Tag: Montana
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Fort Collins man convicted of kidnapping and killing a Montana woman in 2021
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jury convicted Casey Childers, 41, of kidnapping and killing Rachel Holeman, 29, Thursday afternoon. Childers kidnapped Holeman in 2021 with the help of Shantel Edlund, 46, and Leo VanBuskirk, 23. Holeman is from Montana and the others are from Wyoming. The Fort Collins Police…
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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‘Deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced’: DEA seized record amount of fentanyl in Colorado last year
A total of 522 people died from drug overdoses in Denver in 2023, the most since tracking began in 1923, according to Denver’s Office of the Medical Examiner. Around 40% of those deaths involved the use of fentanyl, according to the office. In an effort to battle the ongoing fentanyl war that has blazed since…
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‘It’s our Grand Slam’: The National Western Stock Show finally arrives in Denver
Nick Cragen stood next to his daughter, Amelia, and their Miniature Hereford cow on Saturday morning, preparing to show the small cow off to a panel of judges. Amelia was born with Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), a neurological movement disorder that drops a person’s average lifespan to eight or nine years. Amelia is 12, and…
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After Colorado 14ers, daring ‘Rocky Mountain Grand Slam’ attempt falls short
Last week, after days of treacherous trudging through unrelenting snow and loose rock in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, Jason Heyn finally turned around. He started walking down the road to the town of Red Lodge. He told himself he would accept a ride if one was offered. “Sure enough, about 6 miles outside of town, someone…
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3 states, 100-plus peaks, no car: One man’s big walk starting in Colorado
One recent morning along 14,000-foot Culebra Peak in southern Colorado, a pair of hikers offered some assistance to another they met. They learned this young man named Jason had been backpacking around without a sleeping pad. “It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, you’ve been sleeping on the ground?’” recalled Mark Reis, who was taking unrelated…
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Colorado drought conditions improve again slightly
With recent rain and snow across the state, Colorado’s drought conditions continue to improve slightly, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, though the area remains in a long-term drought. Two weeks of precipitation have finally pushed a small part of the state, in the northern Rockies, back into “normal” conditions. “Rain and mountain snow…
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SCL Health merging with system based in Salt Lake City
Broomfield-based SCL Health, a major provider of health care in Colorado, Montana and Kansas, announced Thursday it intends to merge with Intermountain Healthcare. If approved by regulators, the merger of the two nonprofit integrated hospital networks would create a 33-hospital system with more than 58,000 caregivers and run 385 clinics across six states, including the…
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Englewood’s Seth DeMoor, Crested Butte’s Stevie Kremer win Pikes Peak Marathon
The Pikes Peak Marathon was a win for parents with an assist to their partners Sunday. After Seth DeMoor won the men’s marathon for a second straight year in 3 hours, 36 minutes and 33 seconds, the Englewood resident scooped up his four sons and kissed his wife, Brigid. “She does the hard work,” DeMoor…