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KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
April 3, 2018
After months of negotiation and arbitration, it appears that the roughly 1,000 teachers and paraprofessionals in Pueblo's School District 60 will be getting a cost of living raise. An independent fact finder recommended the district pay the extra $1.2 million to cover the cost of the raises as well as increasedÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
April 3, 2018
The Huerfano County Correctional Facility probably won't be reopened anytime soon because state lawmakers are developing other options for dealing with the state's prison population. A special eight-lawmaker task force looking at the state prison question had until April 1 to make recommendations toÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
Two Pueblo County deputies have been cleared in the August 2017 shooting of a suspected bank robber. ... The Pueblo Chieftain reported Monday that District Attorney Jeff Chostner decided the deputies had been acting in self-defense and in defense of others when they shot 66-year-old Dennis Flowers.
Pueblo Chieftain
April 3, 2018
Direct-care staff at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo would get pay raises if state lawmakers agree to keep a $9.4 million increase in the state budget being debated in the Colorado Senate this week. State Rep. Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, added the pay increase to the proposed budget in theÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
April 3, 2018
Direct-care staff at the Colorado Mental Health at Pueblo would get pay raises if state lawmakers agree to keep a $9.4 million increase in the state budget being debated in the Colorado Senate this week. State Rep. Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, added the pay increase to the proposed budget in the House lastÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
April 3, 2018
In this Thursday, March 8, 2018, photo, Colorado State Senator Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs, listens to debate on a concealed carry bill during action on the floor of the chamber in the State Capitol in Denver. The Republican-led Senate has agreed to debate a Democratic resolution callingÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
April 2, 2018
Jared Polis, D-Colo., is going to the Colorado Democratic Assembly to compete for delegate support on April 14 in Broomfield. A story about the governor's race reported that he'd been in Pueblo campaigning for delegate support but he'd also turned in voter petitions to get on the June 26 primary ballot byÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
April 1, 2018
A sign with the new logo of the health department is shown outside the building at 10th and Santa Fe on March 31, 2018 in Pueblo, Colo. ... was added to the agency's name to emphasize the full scope of services provided and align the name with state health and local public health agencies in Colorado.".
KRDO
April 1, 2018
Pueblo, Colo. - A man wanted out of Virginia was arrested in Pueblo County Friday night. Authorities in Virginia learned 35-year-old Christopher Hobson was in Colorado and asked fellow law enforcement to be on the lookout for him. Hobson was wanted on a failure to appear warrant for drugs in Henrico,Ãâà...
KRDO
April 1, 2018
Pueblo, Colo. - The Pueblo Police Department is hoping surveillance photos can help catch a bank robber. The robbery happened Saturday afternoon at the Academy Bank inside the Walmart on Dillon Drive. The man claimed he was armed, but no gun was seen. The robber took off on an orangeÃâà...
FOX21News.com
April 1, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. - A wanted man out of Virginia is behind bars after being found near a Pueblo's East Side Skate Park on Friday. Virginia authorities learned Christopher Hobson, 35, of Bookneal, Va., was in Colorado and alerted the U.S. Marshals' Colorado Violent Offender Task Force, which includeÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
April 1, 2018
The "straw that broke the camel's back" for many on the Pueblo City Council was the unexpected bill from Black Hills Energy for the new, efficient street lighting - especially since the utility had been in on the planning for the $4.2-million project. "Black Hills leadership has declared a war of economicsÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 31, 2018
Motorists driving near the intersection of North Pueblo Boulevard and U.S. 50. will experience several lane closures and possible delays during the hours of 9 p.m. ... North Pueblo Boulevard (mile marker 8-9) will have a northbound right lane closure and a southbound left lane closure, and U.S. 50.
Pueblo Chieftain
March 31, 2018
Left were only childhood memories of growing up in Canon City, until he went off to college and his dad, a New Jersey Zinc Co. manager, was transferred ... A lawsuit by the cattle company destroyed the family's estate, and with it any hope of Jack returning to Southern Colorado State University in Pueblo.
Pueblo Chieftain
March 31, 2018
DENVER -- Colorado's Democrat-led House passed a $28.9 billion budget bill Thursday and sent it to the Republican-led Senate, where the focus will be on how much transportation -- long an underfunded priority -- should receive. A strong economy propelled by record oil production, rising wages and theÃâà...
KKTV 11 News
March 31, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - Detectives seized more than two dozen guns and $20,000 worth of drugs from a Pueblo storefront on Thursday. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office is reporting detectives were patrolling the 600 block of West Northern ... More at https://t.co/rfRDvkL7gn pic.twitter.com/JC0UVWpbu1.
KRDO
March 30, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. - Brian Repola is no longer executive director of the Pueblo School for Arts and Sciences after a vote by the board of directors to terminate him following complaints of inappropriate behavior. Details of the complaints weren't made available, but the school said in a news release ThursdayÃâà...
FOX31 Denver
March 4, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. — Authorities are looking for two inmates who escaped from a jail in southern Colorado. The Pueblo Chieftain reported Saturday that 31-year-old Kyle Pauley and 23-year-old Lawrence Gonzales had escaped from the Conejos County Jail. Investigators did not have any information aboutÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 4, 2018
A trio of local lawmakers gathered at the Pueblo Convention Center on Saturday to talk politics with constituents during the second Legislative Breakfast of 2018. In the event hosted by the Pueblo Chamber of Commerce and Parkview Medical Center, state Senator Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, joined state RepsÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 4, 2018
The Pueblo Police Department recovered a stolen vehicle from the 1400 block of East Orman Avenue about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, when a patrolling officer ran the license plates of a 1996 Honda Accord through the state database and found it had been stolen in Colorado Springs. The patrolling officerÃâà...
KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
March 4, 2018
Multiple fires have been reported over the last day as Southern Colorado is in a Red Flag Warning until tonight, a grass fire in Pueblo is also burning. The fire is near 11th and Pueblo Blvd. Fire crews are working to get the fire under control, there is smoke visible in the area. There is no word on anyÃâà...
KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
March 3, 2018
Years after their previous building was condemned due to structural problems, the Pueblo County Department of Social Services has a new home. The agency moved into the empty First Baptist Church building on 9th Street downtown. The County chose this site because it is more centrally located andÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 3, 2018
And Vestas converts tons of steel into hulking wind turbines at plants in Windsor, Brighton and Pueblo. Aerospace manufacturers along the Front Range are building rockets and satellites with imported metal, and more than 100 construction contractors specialize in putting steel into bridges and buildings.
KKTV 11 News
March 2, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - A couple of suspected criminals were caught on camera and the Pueblo Police Department is hoping the public can help track them down. Police released several surveillance photos on Thursday of the suspected criminals: HELP IDENTIFY ROBBERY SUSPECTS For Details:Ãâà...
KRDO
March 1, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. - Multiple agencies have contained a large grass fire that broke out along N Pueblo Boulevard near Paws for Life Wednesday night. We started hearing reports of this fire at around 9 p.m. It was burning in a wooded grove just north of the Arkansas River. Firefighters tell us several homelessÃâà...
KRDO
February 21, 2018
DENVER - The former deputy chief investigator of the Pueblo County District Attorney's office has been arrested on numerous charges including official ... According to The Chieftain, the indictment is in Denver District Court, a state court, and appears to have been obtained by the Colorado AttorneyÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
December 31, 1999
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PRI
December 31, 1999
“We wanted a more central location. We were looking for a more affordable place to live, and we looked at all these AARP 'Best 10' lists, and Pueblo [Colorado] figured in a lot of them,” says Manny de Lizarriturri. About a two-hour drive south of Denver, Pueblo is a steel town of 108,000. It was once knownÃâà...
