Gary Paul steps out of the truck along the edge of the county road, his cowboy boots turning slowly in the damp sand as he stretches his back.

Two adults were shot dead and a third was hospitalized in what deputies called a homicide-suicide Tuesday night in eastern El Paso County.

District Judge Gregory Werner granted Letecia Stauch's request to represent herself Friday in a trial for the alleged murder of her 11-year-old stepson Gannon.

As pandemic restrictions ease and churches open more fully, some congregants report feeling pressured to attend services in person. Colorado Springs resident J. Miller recently resigned her membership at Calvary Worship Center, saying the head pastor shames people who aren’t sitting in the pews.

Older white residents in the Denver metro area and Colorado Springs were roughly twice as likely as their Hispanic peers to get vaccinated in the state's push to inoculate its oldest residents, and activists say state leaders needed to do more to address the inequities affecting minority communities.

Crashes along the roughly 18-mile stretch of the Interstate 25 South “Gap” between Monument and Castle Rock have fallen slightly in the project’s third year, but the dip isn’t necessarily related to a decrease in traffic volume during the pandemic, officials said.

A mix of policy and behavior helped Colorado dodge a bullet late last year, contributing to a cumulative 2020 COVID-19 death count far below some of the worst-case scenarios predicted by the state's modeling team in the fall, one of its members says.

Longtime El Paso County prosecutor Donna Billek is set to be demoted next week, a move that freed up her senior rank for a former district attorney recruited after a controversial tenure in Adams and Broomfield counties.