Author: Todd Jacobson
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Falcons say they’re better after Week 2
The Greatest Generations Foundation to facilitate intergenerational program for closure and education Denver, CO – When Wilson Colwell was 15 years old in 1943, he decided that he had had enough school and that he wanted to join the army. So, one afternoon, he left school in the middle of class, and rode his…
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Div. I-AA foe gives AFA fits
An Air Force Academy cadet died Tuesday while on summer leave in Las Vegas, the academy announced in a news release. Cadet 2nd Class Yung C. Chin, a junior, was a member of the Class of 2014 and a biology major. “Our Air Force Academy family suffered a tragic loss this week,” Commandant of Cadets…
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Air Force coach says defense has work to do
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2012 – An Afghan and coalition security force detained several suspected insurgents during a search for a Taliban improvised explosive device expert in the Ghorak district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province today, military officials reported. The expert constructs IEDs and supplies them to Taliban leaders throughout the region for use in attacks against…
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Judge: Pills can be used in cadet’s case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky woman seeking compensation for the shooting death of her son at Fort Bliss, Texas, will get a chance to argue why her quest should go forward. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals set an oral argument date for July 17 in a lawsuit brought by Renee Richardson of Louisville…
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Falcons to take out aggression on Eagles
The Department of Veterans Affairs has signed a 20-year lease on a 76,000-square-foot VA outpatient clinic in Colorado Springs that has been green-lighted, but is at least two years from opening. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., announced the lease on the Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, which will sit on 18 acres at the corner of West Fillmore…
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Rodgers gets respect
RENO, Nev. — Plunging back into divisive politics, President Obama on Monday declared he has kept the United States safe while suggesting that Republican Mitt Romney has offered little to show he is ready to be commander in chief. Mere days after a massacre in Colorado silenced the campaign in deference to the grieving, the…
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Air Force sets policy for recruits
The former Army Ranger who had threatened to kill his fiancee, her boyfriend and himself turned himself in about 7:30 p.m. Monday, Colorado Springs police say. Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state, where the former Ranger is stationed, informed Springs about 3 a.m. Tuesday that Joshua Daner had turned himself in. Fort Carson police…
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Falcon QB trying to survive
ST. LOUIS – The mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater rattled the nerves of some other moviegoers with opening weekend tickets for the new Batman film and led some cinema chains to add more guards. Experts say it’s unlikely, though, that venues will implement even stricter security measures because it would significantly alter the…