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Karin Zeitvogel
Editor | Storyteller | Photographer
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Colorado Republicans roared their approval of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and showed their lingering distrust of electronic voting systems at a gathering to select candidates for the June primaries.
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Colorado Republicans roared their approval of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and showed their lingering distrust of electronic voting systems at a gathering to select candidates for the June primaries.
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs a bill into law that allows military veterans to audit college courses for very little money.
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The winner of a triathlon in Pueblo gave his medal to a former rival who was seriously injured in a cycling accident at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A group of U.S. veterans has helped get more than 2,000 Afghans, including high-value targets like 'Mohammed', out of the country since the U.S. airlift ended in August 2021.
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There's a lot of depression and survivor guilt among Afghan evacuees who have arrived in their thousands in Germany, says an Army medic at a camp in Kaiserslautern.
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The Marine Corps Marathon usually sells out within minutes after registration opens in the spring, but in 2021, places were still available in September.
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A year after doctors said he wouldn’t be allowed to commission, an Air Force Academy graduate with Type 1 diabetes joins the Space Force.
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Airmen take part in a 'rodeo' at Ramstein Air Base, designed to help them learn and master skills they don’t use in their day-to-day work.
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Rheinland-Pfalz police release new evidence in the hunt for the killers of a woman whose body was found in an
alley in Kaiserslautern days before Christmas.
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More than a year after it barred entry to Americans as the coronavirus spread around the U.S., Germany says they can come back in if they're fully vaccinated.
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The Maginot Line's Simserhof fortification in eastern France gives visitors a glimpse into the hardship endured by World War II soldiers, and the absurdity of war.
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The active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms may be more effective at treating depression than a leading antidepressant, a study finds.
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The Wurstmarkt wine festival and a mass bike ride through German wine country are both canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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US President Donald Trump is said to have used the S word to describe several developing countries, sparking a bit of a diplomatic S-word-storm.
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Visitors to the Baltic state of Latvia can overnight in a former KGB prison where, if they step out of line, they could be made to clean the loos. Article in German.
Air Force Academy
Two U.S. Air Force Academy cadets are found dead in their rooms, weeks after the service academy sent all but graduating seniors home to minimize the risk of coronavirus infections, and isolated those remaining on campus in individual rooms.
Wine
A grand jury in the U.S. indicts an Indonesian man for allegedly passing off bottles of cheap plonk as pricey grands crus.
Politics
Democrat Adam Frisch is urged to 'do more, better' to be in with a chance of beating Republican representative for Colorado Congressional District 3, Lauren Boebert, in the 2022 midterms.
Lake Pueblo accident
A soldier and his wife who died on Lake Pueblo over the Memorial Day weekend were trying to save their kids after a boat they were on with 11 other people overturned.
Dogs
A military working dog from Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany “literally and figuratively had the biggest heart,” her former handler says, days after the German shepherd died at age 12.
Afghanistan
Volunteers are sewing hijabs out
of sheets and sorting through donated articles for Afghan
evacuees at Ramstein Air Base.
Travel
The German spa town of Bad Nauheim holds a three-day festival in August each year, honoring its most famous resident, U.S.
Army Pvt. Elvis Presley.
Afghanistan
Hundreds of evacuees from Afghanistan, including many families with children, arrive at Ramstein Air Base from Qatar after the Taliban retook control
of their country.
Coronavirus news
Some restrictions are reimposed in Kaiserslautern, home to thousands of Americans, after new coronavirus infections exceed 50 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Business
From using a toy train
to carry takeout meals
to customers,to doing
photo shoots of cakes,
businesses in the
Kaiserslautern area
are innovating to stay open during coronavirus lockdowns.
Military/Health
The Department of Veterans Affairs has denied care and disability benefits to many veterans who fell ill, including with serious illnesses like cancer, after serving at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan.
Science
When a U.S. military plane crash landed in the Swiss Alps in 1946, scientists asked that it be left where it was so they could track the movement of a glacier.
Health
President Barack Obama apologizes for a 1940s experiment in which hundreds of Guatemalans were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases
Lifestyle/Art
Members of the U.S. community in Kaiserslautern paint koala bears to raise money for Australia after deadly wildfires.
Global
South Sudan's leaders are bleeding the country dry to fuel lavish lifestyles and a war, the investigative group co-founded by George Clooney says.
Pueblo's Russian links
The Pueblo steel mill is owned by Evraz plc, a majority Russian-owned company set up after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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