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Ten vehicles have crashed into stores since late March in Colorado Springs
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Ten vehicles have crashed into stores since late March in Colorado Springs

By Lindsey Grewe | CBS 11 Colorado Springs When crooks plowed an SUV into a smoke shop in east Colorado Springs in the wee hours of Monday morning, it was only the latest in a long list of similar crimes reported in the city just since the spring. Starting in late March and then really escalating beginning in May, 10 stores across the city have been targeted by criminals in vehicles. READ THE FULL STORY WITH A TIMELINE OF EVENTS AT CBS 11
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A year after exchange student hit and killed near school, Colorado Springs adding speed zones, crosswalks
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A year after exchange student hit and killed near school, Colorado Springs adding speed zones, crosswalks

By Cameron Dean | CBS 11 News Before the start of the next school year, five more schools will have crosswalks installed to increase the safety of students and pedestrians. Coronado, Pine Creek, and Sand Creek High Schools as well as Holmes and Sand Creek Middle School will all have a crosswalk and slow speed zone before students have their first day of school. City officials said they had specific parameters for choosing the next schools to add crosswalks to. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS 11 NEWS
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Police: Man pulls knife, another a hammer while one was collecting ballot signatures in west Colorado Springs
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Police: Man pulls knife, another a hammer while one was collecting ballot signatures in west Colorado Springs

By Lindsey Grewe | KKTV CBS 11 A fight between a person collecting ballot signatures and a citizen landed both men in jail. According to police, the men got in an argument while the first suspect was gathering signatures in a business parking lot near Uintah and 19th Street Monday afternoon. Things quickly escalated from there. “The person gathering signatures pulled a knife and menaced the citizen. The citizen walked to his vehicle and retrieved a hammer, returned to confront the person gathering signatures,” a CSPD lieutenant said. READ THE FULL STORY AT KKTV CBS 11
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Driver was traveling 100 mph in Colorado Springs-area construction zone while intoxicated, state patrol says
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Driver was traveling 100 mph in Colorado Springs-area construction zone while intoxicated, state patrol says

By Lindsey Grewe | CBS 11 Colorado Springs A driver is facing hefty fines and potentially even jail time after driving 55 mph over the speed limit ... While intoxicated ... While in a construction zone. Colorado State Patrol’s Colorado Springs office posted a photo from the scene on social media Tuesday, the number “100″ prominently displayed on the radar sitting on the trooper’s dashboard. READ FULL STORY AT CBS 11 COLORADO SPRINGS
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‘We still have a long way to go’: CSP sergeant discusses DUI marijuana enforcement
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‘We still have a long way to go’: CSP sergeant discusses DUI marijuana enforcement

By Jared Dean | CBS 11 Colorado Springs Sergeant Patrick Rice with the Colorado State Patrol says although the state has made serious progress when it comes to detecting and enforcing driving under the influence of marijuana they still have a long way to go. “We still have a long way to go as you can see on our roads we still have many many impaired drivers killing people drivers in Colorado nearly every day,” Rice said. Just last year there were 235 crashes caused by impaired driving in El Paso County. Tied with 2022 but the highest number the county has seen in the last ten years. Rice says over the years he has learned key differences to spot drivers who are driving while high. “Many of the dangers of the same it’s a slow, cognitive decision making abilities. It’s your abili...
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TAX DAY: Colorado tax experts busy this season due to state TABOR refund
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TAX DAY: Colorado tax experts busy this season due to state TABOR refund

By Kasia Kerridge | CBS 11 Colorado Springs Tax Day marks the last day to file your taxes, or you will need to get an extension. The IRS is estimating 19 million taxpayers will file for an automatic six-month extension. Although an extension grants extra time to file, the IRS says it does not extend the obligation to pay. “There’s two penalties you can face if you owe the IRS money by the deadline. The first is the failure the file penalty, and that one is 5% of the unpaid taxes. That one is very severe, and you can avoid that one by filing an extension. The second one is a failure to pay penalty. That one is .5% of the unpaid taxes,” said David Fruh of Jackson Hewitt Tax Services in Colorado Springs. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS 11 COLORADO SPRINGS
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Falcon woman known as ‘praying grandma’ found guilty for her role in the U.S. Capitol riot
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Falcon woman known as ‘praying grandma’ found guilty for her role in the U.S. Capitol riot

By Tony Keith | CBS 11 Colorado Springs A Colorado woman who became known as the “praying grandma” was found guilty for her role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Rebecca Lavrenz was convicted on four misdemeanor charges including entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct inside a restricted building, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and parading or picketing in the Capitol, according to court documents. According to the statement of facts for the Lavrenz case, multiple tipsters contacted the FBI to state that Lavrenz was among the rioters. Investigators used cell phone records to confirm her phone was in the area that day. FBI agents interviewed her at her Falcon home and she admitted to following the crowd into the U.S. Capitol building,...
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$1 million Mega Millions ticket bought in Colorado
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$1 million Mega Millions ticket bought in Colorado

By Tony Keith | CBS 11 Colorado Springs A jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket was purchased in New Jersey, but a ticket worth $1 million was sold in Colorado for the most recent drawing! According to the Colorado lottery, the ticket worth $1 million was sold at 12442 W. Ken Caryl Avenue in Littleton, a Safeway. The Colorado lottery adds a ticket worth $20,000 was sold at Player’s Cafe in Edgewater and another one was sold at Circle K on Ute Highway in Longmont worth $10,000. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS 11 COLORADO SPRINGS
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Fentanyl found on chartered bus Colorado 4th-grade students were on
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Fentanyl found on chartered bus Colorado 4th-grade students were on

By Tony Keith | CBS 11 KKTV A Colorado school district is sharing a statement after fentanyl was found on a charter bus that was carrying elementary-aged students. Multiple people reached out to KKTV 11 News concerned about the situation, which serves as an important reminder for every parent or guardian to talk to their children about what to do if they come across pills or other questionable substances and paraphernalia. KidsHealth provides information on how you can talk to a young child about drugs, click here for more. It isn’t clear how the drugs got onto the chartered bus. The school district is not identifying the bus company the students were on, but KKTV 11 News reached out to a company we believe was involved based on information from our viewers and we hope to upd...
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AI-guided robot used to sort recylables in Colorado Springs
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AI-guided robot used to sort recylables in Colorado Springs

By Kasia Kerridge | CBS 11-Colorado Springs A local recycling facility is the first in southern Colorado to use a robot to help sort materials. 11 News visited Republic Services, near I-25 and Garden of the Gods, to see the AMP Cortex in action. Republic Services says the AI-guided recycling robotic system helps sort food and beverage containers from El Paso, Pueblo, Chaffee and Elbert counties. “It uses a vision system and it recognizes materials that [are] coming up through the stream, and it will decide what to pick,” said maintenance safety tech at Republic Services Thomas Brackett. “It has a vacuum tube, and what it will do is it registers, it will go down and pick it and then it will shoot it down into the shoot that it needs, so it uses air.” READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS 1...
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