A man who said he was paralyzed after being hit with a Taser while running from police in Colorado Springs filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against one of the officers, seeking $100 million in damages. Lawyers for Jacob Root, who was suspected of stealing a car, allege Officer Robert Comstock fired a Taser at his back without warning which incapacitated him and prevented him from using his hands or arms to break his fall to the ground. Root fell face first and broke his neck after falling off a sidewalk and into the street in the May 16, 2022 incident, according to the suit. Root can be heard ..read more

Police deactivated an Amber Alert on Saturday after officers arrested a 30-year-old mother on charges of violating a parental custody order and abducing her three children. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Aurora school principal ousted amid investigation into attempted student kidnapping by registered sex offender Crime and Public Safety | Woman drugged, assaulted by Jay Bianchi at Denver’s So Many Roads Brewery in April, affidavit says Crime and Public Safety | Service dog bites passenger, American Airlines employee at Denver International Airport Crime and Public Safety | DA ..read more

Auraria student organizers on Thursday rejected a proposal from campus officials to remove the week-old Denver encampment in exchange for a $15,000 donation to the International Committee of the Red Cross. In a letter posted online, campus leaders said a group of donors came forward with a “nonpartisan humanitarian solution to restore order to the Quad by removing the encampment.” The donation on behalf of Students for a Democratic Society was contingent on the pro-Palestine encampment being removed by 5 p.m. Thursday and for future protests to comply with campus policies, campus official ..read more

Student protests against the Israel-Hamas war spread to college campuses throughout Colorado this week as a solidarity encampment at Denver’s Auraria Higher Education Campus entered its seventh day. Demonstrations at the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Denver, Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado and Colorado College called for a cease-fire and for campus leaders to divest from activities and funding related to Israel. Metropolitan State University and CU Denver student organizers met with Auraria officials Tuesday “to try to achieve an amicable path forward ..read more

As most Coloradans know, the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” were inspired by a trek to the summit of Pikes Peak via prairie wagon in 1893. But when Katharine Lee Bates penned a poem called “Pikes Peak,” which became an American anthem after it was set to music in 1910, she could scarcely have imagined the great mountain becoming a trash heap. Outdoor recreation advocates fear that’s precisely what is happening to the majestic 14,107-foot peak that soars above Colorado Springs, along with the surrounding Pike National Forest. “We’re trashing America’s Mountain,” says Susan Davies, executive ..read more

Colorado has the second-lowest gas prices in the country — for now. The statewide average price is $3.16 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas, 51 cents below the national average. The statewide average is down from $3.58 per gallon at the same time in 2023 and up about 10 cents on the month, AAA Colorado said Thursday. “Coloradans should make the most of comparatively low prices while they can,” Skyler McKinley, regional spokesman for AAA, said in a statement. McKinley said expectations of an upcoming robust summer travel season coupled with the federally mandated switchover to reformulated ga ..read more

This is a new list of the 58 named peaks in Colorado greater than 14,000 feet above sea level, as measured by the National Geodetic Survey using GPS data. The Colorado Mountain Club recognizes 54 fourteeners and does not include four peaks on this list – Cameron, Challenger, North Eolus and Conundrum – because they are connected in close proximity to adjacent fourteeners. RELATED: Many of Colorado’s favorite fourteeners just had their elevation figures changed Mountain, elevation Mount Elbert, 14,437.6 feet Mount Massive, 14,423.9 feet Mount Harvard, 14,421.7 feet Blanca Peak, 14,348.5 feet La ..read more

Democrat Adam Frisch brought in the biggest financial haul of any of Colorado’s congressional hopefuls during the first three months of the year, raising $1.4 million — nearly six times as much as his main Republican rival in the 3rd Congressional District, Jeff Hurd. And U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, after switching in December from the Western Slope-based 3rd to seek election in the 4th Congressional District in eastern Colorado, raised the least amount of money for her campaign in a single quarter dating back at least a year — a bit over $462,000. But her campaign account still had nearly $980 ..read more

A homicide investigation is underway in Colorado Springs Friday morning after police found two people dead. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 3100 block of Lange Terrace around 5 a.m. Friday, according to a statement from the Colorado Springs Police Department on X, formerly known as Twitter. When officers arrived, they found two people dead at the scene, the police department stated. The Homicide Unit has taken over the investigation. “At this time, all parties who are believed to be involved are accounted for,” the department stated. Related Articles Crime and Public Safet ..read more

Lou Kilzer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Denver Post reporter and editor who spent decades uncovering corruption and misinformation, died Wednesday in Colorado Springs. He was 73. Kilzer’s career spanned newsrooms across the country and world, including stints at the Fort Collins Triangle Review, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Korea JoongAng Daily and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He was most recently a novelist and investigative consultant for The Colorado Springs Gazette. “He was very much a reporter’s reporter, a journalist’s journalist,” said Henry Dubroff, former ..read more