2 men killed, 1 woman hurt when Jeep rolls on W. Slope
Two men were killed and a woman was injured when a Jeep rolled off a state highway south of Grand Junction late Saturday.
Travis Eugene Ivie, 20, and Joshua Samuel Farley, 23, both of Grand Junction, died in the wreck on Colorado 141 about 10 miles south of Whitewater, according to the State Patrol.
Ivie and Farley were in a 1978 Jeep that went off the side of the road and, after the driver overcorrected, rolled 3 1/2 times on a brush-covered slope.
Ivie was pronounced dead at the scene. Farley was thrown from the Jeep. He was airlifted to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction in critical condition and died Sunday morning.
A passenger, Tonya Raymond, 20, walked away from the crash but collapsed on the side of the road. She suffered a broken collarbone and was listed in fair condition.
The State Patrol is investigating whether alcohol or speed was a factor in the crash.
Man accused of lying about kidnap report
A Vail man who was reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint Thursday was arrested Sunday, accused of lying about the incident.
Michael Sean Moore, 35, has been charged with several crimes, including aggravated robbery, false imprisonment, false reporting to authorities, menacing with a deadly weapon, theft and domestic violence.
The case is still being investigated, and Moore’s alleged accomplices are still at large.
Norwegian woman seeks visa extension
Immigration officials are examining whether to extend the visa of a Norwegian woman whose father inspired Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days festival so she can fight a harassment charge.
Police allege that Aud Morstoel, 74, hit former chamber of commerce president Teresa Warren on the shoulder in April because she was upset that her family wasn’t receiving more proceeds from the festival.
A Boulder County judge on Friday set a trial date of July 26 for Morstoel on the misdemeanor charge.
However, Morstoel’s three- month visa was to expire in June. If her request for a visa extension is denied before her trial date, she will have to return to Norway immediately, said Morstoel’s attorney, David Harrison. That could jeopardize her chances of being allowed to return to the U.S., because the case wouldn’t be resolved, Harrison said.
Wolf in preying pack captured; pups killed
An endangered Mexican gray wolf that was part of a cattle- killing pack has been captured in the Gila National Forest.
And six wild-born puppies that were possibly wolf-dog hybrids were put to death.
The healthy year-old male was captured in a trap Thursday and taken to the Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge north of Socorro, N.M., the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
The Fish and Wildlife Service ordered the killing of the pack because it had been preying on livestock in the Gila National Forest. It had killed four animals in the past several weeks.
The puppies were taken from an Arizona den where a lone female wolf had been. Biologists had determined that the pups were not pure Mexican wolves.
Fish and Wildlife began a release program in March 1998 to re-establish wild populations of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico after the species had been hunted to the brink of extinction in the early 1900s. There are now about 50 of the wolves in the wild.
AF base’s uniqueness helped it survive cut
The uniqueness of F.E. Warren Air Force Base and the Pentagon’s continuing commitment to a land-based nuclear weapons system were main factors in the installation surviving the latest round of closings, the base commander said.
Warren was not included on the list of facilities recommended for closing or realignment by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday.
After the proposal was announced, Col. Evan Hoapili, commander of Warren’s 90th Space Wing, noted that none of the trio of bases standing watch over the nation’s 500 land-based Minuteman III nuclear missiles – which includes Malmstrom air base in Montana and Minot in North Dakota – was on the list.
Warren is one of Wyoming’s largest employers, with 4,720 workers, including 956 civilians. It also maintains about eight multiple-warhead Peacekeeper missiles, but those are to be dismantled by September.
