Rob Namnoum
The Salida girls basketball team won the Class 3A state championship on Saturday afternoon. The Spartans beat Yuma 48-38. It is the first time in school history that Salida has won a state championship in girls basketball.
Michael Logerwell
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – High winds and rough waters overturned a 14-foot fishing boat on Lake Pueblo, Friday, sending the two people on board into the water. One boater was picked up by another vessel 100 yards away; the other did not make it out of the water until almost 9 hours later.
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Pueblo County Coroner identified 48-year-old Evans C. Downie of Howard, Colorado, as the man killed in the boating accident.
Downie’s cause of death is still under investigation by the coroner, and his next-of-kin have been notified.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the fishing boat was swamped by white-capped waves in an area of the lake that reached 40ft deep. The water temperature on Friday was 44 degrees (F).
Rob Namnoum
The St. Mary’s boys basketball team took on Strasburg in the Class 3A Final Four on Friday and lost 64-41.
Rob Namnoum
The Salida girls basketball team beat Denver Christian in the Class 3A Final Four on Friday 50-47.
Rob Namnoum
The Banning Lewis boys basketball team took on Forge Christian in the Class 3A Final Four on Friday and lost 58-57.
Bradley Davis
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The fourth-annual “Women of the World Fashion Show” premieres Saturday during International Women’s Weekend with world-renowned performers and fashion from around the world.
The show will feature performances from the local tapdancing group, The Celtic Steps, along with the Colorado Asian Heritage Center and the internationally-renowned Pacific Islander group, Kaliloa Kaleo’O’Onalani.
The group said a portion of the profits will support the Boss Babe Academy. It’s a week-long experience in Colorado Springs intended to help middle and high school girls grow their confidence, teach them business skills, and create connections.
The show is on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the Colorado Springs Hub. You can find ticket information here.
Scott Harrison
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — To truly understand how quickly this community northeast of Colorado Springs is growing, you need only drive south on Meridian Road between Bent Grass Meadows Drive and Eastonville Road.
The entire west side of that stretch is under construction — or soon will be.
Future development requires closing the right lane of the affected segment of Meridian for several weeks.
The first closure, in which crews are performing concrete and asphalt work on Owl Place between Meridian and the new Meridian Park Drive, began Wednesday and should be finished next week.
Meridian Park Drive is so new, however, that it doesn’t appear yet on most maps because it’s still being built.
On Monday, the same closure will continue until early April for a project to install a wastewater line on the north side of the construction zone, between Owl Place and Bent Grass.
Al Watson, a representative for the developer of the property, said that four new businesses — including two restaurants — are coming to the area.
Owl Place was formerly an unpaved road between Meridian to the east and several homes to the west, but development is changing the landscape and the infrastructure required.
Watson said that the current project required eliminating a left-turn lane on northbound Meridian at Owl Place to prevent drivers from crossing heavy southbound traffic.
Likewise, the crew is creating a right-turn-only lane into Owl Place on southbound Meridian.
“It’s because the county doesn’t want a lot of traffic trying to merge on and off Meridian at the same spot,” Watson explained. “So drivers won’t be able to turn right coming out onto Meridian.”
To enter the new development, drivers will have to turn west onto Eastonville Road, a major intersection where a roundabout was recently built for access to several new businesses, including a King Soopers.
The roundabout also connects to the future Meridian Park Drive, serving as the key access point for customers of the new businesses.
In the past year, KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior has reported on several infrastructure projects in that general area: A water line installation, left-turn upgrades on Meridian at the entrances to Walmart and McDonald’s, and a road reconstruction behind the Walmart.
What used to be considerable open space between Falcon and Colorado Springs is fast disappearing.
Gary Miller said that he and his wife are one of 13 of the original homeowners at the west end of Owl Place, and he reflects on the changes.
“It’s inevitable,” he said. “We can understand. We take it well. That’s how it evolves. But we’re not staying. We’re moving to northern Colorado to be with our grandkids.”
Michael Logerwell
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The cuts have become scars, the burning bear-mace sensation is gone, but the person responsible still runs free.
The Pueblo Police Department says they know who did it, but haven’t been able to make an arrest.
Mugshot from Pueblo County Sheriff’s Wanted Person Database
Stephanie Sanchez-Garza is wanted on 2nd Degree Assault of an at-risk person and Aggravated Robbery of an at-risk person.
“That bear spray felt like somebody had doused me with gas and lit it on fire,” long after the pain is gone, now 74-year-old Danny Pacheco still remembers the pain felt on Christmas night.
“Then she hit me again right here. Then she nailed me right here good. That’s when the blood started gushing,” Pacheco said.
His black eye has now healed, and the open wound above his eye is now just a scar, but the 74-year-old is still feeling the pain from that night.
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“What they did, it messed up my lungs a little bit more than they were. okay? Now I have to see a cardiologist again. I got to see a pulmonary doctor again. I got an eye doctor. I got to check on this. You know, somebody’s got to pay for it. I can’t pay for it. And then they got the ambulance, and that’s like $24,000 right there,” Pacheco said.
While Pueblo Police Officers continue their search for Sanchez-Garza, Pacheco has made some changes. He no longer walks through neighboring Bessemer Park at night, only during the day. However, even then, that change hasn’t kept him completely safe.
“I’ve had homeless [people] come up there, stop right there. They’re laughing and say they’re looking, they’re going to get you. I go, ‘who’s going to get me?’ hahaha, you’ll see.”
“I’m scared, but I’m not scared. You know, the only thing that they can do to me is kill me,” He said, pausing. “And I’m already dying.”
Pacheco tells KRDO13 there was a second woman there that night, too, but police have not shared a second active warrant out for that woman.
Rob Namnoum
The Lewis Palmer boys basketball team lost in the Class 5A Final Four to Silver Creek on Thursday afternoon 51-47.
Rob Namnoum
The St. Mary’s boys basketball team took on Colorado Springs Christian School in the Class 3A Great Eight. The Pirates won 67-60 to advance to the 3A Final Four.
