Author: Debbie Kelley
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Highlands Ranch priests seek sainthood for Kendrick Castillo’s ultimate sacrifice
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Many hailed 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo as a hero for trying to stop a shooter at his charter school just a few weeks before he was to graduate in May 2019. But did the STEM School…
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Homeless population in Colorado Springs hit record highs, Point in Time survey shows
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A record-high spike of people living on the streets and in homeless shelters and supported housing programs in El Paso County is reflected in data released Monday from this year’s federally required Point-in-Time and Housing Inventory Count. The number of people countywide who described themselves…
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Focus on the Family responds after SPLC adds it to hate group list
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Initial reaction after finding out that Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate and anti-government extremist” groups for the first time was a tongue-in-cheek, “What took them so long?” “Since Focus’ inception 48 years ago in 1977,…
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The psychology of camping: Throwbacks yield popular contemporary tradition
Why anyone would happily forgo hot showers, dreamy sheets and an indoor commode in favor of scant bathing, a rocky snooze and vault toilets could be traced to a deep, ancestral pull. Think cave dwelling, teepee living, overnighters along wagon trails. “We all used to camp out,” said Minette Church, an archaeologist who teaches anthropology…
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Faith, fear and vigilance: Colorado Springs rabbis react to Boulder terror attack
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save How are people at the Chabad of Colorado Springs Jewish Community feeling after Sunday’s anti-Semitic terrorist attack at an outdoor mall in Boulder? Rabbi Boaz Vituk, who heads the synagogue, nudges aside his jacket before entering the holy building on Monday to lead a service…
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Bets are on for the next pope, but why not in Colorado?
The bets are on, as cardinals from around the world arrived in Rome Wednesday for the centuries-old papal conclave process to select the next leader of the world’s 1.406 billion Roman Catholics. With 133 cardinals eligible to vote being sequestered inside the Vatican to pray, reflect and cast their votes for the first time Wednesday…
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Antique cash register stolen from Miramont Castle Museum in Manitou Springs
An unthinkable daytime heist at the Miramont Castle Museum in Manitou Springs last week has left employees bewildered. “This is just wrong. Stealing from a museum,” worker Linda Pineda wrote on Facebook. The theft of a hefty antique cash register that disappeared out a third-floor door of the historic building happened between 1 p.m. and…
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Plans for new wind farm in Colorado’s Eastern Plains unveiled
Blustery gusts kicked up Thursday about the same time as some residents of El Paso County’s portion of the Eastern Plains learned about a new proposed wind farm in their neck of the fields. A sizable crowd trickled into the county fairgrounds in Calhan for an open house featuring NextEra Energy Resources’ plans to erect…
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Santa Claus and Disney Princess Elsa conspire to fulfill ‘Make-A-Wish’ dream of 8-year-old Colorado girl
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In one magical moment on Wednesday, Santa Claus worked with Princess Elsa of “Frozen” films to deliver a glorious wish to 8-year-old Genevieve Carach. Visions of twister rides, cotton candy and Magic Kingdom parades that await at Disney World next week danced in Genevieve’s head, chasing away any bad thoughts about being sick from the…