Author: Bill Reed
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THE SAFETY NET: Homeless meeting tonight to focus on solutions
PHoto by Jerilee Bennett-Thursday, July 27, 2000-Gamblers play a bank of slot machines at Bronco Billy’s Casino. Bronco Billy’s was one of the casinos that consolidated and has become the largest casino in Cripple Creek. Photo by Jerilee Bennett
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Program gives parents with special-needs kids a night out
Mike and Stefanie Morgan have had exactly one date in the past year, so they were thrilled for a Break Time on Saturday night. Break Time is a program by The Resource Exchange that offers a night out to parents of children with developmental disabilities. The program had been suspended for more than a year…
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Missing woman’s body found near vehicle off Cripple Creek highway
The search for Mary Hucks ended Saturday, when her body was found near her vehicle at the bottom of a 250-foot embankment off Colorado 67 near Cripple Creek. Hucks, 59, had been missing since Monday, when she drove to Cripple Creek to play the slot machines and never came home, her family said. Colorado State…
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Soldier with gun arrested after alleged threats
A soldier was arrested on Saturday morning at Copperhead Road restaurant and bar, 3330 N. Academy Blvd., for allegedly handling a gun while drunk, said police. The soldier – Michael Spallone, 24 – was apparently carrying the loaded, semiautomatic handgun when he became angry with other people at the bar and told friends he was…
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Local advocacy groups use health care summit to regain energy
Christy Le Lait joined a gathering on Thursday at Poor Richard’s Bookstore in downtown Colorado Springs to tell her health care story, while politicians in Washington D.C. wrangled over the issue on television. Her self-employed husband suffered an $85,000 heart attack in 2003, she said, and is now refused coverage by private insurance companies. “It’s…
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Penrose Hospital named one of the nation’s best
Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been named one of HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals, the only hospital in Colorado to receive the distinction. This is the third year in a row Penrose has received this honor. The rating is based on health outcomes — to put it simply, you are less likely to die or…
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Minority health fair this weekend offers free testing
Health, it turns out, is not color blind. Whites in Colorado are more likely to die of breast cancer than others, Asians more likely to die of cervical cancer, and blacks more likely to die of prostate cancer.But, by almost any measure, blacks in Colorado are less healthy than the state average. They are more…
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Maybe this isn’t Fit City after all
Some surveys and studies have painted our community as Healthy Town, U.S.A. An in-depth, county-by-county health rankings report put out Wednesday isn’t one of them. El Paso County ranked 29th among the state’s 64 counties — fair to middlin’ — when it comes to health outcomes, and slightly worse when it comes to factors that…
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