SUNRISE: Man shot outside Colorado Springs saloon
A man was shot multiple times at about 1:40 a.m. Friday outside Copperhead Road Honky Tonk Saloon, 3330 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs police said.
Two men began fighting in the bar and the bar's security team moved them outside, police reported. One man pulled a gun out of his pocket and shot the other, a 25-year-old man, police said.
Michael Rice, 37, the alleged shooter, tried to run from the area but was captured and held for officers by the bar's security staff, police said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment. His name and condition were not released Friday morning.
Rice was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and booked into the El Paso County jail.
Search continues for man reported missing Thursday night in Security
UPDATE: A body was reported in Fountain Creek near the area where searchers were looking for Eugene Harris on Friday morning. The person's identity was not known at 8:35 a.m.
Check back at gazette.com for details as the story develops.
A search is under way Friday morning for a developmentally disabled man whose family reported him missing Thursday night.
Eugene Harris left his family's home on Hayes Avenue in Security at about 7 p.m., saying he was walking to Wal-Mart on Highway 85. His family reported him missing a couple of hours later.
The search is concentrated around Security Drive and Highway 85, authorities said. Searchers looked along a culvert and along Fountain Boulevard where someone reported seeing someone walking Thursday night.
Harris is 23 years old, about 5-foot, 7-inches tall, and weighs 170 to 180 pounds. He uses a hearing aid.
WEATHER
Expect the early morning fog to burn off by 9 a.m. Friday and the high to reach 72 degrees under sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service. It will be partly sunny, but there is a chance of thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
Similar conditions are forecast through the weekend.
AROUND COLORADO
2 accused of running up tab on dead man's ATM card
DENVER (AP) — Two men accused of driving around with a dead friend, using his ATM card and visiting a strip club are charged with abusing a corpse, identity theft and criminal impersonation.
Robert Jeffrey Young and Mark Rubinson are free on bond but they couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
It's unclear how Jeffrey Jarrett died, but the men are not charged in his death.
The Denver Post reports that an affidavit accuses Young and Rubinson of leaving Jarrett's body in the car while they drank at a bar on his tab Aug. 27.
Investigators allege the men stopped at a restaurant, returned Jarrett's body to his home, used Jarrett's ATM card and withdrew $400 at a strip club before reporting Jarrett's death.
Mongolia's first lady visits Denver for fundraiser
DENVER (AP) — Mongolia's first lady is visiting Denver for a fundraiser to send medical supplies and equipment to her country's hospitals and clinics.
Bolormaa Khajidsuren was scheduled to be at the luncheon Friday organized by Project CURE. The Colorado-based nonprofit has previously hosted similar fundraisers for first ladies from Mexico, El Salvador, Ghana, Tanzania, Belize and Panama.
Combined, the past fundraisers have enabled the nonprofit to deliver more than $11 million in supplies to the countries of visiting first ladies.
Organizers say they hope to raise enough money to deliver more than $2 million in medical supplies and equipment to Mongolia. About 1,800 city and state business leaders were expected at the luncheon.
Colorado farm says Listeria found in cantaloupe
A melon farm in Colorado has issued a recall of cantaloupe following a Listeria outbreak that has killed at least two people, sickened 22 and spread to several states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the deaths from the outbreak were reported in Colorado and New Mexico, and state health departments said more deaths could be confirmed once testing comes back.
The CDC said the 22 people infected are in seven states: Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia.
Jensen Farms spokeswoman Amy Philpott said that one of the Colorado farm's Rocky Ford cantaloupes tested positive for the bacteria, but more tests are needed to determine if it's the same strain linked to the outbreak.
Judge dismisses lawsuit against Denver police
DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was illegally stopped and falsely arrested by Denver police in 2008.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Blackburn on Thursday dismissed Deneen Gammons' claims against the city and county of Denver, Police Chief Gerald Whitman and four officers. The judge asked her to prove why her claims against unnamed Denver police shouldn't also be dismissed.
Blackburn's ruling says there was probable cause to arrest Gammons. It also says the statute of limitations bars some of her claims and that Gammons hadn't presented enough evidence to support other allegations.
Former Colorado man convicted of defrauding US
DENVER (AP) — A federal jury in Erie, Pa., has convicted a former Littleton man of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Turner, also known as Donald Wood, had promoted a book about how to avoid paying federal income tax.
They say Meadville, Pa., veterinarian Daniel Leveto also promoted the book and sold his veterinary business to an offshore entity to hide income from the IRS. Leveto was sentenced in 2005 to nearly four years in prison.
Turner faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at a sentencing hearing set for Jan. 18.
GOP voices opposition to $3B tax hike for schools
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republicans say a proposal to raise taxes by $3 billion over five years to help fund the state's education system will harm an already fragile economy.
Former state Rep. Victor Mitchell says the proposal on this November's ballot would be "a crushing blow" to the Colorado economy if it's approved.
The proposal known as Proposition 103 would raise the sales and use tax rate to 3 percent, up from 2.9 percent, and raise the state's individual and corporate tax rates to 5 percent, up from 4.63 percent. The increases would be in effect from 2012 to 2017.
Mitchell and some current state lawmakers said Thursday afternoon the tax hike would result in job losses.
Democratic Sen. Rollie Heath says having a good education system is the best economic driver.
HAPPENINGS
-- Farmers market, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., West Henrietta Avenue and North Center Street, Woodland Park.
-- “Monumental Readers,” “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, 10 a.m., Monument Library Branch, 1706 Lake Woodmoor Drive, Monument, free.
-- “Annual Holly Berry House Folk Art Festival,” noon-6 p.m. , Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, 30th Street at Gateway Road, $6 for adults, $4 for seniors, $2 for ages 6-12.
