By Randy Wyrick EAGLE — A former Eagle County Sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty misdemeanor misconduct.Arthur Freemen Jr., 44, will spend a year on probation and perform 100 hours of community service.Freeman was a patrol deputy in 2014 and 2015, and while on duty he used his patrol vehicle for consensual sexual activity. An internal investig
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By Ryan Summerlin A Grand River Health emergency room physician praised for his dedication to working in developing, often troubled countries died this week in a hiking accident on Grizzly Creek Trail, authorities said Wednesday.Garfield County Coroner Rob Glassmire identified the victim as Dr. Bill Bevins, who also worked in the Valley View Hospit
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By Randy Wyrick GYPSUM — An early morning fire Wednesday consumed an unoccupied home 13 miles south of Gypsum.The call came in about 6:30 a.m. when passersby saw smoke and flames coming from the unoccupied house, 13 miles up Gypsum Creek Road. Because there’s no cellular service in that area, they drove to a nearby […]
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By Randy Wyrick GYPSUM — An early morning fire Wednesday consumed an unoccupied home 13 miles south of Gypsum.The call came in about 6:30 a.m. when passersby saw smoke and flames coming from the unoccupied house, 13 miles up Gypsum Creek Road. Because there’s no cellular service in that area, they drove to a nearby […]
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By Randy Wyrick GYPSUM — An early morning fire Wednesday consumed an unoccupied home 13 miles south of Gypsum.The call came in about 6:30 a.m. when passersby saw smoke and flames coming from the unoccupied house, 13 miles up Gypsum Creek Road. Because there’s no cellular service in that area, the reporting party drove to […]
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By RANDY ESSEX U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton easily brushed aside a Republican primary election challenge for the nomination to his Colorado 3rd District seat in Congress.Incomplete results Tuesday showed Tipton winning nearly 80 percent of the vote over 28-year-old Carbondale resident Alex Beinstein.He will face Democrat Gail Schwartz, a former state sen
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By Lauren Glendenning A 31-year-old Denver man in a modified Toyota FJ Cruiser rolled about 250 feet down the side of a tight switchback near Montezuma Basin on Forest Road 102 on Saturday and walked away mostly unscathed.James Scully was heading up to the Castle Peak and Conundrum Peak trailhead outside of Aspen and said […]
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By Randy Wyrick EDWARDS — Valerie Constien does not go around obstacles. She runs over them. It’s a life lesson Constien has always known and put to good use when the University of Colorado recruited her to run the steeplechase. She advanced to this year’s NCAA Division I track and field championships as a sophomore, […]
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By scott miller EDWARDS — There’s something missing for mountain residents in the federal Affordable Care Act — affordability.While rates for 2017 haven’t been set yet, Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar Tuesday told a nearly-full Colorado Mountain College lecture hall that rates could rise as much as 40 percent for
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By John LaConte VAIL — Vail Mountain unveiled the crown jewel of the new Epic Discovery summer adventure program on Tuesday with the Game Creek Areal Adventure zipline tour.The tour opens to the public Wednesday and includes a canopy tour of Game Creek Bowl on Vail Mountain through seven ziplines, each different than the next. […]
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