State Vibe :: Colorado

All westbound lanes of U.S. 24 near Cascade were closed for several hours Friday night while Colorado state troopers investigate a crash that killed a motorcyclist. The 39-year-old motorcyclist was eastbound on U.S. 24 about 8 p.m. when he ...

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By a 5-4 vote Tuesday, the Colorado Springs City Council took a step toward resurrecting HAL, the Series 9000 computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Sometime in October, the city likely will begin issuing tickets for speeding and running ...

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Colorado Springs is not going to have a water shortage this year. The city’s reservoirs are 77 percent full, slightly better than average for this time of year. The snowpack in the Arkansas River Basin is about average. Avalanche danger is ...

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Susan Stanionis was a home care nurse until the day a terminally ill patient collapsed on her, causing a back injury that led to major surgery. “Six screws and two rods,” she said. Still sidelined from that injury two decades later, ...

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Three men were shot and wounded in a late-night, post-Christmas melee Saturday morning outside a bar near Hancock Expressway and Academy Boulevard. Colorado Springs police said that at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, a large group of people ...

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John and Sarah Hutton on Thursday pushed the eleventh hour to the twelfth. Waiting at the Apple Store at the The Shops at Briargate to get his iPhone fixed, the couple had just more than an hour to get to Chapel Hills Mall before it closed at 6 ...

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Postcards were the Twitter of their day. Rather than pay full postage to mail a letter, or search out a telephone in an era when phone lines were scarce, people sent postcards to communicate a quick message on the cheap. And, of course, the ...

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