Colorado lawmakers give green light to bill prohibiting adult use of cellphones while driving

PLUS | Pair of rollover accidents keep CSFD busy Tuesday; Appeal hearing on controversial Colorado Springs apartments postponed and more. [View in browser]( [Share with a friend]( Springs PM Update Good evening! Today is Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Catch up on everything going on in Colorado in 5 minutes. [Colorado lawmakers give green light to bill prohibiting adult use of cellphones while driving]( A Senate committee Monday gave approval to a measure that will require adults to use hands-free cellphone devices or face harsher penalties for talking on a cellphone while driving. [Read More]( [Colorado College students break sound barrier — with a ping-pong ball]( In a classroom at Colorado College’s Barnes Science Center on Thursday, several CC students and a small group of observers from the National Society of Professional Engineers watched as the air pressure built inside a contraption that, if successful, would launch a near-weightless object faster than the speed of sound. [Read More]( [Student suffering medical emergency dies in UCCS campus gym]( A nursing student is dead following a medical emergency in a college gym Monday evening, according to University of Colorado Colorado Springs spokesperson Chris Valentine. Officials said at roughly 5 p.m., a person exercising in the campus recreation room collapsed. [Read More]( [Pair of rollover accidents keep CSFD busy Tuesday]( A pair of traffic accidents closed intersections and left people trapped inside wrecked vehicles around Colorado Springs Tuesday. The first crash involving a trapped individual occurred shortly after 11 a.m. at Fontanero and North El Paso streets where at least one truck rolled over, trapping at least one patient according to the Colorado Springs Fire Department. [Read More]( [Here's when bears should come out of hibernation in Colorado]( With spring quickly approaching, bears will soon be emerging from their dens with big appetites. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, bears go into hibernation in early November and emerge in mid-March. Bears consume 20,000 calories in the late summer and early fall in order to gain enough fat to survive the winter without eating or drinking. [Read More]( [Fort Carson to conduct combat aviation training exercise through March]( Beginning Tuesday, the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade will be conducting an aerial gunnery exercise surrounding southern Fort Carson through the beginning of March, according to a Tuesday morning announcement. [Read More]( [Appeal hearing on controversial Colorado Springs apartments postponed]( A hearing to appeal the development of the 232-affordable unit Royal Pines Apartments in Briargate, previously scheduled to take place at Tuesday's regular City Council meeting, is postponed. [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up [here.]( Engage in the conversation in [today's eEdition]( Interested in podcasts? Check out ours [here]( Already subscribed? [Log in.]( Manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [here.]( 30 East Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80903