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Crews Clean Up Train Tanker Leaking Acid in Colo.
By not in system - AOL NewsMONUMENT, Colo. -- A hydrochloric acid spill forced hundreds of residents of a town just north of the U.S. Air Force Academy to spend a day away from home while crews transferred the dangerous chemical from a leaking train tanker to a safe container. Evacuations were ordered for 255 homes in Monument, a town of 6,800 near Colorado Springs, after the leak was discovered by another passing train around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. It's not clear how long it had been leaking as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train traveled from Kansas toward Denver. Everyone was allowed to go home by 10 p.m. after ...
Missing: Rare Tortoise. If Found: Please Return to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A rare tortoise has disappeared from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, and authorities think he may have been stolen. Zookeepers say they last saw 13-year-old Butti (BOO'-tee) on Monday afternoon in The Loft, a hands-on exhibit where visitors can handle Butti and his brother Tutti. ...
Defector Says Missing NC Boy Was Killed by Black Hebrews Cult Leader
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsPolice fear a missing 6-year-old North Carolina boy is dead after a former member of a polygamist cult said the child had been killed by the group's leader in a fit of rage. Jadon Higganbothan, whose mother is reportedly a member of a splinter group of the Black Hebrews sect, has been missing since October. An ex-member told police the boy was shot dead by cult leader Peter Moses, according to a warrant obtained by NBC News. The unidentified former member also accused Higganbothan's mother, Vania Sisk, of beating and fatally shooting Antoinetta McKoy, a missing North Carolina woman thought ...
'UFO Phil' Wants to Put a Pyramid on Pikes Peak
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsPhil Hill is a man with a dream -- a big dream. Maybe even an impossible dream. But this Don Quixote of the ET set is asking the U.S. government to allow him to build a giant pyramid on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado -- to be used by both humans and aliens. Lots of questions spring to mind: Who exactly is this guy? Why does he want to do this? How does he plan to achieve this monumental vision? And is this a particularly slow day for UFO and extraterrestrial news? Hill, a 39-year-old comedy songwriter and filmmaker from Colorado Springs, Colo., who also goes by the moniker "UFO Phil," claims ...
Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing; 2 Reported Injured
By not in system - AOL NewsA Delta Air Lines flight carrying more than 200 people made an emergency landing in Colorado Springs this morning. Passengers evacuated by emergency chutes, and two sustained minor injuries, a Colorado TV station reported. Mark Reis, Colorado Springs Gazette / MCT Passengers are led away from a plane that made an emergency landing at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport on Thursday. Delta said the plane diverted to Colorado because an emergency light indicated a problem, according to CNN. Flight 1921 was en route from Detroit to Phoenix when the pilot got on the intercom and ...
One Year Later, Family Still Awed by Miracle Recovery of Mom, Baby
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Strangers sometimes ask if they can touch 1-year-old Coltyn Hermanstorfer on the head or take his photo after he and his mother, Tracy, recovered from a near-death experience during childbirth last Christmas Eve. "People feel that he is, like, somehow connected right directly with God," said Coltyn's father, Mike Hermanstorfer. Mike Hermanstorfer isn't convinced of that - "We'll find that out later in life," he said - but he has no doubt it was a miracle, and he understands if others want to get as close to it as they can. "I'm not going to deny anybody," he ...
Sexual Assault Reports Increase at Military Academies
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Reported sexual assaults at the military's three academies increased dramatically in the 2009-2010 academic year, but those cases are likely only a fraction of the number of attacks that actually occur, the Pentagon said today. The 2009-2010 "Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies" found that reported assaults increased to 41, up from 25 in the 2008-2009 academic year. The 41 cases reported are probably just a fraction of the actual assaults, according to the report. "These survey results suggest that the 41 reports of sexual assault ...
Holy Cities, Holistic Bodies: Men's Health Ranks Religious Hot Spots
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe popular magazine Men's Health is best known for its glossy cover shots of guys with six-pack abs and features on diets and workouts so that you, too, can look like Mark Wahlberg (this month's pin-up), as well as advice on keeping your prostate healthy and your sex drive turbocharged. So when the latest edition hit the newsstands this week with a piece called "Holy Hometowns," it made some readers sit up a little straighter in their office chairs, and not just to strengthen their abdominal core. The unusual feature was part of the magazine's regular "Metrogrades" rankings of various ...
Police: Colo. Mother of Dead Twins Committed Suicide
By David Lohr - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- The Colorado Springs woman found dead along with her 13-year-old twins in their home this week had committed suicide, police said today. "Rene Ogden died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death is ruled a suicide," Colorado Springs police Sgt. Steve Noblitt said in a statement to AOL News. Autopsy results indicate that Chase Ogden and Olivia Ogden each died from a gunshot wound to the head in what are being ruled homicides, he added. Authorities stopped short of saying they now consider the investigation a case of murder-suicide. "No further ...
Facebook Message Led to Arrests in Child's Death
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 9) -- A Facebook message led investigators to a couple suspected in the death of a girl whose body was found in a vacant Colorado home, authorities said Thursday. Hanif Sims and his girlfriend, Monique Lynch, both 29, were arrested Wednesday in Henderson, Nev. The El Paso County sheriff's department issued arrest warrants Thursday for both on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. The two were being held in jail on $500,000 bond each. The sheriff's office has started extradition proceedings to return them to Colorado. Investigators had been looking for ...
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