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District wide phone outage reported for Pueblo City Schools
Posted 12:18 PM 5/21/2013 by Andy Koen
PUEBLO - Pueblo City Schools reports a telephone outage due to a line being severed by a local utility contractor. Communications Director Scott Jones says the outage is effecting incoming and outgoing calls from all district buildings.
Jones says parents and teachers are encouraged to (More)
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Carol Burnett to get Kennedy Center honor
Posted 11:13 AM 5/21/2013 by Joe Bevans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Carol Burnett, who became famous for playing a variety of characters in sketch comedy routines on her namesake television show, has been named the winner of the nation's top humor prize. The Kennedy Center in Washington announced Tuesday that Burnett will receive the Mark Twain (More)
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CSPD arrests kidnapping suspect
Posted 10:47 AM 5/21/2013 by Patricia Collier
Colorado Springs, CO - On May 20, 2013 at about 11:00pm, the Colorado Springs Police received a call regarding a kidnapping situation. Police responded to an apartment in the Parkridge Apartments, located in the 2600 block of E. Serendipity Circle, where they contacted the victim. The victim (More)
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Indy car sports stickers from Pueblo
Posted 10:17 AM 5/21/2013 by Andy Koen
PUEBLO - One of the racecars in this weekend's 97th running of the Indianapolis 500 will be sporting a little piece of Pueblo as it speeds around the Brickyard.
Panther Racing's National Guard Indy Car has two stickers bearing the logo of the Center for American Values (CAV) on the car's (More)
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Veterinarians look for swine virus in Colorado
Posted 10:15 AM 5/21/2013 by Andy Koen
LAKEWOOD - Members of the Colorado Department of Agriculture's State Veterinarian's Office are investigating whether cases of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus have turned up in our state. The investigation follows the discovery of the virus last week in pigs in Iowa by the National (More)
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Colorado stoned-driving bill attracts lawsuit
Posted 9:35 AM 5/21/2013 by Patricia Collier
DENVER (AP) - A stoned-driving bill awaiting the Colorado governor's signature is being challenged by a northern Colorado man who wants to block the measure.
Brandon Baker of Nunn says he uses marijuana for religious reasons and that the blood limit at which drivers would be considered (More)
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News - Devastation in Oklahoma
Obama offers help for Oklahoma tornado victims
Posted 9:25 AM 5/21/2013 by Patricia Collier
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."
Obama calls the devastation that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs, quote, "one of the most destructive tornados in history," (More)
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Medical examiner: 24 dead in Oklahoma twister
Posted 9:21 AM 5/21/2013 by Patricia Collier
MOORE, Okla. (AP) - The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.
Spokeswoman Amy Elliott said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm. (More)
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Woman plans not guilty plea in gun purchase
Posted 9:18 AM 5/21/2013 by Patricia Collier
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - A woman accused of buying the gun used to kill Colorado's prisons chief plans to plead not guilty.
Twenty-two-year-old Stevie Marie Ann Vigil is scheduled to be in court Tuesday. Her attorney, Normando Pacheco, says she plans to plead not guilty to a charge of (More)
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Cuba lifts ban on energy-hogging appliances
Posted 8:42 AM 5/21/2013 by Adam Atchison
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban in place since 2005, when the measure was adopted amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.
Cuban citizens can now bring up to two such (More)
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Officials clear way for I-70 traffic plan
Posted 8:41 AM 5/21/2013 by Adam Atchison
FRISCO, Colo. (AP) - Colorado Department of Transportation officials are now working on their next move to maximize the capacity of the Interstate-70 mountain corridor.
A new peak-period shoulder lane will use the asphalt outside the existing highway lanes to create a reversible third (More)
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Your Healthy Family
Testicular Cancer number one cancer among teen boys
Posted 7:37 AM 5/21/2013 by Marissa Torres
Testicular cancer is the number one cancer of men 15 to 35. If caught early-- it's very curable.
"I didn't think that it was going to be cancer."
But it was: Testicular Cancer. Anthony Vasold, just 24 at the time, got the diagnosis almost three years ago. He's since gone through (More) • Video (1)
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Activist group chases down sex assault suspect, criticizes Pueblo Police Department
Posted 11:23 PM 5/20/2013 by Tony Spehar - tspehar@koaa.com
A Pueblo activist group patrolling their east side neighborhood on Sunday chased down a man they believed to be a suspect who exposed himself to a child and sexually assaulted another, in explaining their actions they heavily criticized the Pueblo Police Department.
On Monday, the American (More)
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