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Colorado mall shooting on Christmas Eve leaves 1 dead, 3 injured

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A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Jon and Carie Hallford, the owners of the Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found, are set to appear in court Tuesday, Dec. 5, facing allegations that they abused corpses, stole, money laundered and forged documents. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

The owners of a funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found are due to appear in court

By Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Jon and Carie Hallford, the owners of the Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found, are set to appear in court Tuesday, Dec. 5, facing allegations that they abused corpses, stole, money laundered and forged documents. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

Owners of a funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found to appear in court

By Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo. Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Authorities said Thursday they were investigating the improper storage of human remains at a southern Colorado funeral home that performs “green” burials without embalming chemicals or metal caskets. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)

Colorado funeral home owner where 115 decaying bodies found tried to conceal improper storage

By Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

President Joe Biden arrives at the 2023 United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden says U.S. is trusting Air Force grads to confront an ever-changing world

By Jeff Mordock and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this aerial image taken with a drone, a rainbow flag is unfurled at City Hall Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. With a growing and diversifying population, the city nestled at the foothills of the Rockies is a patchwork of disparate social and cultural fabrics. But last weekend’s shooting has raised uneasy questions about the lasting legacy of cultural conflicts that caught fire decades ago and gave Colorado Springs a reputation as a cauldron of religion-infused conservatism, where LGBTQ people didn't fit in with the most vocal community leaders' idea of family values (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Colorado Springs reckons with past after gay club shooting

By Sam Metz and Stephen Groves - Associated Press

Dallas Dutka of Broomfield, Colo., prays by a makeshift memorial, Tuesday Nov. 22, 2022, for the victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. Dutka's cousin, Daniel Aston, was killed in the shooting. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Defense: Colorado gay club shooting suspect is nonbinary

By Thomas Peipert, Jesse Bedayn and Brittany Peterson - Associated Press

This booking photo provided by the Colorado Springs, Colo., Police Department shared via Twitter shows Anderson Lee Aldrich. The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub has been ordered held without bail in an initial court appearance. (Colorado Springs Police Department via AP)

Suspect in deadly Club Q gay nightclub shooting claims to identify as nonbinary

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

People embrace during a candlelight vigil on a corner near the site of a weekend mass shooting at a gay bar, late Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Colorado shooting suspect changed name as teenager

By Thomas Peipert, Jesse Bedayn and Brittany Peterson - Associated Press

R.J. Lewis, center, attends a vigil at All Souls Unitarian Church with others, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo., following a fatal shooting at gay nightclub Club Q late the night before. Lewis was at Club Q when a 22-year-old gunman entered the LGBTQ nightclub killing several people and injuring multiple others. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP)

Patrons in gay club shooting hit gunman with his own weapon

By Thomas Peipert and Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

Kate Eustice of Willow Creek Wellness sets up a flower stand near a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, where a shooting occurred late Saturday night. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub, killing at least five people and leaving multiple others injured before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons and arrested by police who were on the scene within minutes, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Geneva Heffernan)

Colorado gunman who killed 5 was subdued by ‘heroic’ patrons

By Thomas Peipert and Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

USA Boxing team member Ginny Fuchs takes part in drills during media day for the team in a gym located in a converted Macy's Department store in Colorado Springs, Colo., in this Monday, June 7, 2021, file photo. Fuchs’ obsessive-compulsive disorder sometimes compels her to use a dozen toothbrushes a night and to buy hundreds of dollars of cleaning products per week. Yet Fuchs is headed to Tokyo next week to compete in the Olympic boxing tournament, where she realizes it’s almost impossible to avoid touching the blood, sweat and spit of her opponents.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) **FILE**

Olympic boxer Fuchs determined to win her fight against OCD

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

This photo provided by Kaiser Health News shows, from left, Abigail Sena leads the procession as an acolyte, followed by Gary Darress, a deacon, and Claire Elser, a curate, during worship services on Sunday, July 19, 2020, at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs, Colo. The church offers socially distant, outdoor Sunday worship services, in which attendees can sit spaced out on the lawn or listen on the radio from their cars. The evangelical stronghold of Colorado Springs has returned to the church in ways both guarded and full of gusto during the coronavirus pandemic. The state still limits how many people can gather and recommends social distancing practices. (Rachel Woolf for KHN via AP)

Colorado Springs churches reopening as pandemic continues

By Jakob Rodgers - Associated Press

Then-Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., left, shakes hands with Gen. John W. Raymond, the commander of the U.S. Space Command, Sept. 9, 2019, during a ceremony to recognize the establishment of the United States Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) ** FILE **

Gen. Joseph Dunford: U.S. faces ‘Sputnik moment’ in space race competition

Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, SEPT. 9 - In this July 29, 2017 photo,Mary Lundin, Francesca Watts, Joe Lavorini from left, clean water filters after a day of trail building with the Rocky Mountain Field Institute in Crestone, Colo. If all goes according to plan, the Colorado Springs-based nonprofit will wrap up its arduous effort to build the mile-long reroute to the 14,170-foot summit of Kit Carson Peak by the end of this month. The trail is set to be finished thanks to a compilation of grants and a hearty bunch of 20-somethings from around the country. (Doug Brownlie/The Gazette via AP)

New trail represents new age of experiencing Colorado 14ers

By SETH BOSTER - Associated Press

Colorado city approves law to keep people off street medians

Associated Press

Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina is seen in undated photos provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, and opened fire, launching several gunbattles and an hourslong standoff with police as patients and staff took cover. By the time the shooter surrendered, at least three people were killed, including a police officer and at least nine others were wounded, authorities said. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Robert Dear case: Court appearance set for suspect in Planned Parenthood shooting

By Sadie Gurman - Associated Press

This photo provided by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs shows Officer Garrett Swasey, who was killed in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., Friday, Nov. 27, 2015. (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs via AP)

Garrett Swasey, officer killed at Colorado Planned Parenthood, was co-pastor, figure skater

By Kristen Wyatt - Associated Press

Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina is seen in undated photos provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, and opened fire, launching several gunbattles and an hourslong standoff with police as patients and staff took cover. By the time the shooter surrendered, at least three people were killed, including a police officer and at least nine others were wounded, authorities said. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Robert Dear, suspect in Planned Parenthood shootings, made ‘no more baby parts’ comment: official

By Sadie Gurman - Associated Press