firefighters from Stratmoor Hills, Fort Carson and Colorado Springs were all on scene at 1225 Denise Drive in the mobile home park as they battled the blaze in frigid conditions. Crews had to be…

More than 425 Fort Carson soldiers joined forces early Friday to stymie a common enemy: Old Man Winter. Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team Raiders, 4th Infantry Division donned backpacks and Santa hats as they unloaded heaps of donated winter clothing and food during Operation Happy Holiday at the Marian House. The soldiers marched…