Author: Amy Beth Hanson
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Woman’s corpse and 30 cremated remains found after ex-funeral home owner gets evicted from house
Colorado authorities issued an arrest warrant for a former funeral home owner who they say kept a deceased woman’s body in a hearse for two years at a residence where police also found the cremated remains of at least 30 people
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Crowds flock to Yellowstone as park reopens after floods
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK • Throngs of tourists gleefully watched the legendary Old Faithful geyser shoot towering bursts of steaming water while others got stuck in “bison jams” on picturesque valley roads as visitors returned Wednesday for the partial reopening of Yellowstone National Park after destructive floods. Park managers raised the gates at three of Yellowstone’s…
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Flooding pummels Yellowstone region, leaves many stranded
Red Lodge, Mont. • More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation’s oldest national park, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream, officials said Tuesday. Remarkably, no one was reported injured or killed. The only visitors left in…
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Dog rescued from Colorado wastewater treatment plant
A 2-year-old English mastiff led astray by an escape-prone hound dog is happy to be home, but still stinks after being found stranded in muck at a wastewater treatment plant in Colorado. Gidget’s ordeal started when a walker coonhound named Buddy helped her escape from their house in Pueblo West on Sunday evening. “We have…
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Prosecutors: Teacher’s killer should remain in prison
HELENA, Mont. — A Colorado man’s reported attempts to manipulate the staff at the state psychiatric hospital prove he was mentally competent to plead guilty to killing an eastern Montana teacher, prosecutors said. The state filed its response this week to Michael Spell’s appeal of his conviction and 100-year prison sentence in the January 2012…
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Park Service considers visitor caps, expects record crowds
HELENA, Mont. — As the National Park Service kicks off a centennial summer expected to draw record crowds, the agency is seriously considering caps on how many people pass through some of the country’s most iconic landscapes and historical sites each day. Park managers have begun looking at whether, when and how best to manage…