Coloradans join Biden at White House for Respect for Marriage Act signing

PLUS l Boys set off deadly Lakewood apartment fire, Colorado Springs approves raises, new fire, police, park ranger positions and more. Springs AM Update [News]( [Sports]( [Opinion]( [Life]( Welcome to Wednesday. It’s Dec. 14, 2022. Take 5 minutes to catch up on what's happening in Colorado. In today’s edition: - [Colorado Springs approves raises, new fire, police, park ranger positions in 2023 budget]( - [Displaced columbarium for ashes of Colorado Springs homeless community finds permanent resting spot]( - [Court testimony: Boys set off deadly Lakewood apartment fire, then "ran off giggling"]( [Coloradans join Biden at the White House for Respect for Marriage Act signing]( Nic Grzecka, owner of Club Q, joined President Joe Biden at the White House for the signing of federal legislation that codifies same-sex marriage. [Read More]( Did you miss this? [Pueblo City Council indefinitely tables controversial proposed anti-abortion ordinance]( [Colorado Springs nonprofit prepares to help immigrants who unexpectedly arrived in Denver]( [City Council weighs revised ballot question to support open spaces in Colorado Springs]( [Displaced columbarium for ashes of Colorado Springs homeless community finds permanent resting spot]( Nomadic in life, homeless people who were displaced in death from a communal burial ground in Colorado Springs are reaching their last stop. [Read More]( [Woody Paige: Nikola Jokic gets early Christmas present]( Congratulations, compliments, confetti and cestitam (Serbian) to Nikola Jokic for being awarded his third NBA MVP trophy. The MVP trophy has been redesigned as a sculpture of Michael Jordan (although it’s not like Mike) emerging from a rock and will be given, retrospectively, to Jokic for the 2021-22 honor. [Read More]( [Colorado Springs approves raises, new fire, police, park ranger positions in 2023 budget]( The Colorado Springs City Council approved a $1 billion 2023 budget Tuesday that includes raises for employees, new police and firefighter positions, park rangers and permanent funding for a program to combat litter. [Read More]( MORE TOP STORIES The Colorado Springs City Council [declined to defend a city firefighter who is facing a criminal charge]( after allegedly driving over and killing a woman while responding to a fire in Dorchester Park. The Colorado Springs Independent, an alternative weekly newspaper that began nearly three decades ago, and its sister publications including the Colorado Springs Business Journal and Pikes Peak Bulletin, soon [will cease to exist as separate publications and instead be wrapped into a new Sixty35 News Magazine](, Sixty35 Media announced this week. Boys, ages 12 and 14, were so incensed at being kicked out of a Lakewood apartment into the cold of an early Halloween morning, they [retaliated with “a big ass fire,”]( according to testimony Tuesday at the suspects' preliminary hearing. Before you go.... [This morning's weather from American Furniture Warehouse:]( Intervals of clouds and sunshine. A few flurries or snow showers possible. High 38F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [here.]( 30 East Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Would you like to send this email to a friend? [Send To A Friend](