CSBJ Daily

The Internal Revenue Service will allow military personnel serving in combat zones to include nontaxable combat pay on 2007 or 2008 income tax returns if it helps eligibility for economic stimulus payments.
Combat zone personnel or spouses must file a 2007 income tax return by Oct. 15 in order to receive […]

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Monday proposed more than $1 million in penalties against the two companies involved in a fatal tunnel fire last year in Colorado.
The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed $845,100 in penalties against RPI Coating Inc. and $189,900 against Xcel Energy “for […]

The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES _ A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth.
The Lynx, about the size of a small private plane, is expected to begin flying in 2010, […]

An 84 Lumber Co. retail center at 625 N. Murray Blvd. will close, reperesentatives said this week.
The closure is one of nine in six markets, and the company’s operations will be consolidated in Henderson, Colo.
The Springs location employed only four people, who are expected to either relocate with the company […]

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office will open in El Paso County by the first of November, rather than early 2009 as previously expected, Federal officials told commissioners this week.
The local ICE office is expected to have 10 staff members who will look for illegal aliens. The office will also deal with […]

The Associated Press
Orders to factories for big-ticket manufactured goods fell for a second straight month in February, a worse-than-expected performance that provided more evidence of the economic troubles gripping the country.
The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that demand for durable goods dropped 1.7 percent last month, disappointing analysts who had been […]

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers this week confirmed the indictment of 10 people for mortgage real estate fraud.
Those indicted are mostly from the Denver metro area and include a real estate broker, a mortgage broker, an administrative assistant, a buyer and several income property investors, all operating as a group […]

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been ranked among America’s 50 Best Hospitals – the only recipient of the award in Colorado.
The designation, by nonprofit organization HealthGrades, ranks hospitals based solely on clinical outcomes, recognizing hospitals that have the highest outcomes during an eight-year period. The organization analyzed Medicare patient records […]

Woodmen Road will be closed at Powers Boulevard from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. during the night of April 1 for bridge construction.
Woodmen Road traffic will be detoured as follows:

Eastbound Woodmen Road – south on Austin Bluffs to Dublin, east to Powers Boulevard, then north to the temporary off-ramp back to Woodmen Road.
Westbound […]

Colorado’s forests might be getting a little safer.
An Allstate Insurance program will help repopulate Colorado pine forests that are stricken by mountain pine beetle infestations.
The Green pilot program offers insurance customers paperless bill paying and allows them to donate money to environmental causes. For each person that signs up for the […]