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3:56 p.m.: A severe thunderstorm warning for Haxtun, Paoli and Dailey warns of wind gusts up to 60 mph and possible golf-ball sized hail until 4:30 p.m.
3:34 p.m.: A tornado touched down southeast of Fleming, moving east-southeast with golf-ball sized hail around 3:16 p.m., according to an update from the NWS.
Update 3:10 p.m.: Tornadoes and pea-sized hail are possible in part of Colorado’s northeast corner this afternoon, according to NWS offices.
Forecasters issued a tornado warning at 2:47 p.m.
Colorado Springs police officers fatally shot an armed man while responding to a call for a suicidal male with a firearm Saturday, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
Around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, officers received a call about a suicidal male with a gun in the 4200 block of Deerfield Hills Road, officials stated.
A 3-year-old boy with special needs is missing after he was last seen in Rocky Ford on Saturday, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Amari Galan was last seen around 4 a.m. Saturday and may have left his home near the 900 block of Washington Street on foot, officials said in a missing person alert Saturday afternoon.
Amari is Hispanic and described as 3 feet tall and 30 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing only a diaper.
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Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight.