Author: Jack Queen
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Trump booked at Georgia jail on election charges then released
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Donald Trump was booked at an Atlanta jail Thursday on more than a dozen felony charges as part of a wide-ranging criminal case stemming from the former president’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia. Trump – inmate no. P01135809, according to Fulton County Jail records – spent about 20…
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Murdoch to be deposed in $1.6B Dominion defamation case
NEW YORK • Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath on Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Election technology company Dominion Voting Systems is seeking $1.6 billion in damages from Fox News Network, which it alleges spread…
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Net neutrality vote emboldens advocates for public broadband
FRISCO — The recent controversial repeal of federal regulations that prevented internet providers from speeding up sites they favor and slow down or block others charts a new course for the web’s history. Open internet advocates say it will be a grim one, with consumers paying tiered pricing of certain types of sites and internet…
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Fixing Summit County forests with help of ‘citizen science’
FRISCO — The pine beetle came to Summit County in 2005, turning scores of trees red and creeping higher up the mountainsides each year. Twelve years later, nearly every stand of lodgepole pines has been affected, and they stand in gray, dead clusters, creating headaches for firefighters, forest managers and concerned residents. It’s been the…
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Dreams of weather mediations coming true in Colorado
FRISCO — 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. Wary of what he was up…
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Tenderfoot Fire near Dillon spreads to 21 acres; no evacuations underway yet
UPDATE (6:30 p.m.): A wildfire broke out near Dillon late Monday afternoon sending up a large plume of smoke and causing intermittent power outages, but the weather was favorable and limited its spread to roughly 21 acres. Firefighters with Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue and the U.S. Forest Service were working to contain the fire from below…
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After years of hiding, Summit County sheriff’s deputy comes out as transgender
On the morning of April 12, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office called a mandatory staff-wide meeting in the largest courtroom at the justice center in Breckenridge. Employees from the District Attorney’s Office came as well, along with probation staff and court clerks. Few in the room knew the reason for the unprecedented gathering of the…
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Colorado judge: Breath test evidence in DUI cases “something other than the truth”
Dozens of pending driving under the influence cases and prior convictions are now in legal limbo in Summit County after Judge Edward Casias deferred to a new statewide precedent that bars the use of blood alcohol testing machine results as evidence. The precedent, handed down in an order by Gilpin County Judge David Taylor last…
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Skier at Keystone Resort suffers multiple broken bones after alleged hit-and-run collision
At around 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 2, Stu Press and his girlfriend, Jenny Elma, were skiing down Haywood, a blue run at Keystone Resort leading to the base of the mountain. The two were roughly 50 feet from finishing their last run of the day, Press said, when he saw two snowboarders speed past…