Author: CAROL MCKINLEY [email protected]
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Colorado Springs Green Beret suicide underscores need for brain injury awareness
In a digital journal investigators found in one of two charred cellphones, Matthew Livelsberger indicated that his war experience had left him severely troubled: “These graphic encounters replay in my head all day every day and it has ruined my relationships with my family and friends. I am now a shell of a human being…
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Palisade producers promise peaches aplenty this season
Seeing rows of trees dotted with tiny green fruit, you can almost taste soft-serve Palisade peach swirled in a sugar cone. In what seems to have been a bad weather year everywhere else, it’s been good for the Colorado peach crop. If May’s mild temperatures hold, the Western Slope’s Palisade peach producers are predicting one…
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“I saw his feet moving:” Shooting rampage survivor hid as killer came to finish him off
James “Jimmy” Maldonado woke up in a hospital bed asking for his wife. Shot in the shoulder area, Maldonado survived Monday’s shooting rampage, but his wife, Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado, did not. Detectives visited his bedside Monday night and told him that Alyssa had died. “I’m devastated about losing my wife and my friend,” Maldonado told The…
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Second-degree murder charge suggested for ex-police officer who shot teenager in Aurora
Police have submitted a warrant to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office for the arrest of a former police officer who shot and killed a teenage boy last month during an altercation in Aurora. Investigators have recommended that prosecutors charge Adam Holen, 36, with second-degree murder. Peyton Blitstein, 17, was in a car with four other teenagers on Nov.…
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Barry Morphew’s attorneys want judge removed from case
Barry Morphew’s attorneys are asking the judge to recuse himself from the case because of his friendship with the lawyer who is representing Morphew’s girlfriend. Shoshona Darke is expected to testify in the trial and is also going through her own legal troubles after being accused of trespassing at the home Barry Morphew and his…
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Parents of Colorado teen shot, killed by former officer speak out about son’s death
Less than a week after his son was killed in a violent altercation with a former police officer in Aurora, Todd Blitstein stood on the street where the shooting occurred and choked back tears. “I want to be where Peyton was last so that people can see and they can hear how we are as…
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Colorado ski slopes were ancestral homelands to indigenous peoples
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It took a century, but Colorado mountain resorts are finally recognizing that Indigenous tribes inhabited the Rockies long before the tourism industry introduced chair lifts, snowmaking machines and mountain bike trails. Winter Park Ski Resort…
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Blue corn meal, whiskey help save Ute Mountain Ute Farm and Ranch during drought
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save TOWAOC — Drought in much of the West, 22 years running, has struck Colorado’s Four Corners tribal lands with bitter force. This year, the Ute Mountain Ute’s celebrated 7,700 acre farm and ranch operation had to…
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After narrow escape from Afghanistan, interpreter, family embark on journey to new home in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The interpreter slogged through human sewage up to his knees, two trips back and forth through steaming sludge, each time carrying two of his children on his shoulders. At the walled gate separating fear from freedom, he heaved them into the arms of his anxious…
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‘There is no way to live like a human here:’ Young woman scholar desperate to flee Taliban
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the Taliban moved into western Afghanistan to take over Herat Province, Fahemeh Amini grew increasingly frightened. For two weeks, the Afghan Army fought to keep the rebels out, but on August 12th the city fell. That day, Amini left work at Herat University as armed…