KOAA.com

Tagged News

• 50,000 veterans could soon find themselves employed

  May 1, 2013 5:14 AM

  There's a push to hire tens of thousands of veterans. The chairman of the investment group Blackstone announced the initiative yesterday as part of a partnership with the White House. Blackstone plans to hire 50,000 veterans across its various companies over the next five years. The chairman also... more »

• Hospice helps veterans find peace

  January 14, 2013 6:35 PM

  Hospice now uses videos to help Vietnam Veterans. It's through Tours of Peace, which took veterans back to Vietnam to find peace and make amends with their past. Now veterans right in our area can see these videos in hope of helping with PTSD and other post-war issues. "As... more »

• Veterans honored with parade in Avondale

  October 6, 2012 7:39 PM

  For the tenth year, a ceremony and parade in Avondale honors veterans and military men and women. All different branches of the military from around Colorado came together to be honored along Highway 50. Those living and those who have passed on were saluted and remembered with a 21-gun... more »

• 9/11 victims remembered at Fort Carson

  September 11, 2012 4:18 PM

  Fort Carson honors the lives lost in the attacks of 9/11. This morning they placed a wreath at the foot of a September 11 memorial. The giant piece of steel came from Ground Zero and is a constant reminder of all that was lost that tragic day. A Vietnam... more »

• Veteran benefits that you may not know about

  April 12, 2012 8:25 PM

  Here's some good news for veterans: if you are over age 65, you may qualify for up to $24,000 a year, just for having served. It's because of the Non-Service Connected Disability Pension. The benefit was signed into law more than 60 years ago, but it's not widely advertised. ... more »

• Vets cemetary adding above ground memorials

  April 4, 2012 7:54 AM

  DENVER (AP) - Fort Logan National Cemetery is formally opening two above-ground installations for urns bearing the cremated remains of veterans. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled at the cemetery in Denver on Wednesday. The installations are the first of their kind at Fort Logan. Each is a wall with niches... more »

• Las Animas to get boost from program at old Ft. Lyon prison

  March 16, 2012 1:22 PM

  Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and Governor John Hickenlooper have announced how $51 million from a recent multi-state settlement with bankers will be used. It includes funding for a program at the now closed Ft. Lyon Correctional Facility near Las Animas. "These funds will help keep Coloradans in their... more »

• More cities consider parades for Iraq War vets

  February 3, 2012 12:24 PM

  ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans is spurring talk of similar parades in at least 10 other cities. Organizers of the parade that drew an estimated 100,000 observers and 20,000 participants in St. Louis on Jan. 28 say... more »

• Florida veteran: "I'm not dead!"

  January 31, 2012 12:48 PM

  A Florida war veteran is in the middle of a new battle. This one is with the federal government to prove that he is alive. In fact, he's now been declared dead by the government, four separate times. Jerry Miller says he keeps getting letters that say he has... more »

• Send a vet a Thank You note

  November 10, 2011 7:48 AM

  You can send a "thank you note" to those who have served our country. The National WWII Museum has a new program called "Thank You for My Freedom". This gives anyone the chance to write a personalized message, or send a photo or video. Those behind the... more »

• Man gets prison in death of Iraq war veteran

  November 4, 2011 6:28 AM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A man who confessed his role in killing an Iraq war veteran whose body was stuffed in a toy box in Colorado Springs has been sentenced to 36 years in prison. The Gazette reports 39-year-old Peter Steven Miller Jr. apologized before he was sentenced... more »

• Vets in limbo with new system

  August 18, 2011 8:18 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of wounded, sick and injured troops are stuck in limbo. Many are waiting to be discharged as long as two years after being injured under a new system that was supposed to simplify the separation process while the government determines what benefits they are owed. ... more »

• Mourners pay respects to last WWI veteran

  March 13, 2011 5:38 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Friends, fellow veterans and complete strangers are paying their respects to the last American veteran of World War I. The body of Frank Buckles is resting in a flag-draped casket at a funeral home in Washington. Buckles will be buried Tuesday with full military honors at... more »

• Veteran clinic to be built in Colorado Springs

  February 8, 2011 1:04 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Congressman Doug Lamborn says the Veterans Affairs Department will start construction this year on a medical clinic in Colorado Springs. Lamborn, a Colorado Republican, said Monday the site for the clinic could be announced this week. The Gazette of Colorado Springs reports the new... more »

• Iraq war veteran accused of molesting teenage girl

  January 29, 2011 1:11 PM

  LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - A disabled Army veteran of the Iraq war is accused of molesting a teenage girl. Forty-year-old Dennis Herbst of Loveland is due in court Monday on three felony charges of sexual abuse of a child. He is free on $25,000 bond. His phone number is... more »

• Veteran apparently lied about war injuries

  September 28, 2010 2:46 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Relatives of a Colorado Army veteran are disputing his assertion that he lost his legs in combat. Kevin Grimsinger told state lawmakers last spring his legs were blown off by a land mine in Afghanistan. He was testifying about medical marijuana. His father, Walt Grimsinger of... more »

• New charge against man accused in Colorado Springs murder

  August 25, 2010 9:07 AM

  A man accused of killing his girlfriend and then staging a car crash to cover the slaying is facing a charge of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife, a witness in the murder case. The Denver district attorney's office says Robert Walters was charged last week... more »

• War hero dogs arrive in America

  August 2, 2010 9:14 AM

  The details of that night in Afghanistan this past February are still fuzzy for National Guardsman Sgt. Chris Duke. He remembers the explosion and being wounded, but he will never forget what the three dogs his unit adopted did for him and his buddies. Now Sgt. Duke is... more »

• 3 arrested in Colorado Springs apartment shooting

  August 2, 2010 8:35 AM

  Three Colorado Springs men are in custody after a veteran was shot and killed. Timothy Roath, 23, died Thursday when he was shot in the head at an apartment complex. Police arrested Kirby Braithwaite and Anthony Swindle on suspicion of murder Saturday. A third man, Quenton Heard, is... more »

• World War II vets gather each month for lunch

  June 9, 2010 12:56 PM

  Each month at the Peak Grill in Colorado Springs they come. World War II veterans get together to laugh and cry and remember. Master Sgt. Edwin Beck spend six months in a German prison camp. He says you can see a movie about it, or read about, but to... more »

• In blindness, soldiers find new niche in military

  May 21, 2010 10:39 AM

  Since a car bomb blinded Capt. Scott Smiley in Iraq, he has skied Vail, climbed Mount Rainier, earned his MBA, raised two young boys with his wife, won an Espy award and pulled himself up from faith-shaking depths. Smiley, pictured here, is one of only a handful of soldiers... more »

• Democrat lied about being a Vietnam veteran

  May 18, 2010 2:45 PM

  Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal has conceded he has "misspoken" in claiming he served in Vietnam but defended his military record and his commitment to veterans. At a news conference backed by veterans, the popular Connecticut attorney general said he meant to say he served "during Vietnam" instead of... more »

• Vet gets prison for faking paralysis to avoid Iraq

  April 24, 2010 1:04 PM

  An Army veteran who prosecutors say bilked the U.S. government by faking paralysis to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq was sentenced Friday to 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to repay more than $300,000. Jeffrey Rush, 27, apologized at times tearfully to U.S. District... more »

• Volunteers pitch in for local hero

  April 10, 2010 7:30 PM

  It's been a project of more than 2 years, fixing up the basement. But a war injury has proven to be a big speed bump for Staff Sergeant Dennis Cline. The injury may have caused him to lose a hand, but his wife Brooke says it hasn't stopped him. ""He... more »

• Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania dies at 77

  February 8, 2010 3:04 PM

  A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77. He had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. In 1974, Murtha became the first combat veteran of the Vietnam War... more »

• Local veteran says drug gave him homicidal thoughts

  October 1, 2009 11:16 PM

  A local Iraq war veteran says a drug, used to fight depression and PTSD, made him have homicidal fantasies. He's come forward to News First 5 in hopes of giving out a warning, he says he never got. He wanted to remain anonymous. So, we call him "Brad." He is... more »