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As flood danger looms, Weather Service never sleeps
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Days after the Waldo Canyon fire started, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Pueblo issued their first flash-flood warning in the fire area. They took heat for it. Another complication for firefighters, some…
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VIDEO: Watering restrictions start next week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Drought conditions in the Pikes Peak region forced the Colorado Springs City Council to adopt water restrictions on Tuesday limiting residents to watering lawns just two days per week. Colorado Springs is not the only…
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As flood danger looms, Weather Service never sleeps
Days after the Waldo Canyon fire started, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Pueblo issued their first flash-flood warning in the fire area. They took heat for it. Another complication for firefighters, some said. Others wanted the rain, especially during such a horrific blaze. Some apparently thought that a flash-flood warning would send…
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VIDEO: Watering restrictions start next week
Drought conditions in the Pikes Peak region forced the Colorado Springs City Council to adopt water restrictions on Tuesday limiting residents to watering lawns just two days per week. Colorado Springs is not the only municipality in the area encouraging residents to jump on the conservation bandwagon. Woodland Park began restrictions Tuesday and Monument has…
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NOREEN: Watering restrictions are here again
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Because Colorado Springs residents soon will be subject to watering restrictions, does that mean they’ll be monitored by water police? Or is that the wrong term? Should we call them the lack-of-thunderstorm-troopers? Seriously, residents have…
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Aurora theater shooting suspect offers guilty plea
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — James Holmes is willing to spend the rest of his life in prison if it means there’s no chance he’ll be executed. Now prosecutors have to decide whether that’s a deal they’re willing to…
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OUR VIEW: State mismanages pot regulation (poll)
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Advocates of marijuana legalization promoted virtues of order that appeal to the masses. They said taxation and regulation are better than black market mayhem that cannot generate taxes and fees. It they were right in…
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CBI: Woman arrested for illegal gun transfer in Clements case
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The felon suspected of shooting state prisons chief Tom Clements last week obtained the firearm from a 22-year-old Commerce City woman, authorities said Wednesday evening. Agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation arrested Stevie Marie…
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Aurora theater shooting suspect offers guilty plea
DENVER — James Holmes is willing to spend the rest of his life in prison if it means there’s no chance he’ll be executed. Now prosecutors have to decide whether that’s a deal they’re willing to make with the former graduate student accused in last summer’s Colorado movie theater massacre. For former prosecutor Bob Gallagher, an…
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OUR VIEW: State mismanages pot regulation (poll)
Advocates of marijuana legalization promoted virtues of order that appeal to the masses. They said taxation and regulation are better than black market mayhem that cannot generate taxes and fees. It they were right in theory, government dysfunction may undermine their claims. Colorado state auditors issued a damning 89-page report Tuesday that highlights an array…