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Your Colorado Fun Guide
A long weekend is a good time to explore Colorado, a summer playground for natives, residents and visitors from around the world. This section is dedicated to many of the fun things this state has to offer. While by no means a comprehensive list that touches on every park, trail, fair,...
VIDEO: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo keepers have hands full with herd of baby animals
The pitter-patter of little feet sounds more like a herd at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. May has been a month of babies. A red river hoglet, a porcupette, three lynx kittens and two wallaby joeys arrived in recent weeks. The baby porcupine was born on May 8, soon followed by the lynx...
Fort Carson welcomes 14 engineers home from Afghanistan
Fourteen Fort Carson soldiers returned to Colorado Springs Thursday afternoon after seven months spent improving and expanding American military instillations in Afghanistan. It was a short and smooth deployment for the soldiers of the 52nd Engineer Battalion's 40th Engineer Detachment. The...
VIDEO: Wasson High School closes books on 54 years of history
At first glance, Thursday seemed like a typical last day of school for the Thunderbirds of Wasson High. With finals under their belts, students emptied their lockers, hugged teachers, shed some tears, pledged to stay in touch and turned an eye toward summer break.
SIDE STREETS: Four-legged veteran was hero to many
Mitra Singh is planning a memorial service for a hero: her friend and companion Emir. For six years, Emir was in the Air Force and served four combat tours in Iraq. Emir won an award for being a key member of the security detail that protected President George W. Bush during his 2008 visit to...
Long-standing Territory Days festival on tap for weekend
Territory Days, one of Colorado Springs' largest and longest-standing street festivals is on tap this weekend, running 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, on Colorado Avenue between 23rd and 27th streets. This time-honored celebration commemorating the founding of...
Divide man enters bottled water business with innovative pouch
The water is purported to be from an 18,000-year-old glacier sealed beneath the Rocky Mountains. But the most noticeable difference between Spring Loaded water and other bottled water brands is likely the 18-ounce container. Spring Loaded (www.springloadedh2o.com) is the newest business...
Campground hosts: Hard work, but still a dream job for many
PIKE NATIONAL FOREST - There are times, usually when it's been awhile since she had clean laundry or a proper shower, that Ruth Williams misses home. Then, she said, "When I get into the traffic, I think, 'Now I know why I live in the mountains.'" When the 73-year-old says "in the...
Safe room mandates remain rare in tornado states
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery — for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About...
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization. Gay adults will remain barred from serving as...
Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. In a lengthy...
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Survey: Fewer Coloradans traveling this Memorial Day weekend
The number of state residents traveling this Memorial Day weekend is expected to fall slightly from last year. A survey of travelers released Wednesday by AAA Colorado states about 600,000 Coloradans, or 11.7 percent of the state's population, are expected to travel 50 miles or more this...
Colorado killer's reprieve from Gov. Hickenlooper sharply criticized
DENVER - Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to block the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap for as long as he is governor infuriated victims' relatives and drew quick criticism from Republicans ahead of the 2014 election. Hickenlooper on Wednesday granted an indefinite...
Sign marking site of 1959 Girl Scout Roundup safe from nearby construction
Within a few feet of the hard track where heavy machinery rumbles, a silent piece of history stands protected behind braided wire. Not many know what it stands for, this large, weathered wooden sign about 70 feet east of northbound Interstate 25 just up the road from InterQuest Parkway. Cars...
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Zoo Babies
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Cheyenne Mountain wins 4A girls soccer title
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Last Day at Wasson High
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Mountain Post Warrior Memorial Ceremony
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Seniors Zipping Along
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4A State Golf
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TCA vs. Peak to Peak-State Soccer Finals
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Final Wasson High graduation
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Other than Honorable: Day 2
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Colorado College Commencement
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Oklahoma tornado destruction
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Other than Honorable: Day 1
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Portuguese Holy Spirit Festival
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Aztec Raceway Motocross
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Bear Rescue
Opinion
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Sports
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- Ramsey: Palmer grad Reggie Jackson unchanged by fame with Oklahoma City Thunder
- Sky Sox complete road trip with 4-3 victory
- Former Denver Bronco Tom Nalen to enter team's Ring of Fame Sept. 29
- Klee: To revive championship history, Colorado sports go back to the future
- Second-half goals give Cheyenne Mountain first girls' soccer title since 2007
- Colorado Springs Sky Sox's Matt McBride's 6 RBIs lead way in rout
- Ramsey: Cheyenne Mountain should be tough to beat again in 2014
Business
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- Colorado Springs sales tax collection surge in April
- New hires, promotions, honors
- Hobby Lobby challenges birth-control coverage mandate
- Stocks end lower as investors reassess Fed worries
- Kinder Morgan signs 20-year lease in downtown Colorado Springs
- New hires, promotions, honors
- Colorado launches statewide innovation challenge
Multimedia
Life
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- Q&A: On Turkey's proposed alcohol restrictions
- Museum art collection at risk amid Detroit's woes
- 18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport
- Brewers team up on beer to help military families
- Detroit museum: City can't sell art to cover debt
- NY's Main Beach tops annual survey of best beaches
- Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar
Military
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- Biographer regrets affair with former CIA director
- Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
- NY senator: Assaults let military culture continue
- Fallen soldiers, airmen honored at Fort Carson ceremony
- While construction booms at Fort Carson, other contractors make cuts
- Lawmakers react to Gazette investigation on wounded soldiers
- Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Arts and Entertainment
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- TERRY TERRONES' PICK: 15 new "Arrested Development" episodes
- TERRY TERRONES: Welcome to the Golden Age of TV
- Colorado Springs Restaurant Week calling for restaurants to sign up for event
- Animated adventure film 'Epic' lacks strong story, but makes up for it with excellent animation
- The Wolf Pack must track down their buddy after being car-jacked in 'The Hangover Part III'
- The guys come out of retirement for predictable 'Fast and Furious 6'
- Colorado Springs' Springs Ensemble Theatre hatch 'The Odd Couple'
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