Stephanie Earls

The Aspen Acres fire devastated the small town of Beulah and the lives of many who had to evacuate in the close-knit community

Storms brought a welcome reprieve of moisture Wednesday evening and overnight Thursday to the southern Front Range, including portions of the Aspen Acres burn scar — without the fallout authorities worried could compound the disaster-so-far as the wildfire continues to rage in Pueblo and Custer counties. Fortunately, rain fell. In amounts and in places where […]

Like her fellow crewmates, wildland firefighter Amanda Wood, 34, was no stranger to challenges that sometimes defied standard logic.

One man is dead after a stabbing Tuesday night in the 600 block of North Murray Boulevard, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Officers and medical personnel responded to the address on the city’s east side at 10:10 p.m., and located the deceased adult male on scene, according to a police blotter report. Patrol […]

Windy conditions and hot weather on Wednesday afternoon led to an increase in activity on the southwest side of the Aspen Acres fire, which as of Thursday morning had burned 99,820 acres, gaining 291 acres from the previous day but remaining at 36% containment. Firefighters on the south side of the “chicken foot” – a […]

The authorities will allow some residents along Colorado 165 to return home Friday, but evacuees should “continue to be alert for changes in fire behavior,” Custer County Sheriff Rich Smith said during a Thursday morning update on the Aspen Acres fire. Starting at 9 a.m. Friday, Zone C5C (the area around North Creek Boulevard to the […]

Colorado Springs firefighter Alan Kent was just doing his job when he responded to an emergency call at the home of Stacy and Todd Huddle on Feb. 15, 2004. What came next — a lifelong bond between Kent and the family of the child he helped deliver that Sunday morning — may have been born […]

Arraignment for Kimberlee Singler, the Colorado Springs woman accused of killing two of her children and attempting to kill a third, was postponed until November after the defense successfully argued that more time is needed for discovery and the completion of forensic testing. Singler, 37, had been scheduled to face formal charges at a hearing […]

The Villain Arts Tattoo Festival is a mosh pit romp down the rabbit hole of how far humans are willing to go to adorn the blank canvas of a birthday suit. “Twelve sessions, over a hundred hours” so far, said Colorado Springs resident Robert Valencia, as tattoo artist Carlos Piedrahita prepared to return to work […]

Nine minutes before the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, national guardsmen in upstate New York received word the FAA believed an aircraft had been hijacked. “They did not know what flight had been hijacked. They didn’t know where the aircraft was. They didn’t know where […]