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In the summer of 2007, Brenda Culhane started feeling weakness in her arms. Lifting boxes became difficult, and sometimes she noticed her hands shaking. Maybe it was a pinched nerve from a car accident several years ago, Culhane thought, or just a quirk of aging. She was active and healthy.
On Wednesday afternoon, the small wildfire that broke out near Peak 2 wasn't much to write home about. Firefighters observing it from across the valley guessed that it might have just been a half-dozen trees burning. But directly south of the innocent fire, the terrain was steep, dry and thick with fuel.
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a 13-part series. Installments will appear each Thursday in the Summit Daily. As evening approaches, Robert searches for an unrented - and unlocked - storage unit somewhere in the county. When he finds a suitable one, he slides the metal door open and moves in for the night, unloading the backpack he carries his life in.
Larry Hjermstad is a pioneer of cloud seeding, so naturally he has some frontier tales. Back in the 1970s, farmers in the San Luis Valley stalled his efforts to set up the area's first seeding operation, which aimed to increase precipitation by spraying dust into the skies.
He packed plenty of survival gear, apparently ready for a long trip. But for whatever reason, investigators say, he shot himself in the head on the west side of Peak 6 in 2012. Hikers found his skull four years later in July 2016, setting off a baffling death investigation that has yielded far more questions than answers.
The noise would start at 7 every morning and wouldn't stop until the evening, turning a rural neighborhood near Fairplay into an industrial zone, residents said. The culprit: a reality-TV gold mining operation that they say wrecked a hillside landscape, ran afoul of its permits and shattered the quiet of their neighborhood all summer.
Judge Karen Romeo was in an unenviable position Wednesday afternoon, with anguished faces arrayed on both sides of her courtroom, a raft of unresolved legal questions and sentencing laws that demanded she send a man to prison for no less than 16 years and as many as 48 to life.
Summit County has reached a preliminary $3.5 million settlement with the family of a man who died of alcohol withdrawal while in jail in 2013, suffering a heart attack after three days of symptoms with no medical care. The settlement is the second in four months reached by the county government over allegations of mismanagement at the Summit County Jail.
FRISCO, Colorado - A flight nurse who was seriously injured in a 2015 helicopter crash in Frisco has been awarded $100 million in a settlement with the helicopter's manufacturer and the company that operated it. Repsher's attorneys said they hope the extraordinary sum will compel the industry to improve helicopter crashworthiness.
Meth is a greedy drug. It took his mother from him when he was 15, and it came clawing after him next, offering release from his grief. Along the way, it would try to take everything else he had. His education. His home. His freedom. His self respect.
The plague has passed, but a resulting sickness lingers, with clusters of dead pines crawling up otherwise green mountainsides like gnarled, grey fingers. The pine beetle epidemics that killed them passed around 2013, but the blight left behind now covers 156,000 acres of forest in Summit County alone.
It's the size of a football, brilliant cherry-red and nearly a perfect square. Gem hunter Bryan Lees pulled it from the Sweet Home Mine near Alma in 1992, but now it sits in a display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It's the finest specimen of rhodochrosite in the world.
Ingrid Gaspar was in class on Tuesday when she got a text from a friend. "We're screwed," it said. Ingrid, an 18-year-old freshman at Colorado Mountain College in Dillon, was confused. Her friend clarified: the Trump administration had announced it was ending a deportation relief program for immigrants who came to the U.S.
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To close the skills gap, states are teaming up with industries that need, but can’t find, qualified workers.
On the morning of November 19, 2012, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine disappeared without a trace from his father's remote Colorado home. Nearly a year later, searchers finally found his remains. Investigators concluded that the boy had been murdered.
On a Monday night in early November, anonymous social media app Yik Yak exploded with racist posts at Colorado College. Just over a week later, two students were suspended in connection to the incident.