Fountain News

Last week, we featured a feel-good look at the nine best things ever to happen to our sometimes benighted community.

Voters passed pro-transit ballot initiatives in Colorado, Michigan, and Maine, while defeating one anti-transit measure in Ohio on November 3. Taking into account the successful passage of two additional transit-related initiatives earlier in the year, the success rate for public transportation ballot initiatives in 2009 is 70 percent.

In an extremely tight race for Manitou Springs mayor, the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder is reported Councilman Marc Snyder is edging out Rick Barry with 48 percent of the vote.

South Marksheffel Road is closed at the intersections of C & S Road and Link Road in the East Widefield Fountain area due to a water main break.

A snowy autumn storm that hit the Pikes Peak region on Wednesday should lighten up today, but drivers are warned: Roads probably will remain dangerous.

Three meetings are planned Nov. 12 to explain possible sweeping cuts Colorado Springs bus service in 2010.

Each victim is a face frozen in time, haunting investigators whose job it is to bring their killers to justice decades after the trail has gone cold.

Every time I pass by Fillmore and Templeton Gap, I can't help but miss Applejuice, the donkey.

States and municipalities across the nation are having difficulties balancing budgets because sales tax is declining nationally - it's a consumption-based tax, and consumers, of course, are "pulling back." Dr.

FOUNTAIN Two initiatives on this year's mail-in ballot could bring substantial change to the city of Fountain, potentially increasing its sales tax for the first time in more than two decades and amending the city's charter to extend the mayor's term from two to four years.

State Troopers are investigating a crash Saturday just after 6:30 PM that killed a man and injured a woman.

Marijuana's pungent odor filled the lobby at Colorado Springs police headquarters Tuesday afternoon as former drug suspect Stephan Thomas showed off nearly a half pound of the drug he reclaimed from police custody.

A southern Colorado girl can't give blood because she's too young, so on her 12th birthday, she decided to do the next best thing: throw a blood drive.

The military says a former Fort Carson soldier whose family lives in Colorado has died from injuries he suffered in combat in Afghanistan.

A local girl will be celebrating her birthday with a different kind of party this year.

A former Fort Carson soldier who has lived in Fountain with his family for the past 9-1/2 years and who deployed to Afghanistan last year from Fort Riley, Kan., died Wednesday from injuries suffered in a Sept.

A Fountain man was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of child enticement after he allegedly kissed a 13-year-old girl on her neck and tried to lure her into his car.

H1N1 flu vaccine will be available to members of the public beginning in late October as part of a large-scale effort involving physician offices, pharmacies and other agencies, coordinated by the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment.

Police in Fountain have arrested a man suspected of enticing a young girl. The reported incident happened early Tuesday morning.

Bailey Cole's birthday wish wasn't exactly what her mother expected. There was no mention of a new bike, an iPod, or other gotta-have-it gifts for a soon-to-be 12-year-old. The Fountain girl wanted to give blood, a request inspired by a TV show featuring a sickly child in need of routine transfusions.