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1.Colorado State Patrol releases more information on fatal Sunday morning 1-70 crash 

A semitractor-trailer crash the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, killed three people and closed Interstate 70 between Exit 216 at Loveland Pass and Exit 205 at Silverthorne for about 12 hours.

The Colorado State Patrol, which responded to the crash at mile marker 208 around 5:42 a.m. Sunday, stated in a news release that night that the three victims were the driver, a 37-year-old female from Deming, New Mexico, and two passengers, a 39-year-old male also from Deming and a 9-year-old female from Jacksonville, Florida. All occupants were pronounced dead on scene. 

Summit County Coroner Amber Flenniken confirmed three people died in the crash. She said her office has “presumed identities” for the decedents, but officials are waiting for scientific positive identifications before releasing their names or where they were from.

-Kyle McCabe 

2.Breaking: Eastbound Highway 82 fully reopens following crash near Carbondale 

Update 9:35 a.m.: Both lanes of eastbound Colorado Highway 82 have reopened at mile marker 13, about 2 miles east of Carbondale, following a crash early Thursday morning, according to the Garfield County Emergency Communications Authority.

-Staff report 

3.Glenwood Springs City Council reverses course, drops South Bridge toll to keep project on schedule 

Glenwood Springs City Council voted 5-2 on Thursday to move forward with the long-planned South Bridge project without a toll inside the federally defined project area — reversing a Sept. 4 decision to include one. The change was made with the goal of preserving federal funding and keeping the project on track for bidding in early 2026.

Mayor Marco Dehm, Mayor Pro Tem Erin Zalinski and Councilors David Townsley, Mitchell Weimer and Sumner Shacter voted to remove the toll. Councilors Ray Schmahl and Steven Smith opposed the motion.

City Engineer Ryan Gordon told council that because the city’s federal grant application never included tolling, adding one now would be considered “a fairly significant change” by the Federal Highway Administration. Such a change, he said, would require revising the grant application, resubmitting it to the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., and conducting a full Environmental Assessment update and public process — all of which could push the project well past the September 2026 obligation deadline.

-Taylor Cramer 

4.Glenwood Springs police lieutenant graduates from FBI National Academy 

For Glenwood Springs Police Lt. Chris Dietrich, the road to Quantico began long before he wore a badge.

This summer, after 13 years with the Glenwood Springs Police Department, Dietrich graduated from the FBI National Academy — a 10-week leadership and professional development program that accepts fewer than 3% of applicants worldwide. Held at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia, the session brought together 250 law enforcement professionals from across the United States and 22 international students.

Dietrich grew up in Aurora and graduated from Evergreen High School before making a living as a blacksmith and farrier. Later, he moved into retail management to support his young family — work that offered stability but little fulfillment. During that time, he earned a degree in criminal justice, keeping alive a quiet belief that one day he’d serve his community in a different way.

-Taylor Cramer 

5. Colorado Parks and Wildlife halts search for depredating Copper Creek wolf as more livestock attacks are confirmed in Rio Blanco

After months of reported wolf activity and seven confirmed wolf attacks on livestock in Pitkin County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not verified any depredations in the county since mid-August, causing the agency to change course on attempts to euthanize a responsible Copper Creek wolf. 

However, as the activity slows in Pitkin County, the agency has confirmed two attacks in Rio Blanco this October following its removal operations in August, which ended in a wolf being shot but never recovered.

The decision to euthanize a chronically depredating wolf — defined as three or more depredation events in 30 days — is guided by Parks and Wildlife’s chronic depredation management directive. If the definition is met, impacted producers have utilized appropriate nonlethal deterrence methods, and lethal removal is likely to change pack behavior, the agency can then kill the responsible animal or animals. 

-Ali Longwell

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