Vicki is an amazing bundle of energy with organizational skills well-suited to her role as a real estate resource. Vicki and the people on her team are competent, courteous, efficient, effective, knowledgeable, and have high standards and integrity. It was obvious that Vicki and her team always had our best interests in mind throughout all of our transactions. Her range of expertise went beyond just the purchase and sale of real estate. Most importantly, Vicki seems to genuinely enjoy her work. I would recommend Vicki French without reservation as a top -notch real estate professional.
- Eve Tilley Chavez - CO
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At CSU Pueblo, faculty and students are split over concealed gun ban
Colorado State University-Pueblo faculty and students are divided on a proposed policy that would ban concealed weapons on campus.At separate meetings Monday afternoon, the Faculty Senate unanimously voted in favor and the Associated Students'...
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Taliban militants paralyze Kabul for hours
KABUL — Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings that paralyzed the city for...
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Former teachers give lesson that there's life after loss
Some who suffer deep personal loss try to bury their feelings.
For Dave and Beth Weikel, of Colorado Springs, hiding pain wasn’t an option.
In April 2006, the couple lost their son, Ian, a star quarterback at Fountain-Fort Carson High School who...
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SUNRISE: Police arrest two homeless men on night of community-wide homeless meeting
On the night of a community-wide evening on homeless issues, police arrested two homeless men Monday on unrelated crimes.
About 9:40 p.m. Monday, police were called to a fight behind the Wal-Mart at 700 S. Eighth St. Police say Byron Crone, 34,...
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Anti-death penalty movement targets conservatives
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Roy Brown seems like a rarity — an American conservative who's against the death penalty.
But to Brown, a state senator in Montana, the philosophy aligns perfectly with conservative ideology. He's among Republicans...
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Another Springs Subway robbed
Colorado Springs police were investigating another robbery of a Subway sandwich store Monday night.
A gunman ran away with an undisclosed amount of money about 8 p.m. after robbing the Subway at 2870 N. Powers Blvd., police reported. A police dog...
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Founder of Taco Bell dies
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. • Glen W. Bell Jr., an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Taco Bell chain, has died. He was 86.
Bell died Sunday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, according to a statement posted Monday on the Taco Bell Web site....
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Forum tackles homeless camp issues
Bus passes. A job network and training. A long hot shower. A safe place in the daytime. A shelter for homeless couples and pets. A unified voice.
Those were just a few of the ideas floated Monday night during a community forum on how to deal with the...
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Portrait shows morbid Poe in more flattering light
BALTIMORE — Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years — and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair.
However, scholars say Poe looked far more...
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New Jersey allows medical marijuana
TRENTON, N.J. • New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has signed legislation granting chronically ill patients legal access to marijuana.
Corzine's office said the governor signed the bill late Monday, his last full day in office. Gov.-elect Chris Christie...
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Magazine raises doubt over 'suicides' of 3 detainees at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — Three Guantanamo Bay detainees whose deaths were ruled a suicide in 2006 apparently had been transported from their cells hours before their deaths to a secret site on the island, an article in Harper’s magazine asserts.
The account...
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OUR VIEW: Americans want less government (vote in poll)
A huge story out of Washington may get little attention from the old media. A mainstream media snub, however, won’t stop this freedom train from rolling down hill.
Voters in Colorado Springs have made perfectly clear their desire for less...
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OUR VIEW: A Massachusetts miracle today?
All the usual caveats apply, in spades. Special elections, which traditionally bring out somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 percent of the voters, are especially difficult to call, and relatively small groups that get fired up can tip such an...
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Haitian orphans coming home early to waiting Springs parents
About 15 Colorado Springs families adopting Haitian orphans may bring their children home months or years earlier than planned.
The Haitian adoption process typically takes 18 months to three years to complete. But with chaos erupting and resources...
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Local GOP says a year made all the difference
A year after one of the darkest chapters in GOP history, El Paso County Republican Party members said Monday that they’re partying again.Polls show Republicans running strong in the race to replace departing Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter and...
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THE NOTEBOOK: Bone up for SATs with tutoralathon games
With SATs looming, an online educational company is offering up a bunch of free tutor guided games to give students a bit of practice.
Today through Friday, students can go to grockit.com and see where their knowledge is lacking and get some...
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OLYMPICS: U.S. lugers Grimmette, Martin finish seventh at World Cup
American lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin placed seventh Saturday at a World Cup in Oberhof, Germany, where the Germans used home-field advantage to sweep the podium in the doubles competition.
Grimmette and Martin are 11th in the World Cup...
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SIDE STREETS: The Berlin Wall came down; will Holger's?
Holger and Sally Christiansen started building this wall around their home at 1221 N. Cascade Ave. in 2007. It sits unfinished while they battle the city over zoning codes, permits, variances and encroachments.
Eventually, the city sued the...
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DATA GEEK: Corporate tax break costs Colorado $20 million a year, study says
Colorado’s state government is missing out on $20 million a year because of a corporate tax break that lawmakers could discontinue, says a new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
An excerpt from the study:
The federal government...
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More troops, aid to Haiti, but hunger persists
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday and officials said billions of dollars more will be needed following the quake that killed an estimated 200,000 people and left many still struggling to find a cup...
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