 03/19/10 LUBBOCK -- Mike Leach is far from the world he knew in landlocked Lubbock.Instead of preparing for spring practice at Texas Tech, the former Red Raiders coach is enjoying fishing, exploring and meeting the people in Key West, Fla., where he and his f ...
 03/19/10 ASPEN, Colorado - Ian Michael Ranney was sentenced to 42 years in prison Thursday for ambushing and brutally attacking his ex-girlfriend in a Basalt-area trailer park in September 2008. Eagle County District Judge Fred Gannett said the "sheer viciousness" of the attack warranted the sentence. The evidence indicated Ranney intended to kill his ex-girlfriend. "You were on the cusp of accomplishing ...
 03/19/10 VAiL PASS - A FedEx semi truck pulling two trailers hit a patch of ice on westbound Interstate 70 and rolled Wednesday night, causing lane closures from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Nobody was hurt in the crash at milemarker 183, near the Vail Pass summit in Eagle County. Wednesday had been fairly warm, causing "significant runoff from snowmelt" across the highway. The sun fell and a roughly 50 yard ice ...
03/19/10 Matt Sandberg has been named publisher of the Summit Daily News. Sandberg, 35, has been director of sales for the Summit and Vail Daily newspapers since early 2009. Previously he was advertising director for the Summit Daily News and has worked at the newspaper since 2003. He replaces Jim Morgan, who for the past year has been both publisher of the Summit Daily and general manager of Colorado ...
03/19/10 GYPSUM, Colorado - It's not a move a coach ever likes to make, but Thursday it worked for Glenwood Springs boys lacrosse. Tied at 7 late in the first half at Eagle Valley, Demons coach Greg Schroeder pulled goalie John Adams in favor of Conner Pawlak. "It's just one of those days. Our starting goalie wasn't on," Schroeder said. "We had a backup goalie and we just made the choice. Sometimes, guys ...
 03/19/10 About this time of year birders get antsy and are searching the skies and trees for an early migrant. We should all be looking up to the sky searching for sandhill cranes. Reports are that they are at the Monte Vista National Wildlife Area in southwest Colorado. The refuge already held its Monte Vista Crane Festival, and there are still cranes on the refuge. Along the Platte River in Nebraska ...
03/19/10 In the early 20th century, Americans became ardent supporters of "good roads movements," as the age of the automobile had arrived. Denver hosted "good road conventions," and by 1908, Colorado began to employ convicts from the state penitentiary in Caon City for road construction. Convict labor built 1,000 miles of Colorado roads by 1915. In 1912, Greeley Commercial Club president D.J. Crockett ...
 03/18/10 Jacob Moore of Hampden Academy is one of five Maine schoolboy basketball standouts expected to participate Sunday in the second annual New England High School All-Star Challenge at Springfield (Mass.) College.
 03/18/10 Randy Campbell was a born sheep rancher. He grew up in a sheep ranching family, working beside his father, Ervin, and grandfather, Avery, on the Campbell Brothers ranch near Norwood, Colo. When middle school age, Randy was responsible for trailing hundreds of sheep down the highway from Redvale to Ophir. He was a hard worker who made a life-long career of the business he loved, managing sheep ...
 03/03/10 To own a beautiful home is a dream that is cherished by every individual. Colorado offers several op...
02/26/10 LITTLETON, Colo. - The Colorado school where two children were shot and wounded reopened Friday for students who wanted to talk to counselors or pick up items they left behind in the confusion that followed the attacks. A man with a hunting rifle opened fire outside Deer Creek Middle School in south suburban Denver on Tuesday. One of the wounded students, Reagan Weber, was treated for an arm ...
 02/26/10 The Colorado school where two children were shot and wounded has reopened for students who want to talk to counselors or pick up items they left behind in the confusion after the attack.
02/26/10 The Colorado school where two children were shot and wounded reopened Friday for students who wanted to talk to counselors or pick up items they left behind in the confusion that followed the attacks.
 02/26/10 LITTLETON, COLO. (AP) _ The Colorado school where two children were shot and wounded has reopened for students who want to talk to counselors or pick up items they left behind in the confusion that followed the attacks.
02/26/10 LITTLETON, Colo. -- The Colorado school where two children were shot and wounded has reopened for students who want to talk to counselors or pick up items they left behind in the confusion after the ...
02/26/10 DENVER - The Colorado Senate voted Friday to fund the state's tourism-promotion efforts to the tune of $15 million for 2010. The bill passed out of the state House of Representatives last week. This would be the second year in a row the Legislature will spend $15 million to market the state in national and international markets - a big relief for Colorado communities like Vail, for which tourism ...
02/26/10 EAGLE, Colorado - Inmates performing cleaning services at the Eagle County Justice Center last week reported vandalism to a couple of candy dispensers at the site. When Eagle Police responded to the report, they found one gumball machine and one peanut machine with holes burnt into the clear plastic container that held the edibles. The coin vaults were not tampered with and there was no other ...
02/26/10 EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Police are investigating a house burglary that was reported Dec. 11. An Eagle County couple left their home unlocked for about five hours and returned to find the residence had been ransacked. Among the stolen items were three laptop computers, a television, iPod, jewelry and an extensive amount of wood working equipment. Rummaged drawers were left open all over the ...
02/26/10 VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - Andrew Claymon, a Battle Mountain High School sophomore, is facing an extremely difficult battle with a very rare form of cancer. His family says Andrew is living each day to the fullest, and fulfilling his dreams of going fishing as often as possible. Members of the community have undertaken a fundraising drive to help send Andrew on a fishing trip, and offset other ...
02/20/10 VAIL, Colorado - A 42-year-old woman and 49-year-old man were escorted off Vail Mountain and met by sheriff deputies Feb. 6. The woman said she was skiing and went into Two Elk Lodge on top of the mountain. She said she saw the man there, who she knew from a Denver social club, which they were in together. She said she tapped him on the head with her ski glove to say hello. He got very upset and ...
02/20/10 EAGLE, Colorado - Disc golf courses around Eagle County are taken down about the time ski season starts, but that might change after Feb. 28. That's when the county's first Ice Bowl disc golf tournament takes to the air. There are a few important rules for all Ice Bowls, which have been going on all over the world for some time. One - "No wimps." Two - "No whiners." These winter disc golf ... | 
