Regis University News

An annual giveaway started by a Denver priest lives on. Hundreds of people, many of the homeless, lined up outside the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver to receive $20 Friday in a holiday season tradition started by the late Monsignor Charles B. Woodrich.

Bush to use near your bush -- or at least in the vicinity. Next week, Westword will be capping off 2009 with a blizzard of blogs leading up to our annual Year in Review issue: Look for them in this space.

Denver Public Schools officials yesterday announced a 3.2 percent improvement in its graduation rate over the year, bringing the district to a graduation rate of just under 53 percent.

A report on teacher preparation programs has given University of Colorado at Colorado Springs some good marks.

Tom & Jamie Nelson, Ringle and Steve & Olivia Hulke, Marquette, MI announces the engagement of their children, Emily and Andrew.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has called it "the Katrina of the West." Tiny pine bark beetles have devastated more than 2 million acres of pine trees in Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota.

Colorado baseball and softball is set to take another step toward developing major talent with the creation of the year-round Extra Innings training facility in Longmont.

When Ann Moore read "Cowboy Ethics," a book about what Wall Street bankers can learn from the Old West, she instantly identified it as the perfect teaching tool for her at-risk class of seniors at Cherry Creek High School, where half the kids had learning disabilities and one-third spoke English as a second language.

Two Colorado students are among the 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars named for 2010. Regis University senior William Gohl of Colorado Springs and U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Brittany Morreale of Palo Verdes Estates, Calif., are recipients of the scholarship, valued at $50,000 annually for attendance at Oxford University in England.

Richfield Hospitality, Inc. today announced that Angela Landgraf has joined the national hospitality firm as Senior Vice President of Development & Management Services.

Kathryn Dickson and Tyler Wesley Bain, both of Hermosa Beach, Calif., were married on Sept.

Caryl Nunez, a political science student at the University of Dayton in Ohio, told Catholic News Service it was comforting to know "it's not just me interested" in spreading awareness about human trafficking.

Regis University will conduct its final Father Woody Wrap Party in December to provide gifts to those less fortunate.

Two Colorado Springs college seniors are the only students in the state to win prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for 2010.

Qdoba Mexican Grill raises $25,000 for Starlight Children's Foundation and awards $5,000 to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America on behalf of winning Qmmunity star.

What a difference a year makes. Almost exactly twelve months ago, more than a hundred of Colorado's most committed marijuana activists got together for a " Colorado Marijuana Reform Seminar and Activist Boot Camp " at Regis University.

JAOpdahl 250-11 Abstract The Distance Learning Department of the Regis University Library is charged with providing library instruction for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in accelerated courses offered at six distance campus locations and online.

David Ramos was promoted to deputy chief of North Metro Fire Rescue. NORTH METRO FIRE RESCUE: Promoted David Ramos to deputy chief.

Three candidates will be sworn into office at the Nov. 17 Re-1J school board meeting.

With one classroom up and running, the U.S. Space Foundation on Monday officially moved its teacher training courses onto the campus of a Colorado Springs School District 11 middle school.