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  • Tips identify wanted man no charges

    LOVELAND, Colo. - Deputies have identified and interviewed the man who scared a 13-year-old girl on Tuesday when he offered her a ride home from school.The girl told investigators a man driving a car followed her as she walked home from Carrie Martin Elementary School in Loveland and then offered her a ride, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.The girl ran into the school and ...

  • Containers needed for OKC victims

    The Colorado Springs Home Builders Association is taking donations for victims of the Oklahoma City tornado. Victims are needing suit cases with rollers, crates, and any storage containers. They are accepting donations at the Freedom Financial Services Expo Center, 3650 N. Nevada in the Springs, until 8:00 pm tonight. The HBA is expecting to have the donations in Oklahoma by this weekend. ...

  • Springs water quality report out

    The annual water quality report for Colorado Springs is out. Even with concerns about contaminated runoff from the Waldo Canyon Fire, quality remains good. The EPA requires that the report be sent to all Springs Utilities customers. This year the report can be reviewed on line by going to the CSU web site. This first time access will save CSU thousands of ...

  • Wheat Ridge doctor pleads guilty in oxycodone pill mill case

    Jefferson County osteopath Kevin Clemmer pleaded guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone, a synthetic opiate, in U.S. District Court in Denver on Thursday. Clemmer, 59, faces not more than 20 years in federal prison on the illegal distribution charge and not more than 10 years on a second count of engaging in a monetary transaction involving criminal activity. The plea bargain he negotiated ...

  • Floridas CNL is selling resort villages including Copper Mountain

    The largest resort owner in North America is testing the market by listing seven of its resort villages - including Copper Mountain's base village - for $142.5 million."We are exploring what pricing the market might deliver for that portfolio," said Steve Rice, managing director of Florida real-estate investment trust CNL Lifestyle Co.CNL's portfolio includes eight Eastern ...

Movie Review

The River [DVD]

The River [DVD]

Jean Renoir's The River is one of the most fascinating multinational productions of its era. An independently financed American film directed by a French expatriate about British colonists shot entirely in India (then a strangely exotic and relatively unknown country in the West), The Ri ... ...

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  • Bombing suspect linked to triple slaying

    ORLANDO, Fla. - A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida during a confrontation with an FBI agent implicated himself and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the unsolved 2011 murders of three men, one of them Tsarnaev's best friend, according to news reports.Ibragim Todashev's Chechen roots and mixed martial arts background mirror that of Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old ...

  • Water Battles in El Paso County

    Water, or the lack of it, has been a problem for years for residents living in the Cherokee Metropolitan District. It's a small enclave of homes and businesses on the eastern edge of Colorado Springs. Cherokee Metro has a new water source, but it's going to impact neighbors in the Black Forest neighborhood in northern El Paso County. A battle is growing between homeowners there, and ...

  • Cooler and gray today

    More rain is possible along the Southern Front Range today, but unlike the past couple of days the afternoon should be mostly quiet. Our Thursday will begin with clouds and perhaps some spotty areas of light rain. Temperatures will hold steady under the clouds in the 50's for most of us throughout the first half or the day. After the noon hour, the clouds will break up and finally start the ...

  • Denver summer festival preview Denver Day of Rock 2013

    Denver Day of Rock takes over the Sixteenth Street Mall area of downtown Denver each Memorial Day weekend, bringing a great selection of local and national talent together on multiple outdoor stages to benefit Concerts for Kids, a nonprofit organization funding several local children's charities. The 2013 Day of Rock will take place this Saturday, May 25, with live music starting at 2:30 ...

  • The Eight Most Xenophobic Stances Of Tom Tancredo Candidate For Colorado Governor

    grant a temporary reprieve to an inmate on Death Row. Over his five terms in Congress, his single-issue anti-immigrant White House bid, and various other political campaigns, Tancredo has earned a reputation as one of America’s most ...

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