Author: Kirk Mitchell
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Search for body in Red Rocks cave continues
The search for a body that a spelunker claims he found while exploring a cave near Red Rocks Amphitheater resumed Friday morning with volunteers from Alpine Rescue Team and Jefferson County searchers hunting in caves and on steep, rocky cliffs. Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesman Mark Techmeyer said 25 Alpine Rescue volunteers, equipped with special mountain…
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Search for body in Red Rocks cave continues
The search for a body that a spelunker claims he found while exploring a cave near Red Rocks Amphitheater resumed Friday morning with volunteers from Alpine Rescue Team and Jefferson County searchers hunting in caves and on steep, rocky cliffs. Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesman Mark Techmeyer said 25 Alpine Rescue volunteers, equipped with special mountain…
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Two Pueblo lawmen killed in plane crash
A retired Pueblo police officer and a Pueblo sheriff’s captain were killed in a plane crash while they were searching for illegal pot fields in the San Isabel National Forest. The single-engine Piper Super Cruiser left Pueblo Memorial Airport Friday morning. The plane was supposed to return to the airport by 10 a.m., but it…
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Cañon City prison inmate mysteriously shot
The Colorado Inspector General’s office is investigating how an inmate at minimum security Four Mile Correctional Facility was shot in the knee while at the prison, authorities say. The inmate, who is serving a sentence on drug charges, was shot in the knee on Aug. 21, said Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti. The…
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Colorado conman killed by business partner in murder-suicide
Financial and emotional wreckage trailed behind Kenneth W. Germain from Boca Raton, Fla., to Littleton over a span of a quarter-century. Germain’s “shady” dealings swiped away the life savings of dozens of investors, including a piano teacher and a 90-year-old man. His grandiose schemes inevitably led to foreclosures, bankruptcies and divorces. But the pain he…
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Colorado conman killed by business partner in murder-suicide
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Financial and emotional wreckage trailed behind Kenneth W. Germain from Boca Raton, Fla., to Littleton over a span of a quarter-century. Germain’s “shady” dealings swiped away the life savings of dozens of investors, including a…
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Teacher convicted of child sex assault arrested during camping incident
A 26-year-old Basalt woman convicted of child sexual assault was arrested in southern Utah following a disturbance in which fellow campers complained of loud music and gunshots. Lauren Redfern was convicted of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust and is awaiting sentencing, according to a news release by the…
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Teacher convicted of child sex assault arrested during camping incident
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A 26-year-old Basalt woman convicted of child sexual assault was arrested in southern Utah following a disturbance in which fellow campers complained of loud music and gunshots. Lauren Redfern was convicted of sexual assault on…
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Snowpack at 2 percent of normal, leaving state vulnerable for more fires
The last time the snowpack in Colorado was this low — which is nearly nil — was in 2002, when the Hayman fire ravaged 214 square miles of forest land. The difference today, however, is that many of Colorado’s forests have been decimated by beetle kill, including much of the area where the High Park…
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Snowpack at 2 percent of normal, leaving Colorado vulnerable for more fires
The last time the snowpack in Colorado was this low — which is nearly nil — was in 2002, when the Hayman fire ravaged 214 square miles of forest land. The difference today, however, is that many of Colorado’s forests have been decimated by beetle kill, including much of the area where the High Park…