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 Courtesy photo/KMGH-TV, Denver/Aspen Daily News A single-engine Cessna piloted by Barry Maggert of Carbondale crashed near Black Hawk while en route to Boulder for his son’s college graduation.
by Lynn Burton and Catherine Lutz Friday, May 9, 2008
A single-engine plane believed to have been piloted by Carbondale resident Barry Maggert crashed near Black Hawk on Thursday afternoon.
The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed one fatality and one person injured as a result of the crash, which occurred in a mountainous, wooded area at approximately 10,300 feet.
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by Catherine Lutz, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 9, 2008
A Texas company accused of human trafficking in a federal lawsuit has been working as a subcontractor on the Residences at Little Nell construction project in Aspen.
Leno and Company, which is registered as an LLC in Denton, Texas, has been operating as a labor broker at several construction sites in Colorado, according to a carpenters’ union representative, despite the fact that it is not registered to do business in the state of Colorado.
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by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 9, 2008
Less than three weeks before the start of his Aspen trial on 30 fraud-related charges, alleged scam artist Peter Frommer has gotten some breathing room — and, he says, a new lawyer.
At an all-day hearing yesterday, Judge James Boyd agreed to postpone Frommer’s May 27 trial date. Frommer’s current lawyer, public defender Garth McCarty, said Frommer had reached an agreement with a private defense lawyer who would represent him only if given enough time to prepare for the trial. That means no trial on May 27, no trial this summer, and probably no trial until October or November.
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by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Friday, May 9, 2008
Mr. Pipeline is dropping into Carbondale.
Gerry Lopez, who dominated the premiere surf break on Oahu’s North Shore in the 1970s with his elegant tube riding, will appear in the Roaring Fork Valley for the first time during the Five Point Film Festival, which started yesterday in Carbondale.
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Aspen Daily News Staff Report Friday, May 9, 2008
A two-vehicle collission late Thursday night seriously injured three people and shut down the western leg of Two Rivers Road in Basalt.
Firefighters at the crash confirmed the injuries were life-threatening. A blockade of police and emergency vehicles kept traffic from passing, including a RFTA bus that parked waiting within eyesight of the wreckage. One passerby stood on the street, smoked a cigarette and remarked that he hoped everyone survived the brutal collision.
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Aspen Daily News Staff Report Friday, May 9, 2008 As the hour inched toward midnight at Belly Up Aspen’s campy “’80s Prom Night” Saturday, not everyone was making out and slow dancing to Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” on the club’s sunken dance floor.
Police say that owner Michael Goldberg and patron Daniel Wettstein had taken it outside and were in a “heated argument” on Galena Street when they arrived. When police told Wettstein, 23, to step away from the fight, he allegedly clenched his fists and charged toward an Aspen police officer. He was arrested and cited for disorderly conduct. Full Story »
Aspen Daily News Staff Report Friday, May 9, 2008 Pitkin County sheriff’s deputies responded to an apparent suicide in Crystal River Estates south of Carbondale on Thursday night.
Pitkin County Patrol Director Mario Strobl said dispatch received a call at 6:56 p.m. that a 56-year-old man had apparently killed himself. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Full Story »
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