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Barry Noreen

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  • Police looking for shooting suspect

    Updated: Fri, Jun 7, 2013

    Colorado Springs police are looking for a 24-year-old man suspected in connection with a shooting that occurred Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Fountain Boulevard and Chelton Road. At about 3 p.m. police received a call from Memorial Hospital concerning a shooting victim...

  • NOREEN: Colorado governor part of larger move away from capital punishment

    Published: Sun, May 26, 2013

    Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision last week to grant a reprieve to death row inmate Nathan Dunlap reverberated throughout Colorado, drawing both praise and scorn. Dunlap was convicted of murdering four people in 1993 at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. An eyewitness survived, so the...

  • NOREEN: Detailed comparison of damage from local fire vs. Oklahoma tornado waits on details

    Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

    "Don't you think it would be newsworthy," a reader asked, "to compare the number of homes destroyed in the Waldo Canyon fire and the government aid promises/delivered with the tornado in Moore, Okla.? It would have to not factor in the schools destroyed, but I haven't heard a homes...

  • Barry Noreen: Hit the road

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    If you're in Colorado for very long, you'll discover there are far more than five must-see places. In limiting that list, there is a temptation to advise a visitor to tour the state's four national parks, then spend an evening in Denver's LoDo neighborhood. Let's be more incisive and...

  • Hiking Grand Canyon from rim to rim is quite an experience

    Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

    Ten years ago, I did the first of my four rim-to-rim hikes in the Grand Canyon. We dropped off the North Rim a bit past 6:30 a.m., and before long, we were staring at the least attractive end of a horse - the last in a string of about 15 animals slowly making their way down, carrying...

  • NOREEN: Losing some benefits is possible

    Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

    Can a divorced senior citizen have a financial disincentive to remarry? Reader Sharon Brown wrote in asking, 'I've heard that some senior citizens choose not to get remarried because doing so would negatively affect their financial benefits. Could you fill me in on the specifics of...

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