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O'Furry's Sports Pub & Grill (and, by extension, its sister business: The Omelette Parlor) are staples of Colorado Springs lore. The space that is O'Furry's used to be the barn house of Ruth Etting, a popular Folies singing star of the late 1920s, while the Omelette Parlor was her actual house. The floorboards have stayed the same and likely hold many stories in them.

Between 2019 and 2020, crime rose almost 9 percent in Colorado, according to newly released FBI statistics. That's the fifth-highest increase in the crime rate in the country.

In September 2021, Donala Water and Sanitation District, which serves the area between southern Monument and Gleneagle, informed its customers that their drinking water had high levels of radium and might want to switch to an alternative drinking supply. Donala gets its water from the Denver Basin.

Car theft is spiking in Colorado. Statistics and information from law enforcement, government, researchers, and all levels of media confirm this as shown below. The surge in stolen vehicles is more than simple property crime.

If you watch futuristic movies made in the 1980s or ‘90s, there's often the theme of hazardous fuels being obsolete thanks to technological advances. For example, at the end of the 1985 movie "Back to the Future," Doc Brown uses trash from a nearby dumpster to fuel his DeLorean time machine instead of plutonium.

Taking over a business requires a presence of mind and a sense of what came before while adding personal touches. Donavan Kennedy, who took ownership of Hillside Gardens in Colorado Springs in 2021, understood the need to keep the venue both classic (as it has been for many years as a wedding location) while implementing new ideas such as a possible whiskey bar.

Sandwiches can be a creation of beauty, but it all depends on ingredients and the alchemy that brings them together. Karrie Williams and Mark Jakusovszky, owners and proprietors of Colonel Mustard's Sandwich Emporium in Colorado Springs, realized that it is about specific local ingredients and purveyors.

For the last century or so, it has become a common practice across the United States for local municipalities to hold their elections on a different cycle than the federal elections that run in November on even-numbered years.

Being taken from your family can be traumatic for any child. But imagine during the 1959 Cuban Revolution escaping to the US (specifically Colorado) only to end up in an orphanage with extenuating circumstances.

In April of this year, Mountain Metropolitan Transit of Colorado Springs added four fully electric buses to its fleet. Debuted on Earth Day, they signal the Transit Service's policy in their part of the infrastructure.