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Sat, 11 Feb 2017 03:24:03 GMTCANON CITY — A free one-day home buyer’s workshop is slated to start at 9 a.m. Feb. 18 at the Upper Arkansas Area Council of Governments office, 3224-A Independence Road.
The workshop helps participants with information on the home buying process fro...

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 03:24:03 GMTThe Colorado House passed legislation Friday that would allow parents unpaid leave time from their jobs to attend their children’s academic events.
House Bill 1001 re-enacts the 2009 “Parental Involvement in K-12 Education Act” that sunset in 2015. T...

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 03:52:03 GMTBY JEFF MARTIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSATLANTA — Rock guitarist Rick Derringer told a federal air marshal that he keeps his gun with him on commercial airline flights 30 to 50 times a year, and was only detained last month at Atlanta’s airport near the end of a trip to Mexico, authorities...

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:57:52 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINPueblo police responded to a shooting Friday night on the 1200 block of East Fourth Street.
In the alley behind a home, they found a male who had been shot. He was transported to a local hospital. Police said the male is alive, but a description — in...

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 02:09:58 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINPueblo police on Friday released the names of the officers involved in a fatal shooting that happened on the South Side early Sunday morning.
Patrol officers Neal Robinson and Bernadette Lambert fired upon Andrew Byrd, 33, in the area of Small and Ac...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:48:04 GMTBY COLLEEN SLEVIN
ASSOCIATED PRESSDENVER — Winds in Colorado gusting over 70 mph on Friday helped spread wildfires, tipped over large trucks and broke weather records. One gust of 101 mph was reported at a mountain pass.
About 300 homes were evacuated because of the wildfires near L...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:04:03 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINPueblo School for Arts and Sciences saw its request for a second campus formally approved by the board of education of Pueblo City Schools (D60.)
On Thursday, the board greenlit a charter school contract for Pueblo School for Arts and Sciences at Fu...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:48:39 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN“Are you Miss Rodeo?” a star-struck Miranda Singleton asked Kelsie Winslow during a chance meeting at the 2016 Colorado State Fair.
“Well,” replied a charmed Winslow, “right now I’m the Lady in Waiting. So yes, I’m going to be Miss Rodeo.”
“Me too. I...

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:28:11 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINTwo months after he went missing at Lake Pueblo State Park, Frank Montoya still has not been found, but efforts to find him and the boat he and a woman used to go out on the lake are ongoing.
On Dec. 10, Montoya, 61, and Kimberlie Temple, 57, launche...

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:34:03 GMTBY RYAN SEVERANCE
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINSummer is months away, but Puebloans got a little bit of a taste of it on Friday with an all-time record-breaking temperature for the month.
Temperatures on Friday reached above 80, topping out at 82 degrees just before 2 p.m., making it the hottest ...