Woman held in killing of man in Wattenburg
A 25-year-old Brighton woman has been arrested for investigation of second-degree murder in the death of a man in Wattenburg.
Heather Severson was being held Saturday without bond at the Weld County North Jail, said Vicki Harbert, Weld County Sheriff’s spokeswoman.
The identity of the man was not released pending notification of family members.
Deputies were called to a home on the 11000 block of Weld County Road 6 at 11:16 p.m., Harbert said.
The motive for the killing was not known.
Girls basketball coach arrested in sex assault
The coach of the girl’s basketball team at Colorado Springs’ Wasson High School has been arrested for suspicion of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female student at school.
Police said 52-year-old Charles Henry Myers had admitted the assault in a statement.
Myers, who was a contract coach and not a teacher, is no longer coaching, pending the outcome of the case.
Rescue teams looking for overdue aircraft
Search-and-rescue teams were scouring the Rabbit Ears Pass area for an overdue single-engine airplane Saturday night after a hunter reported a low-flying craft in the area.
“We think he was coming from the Midwest, but we don’t know that much,” Routt County Search and Rescue spokesman Randall Hannaway said. “We actually don’t know who is in the plane.”
Bus drivers suspended after rear-end wreck
Two school bus drivers have been suspended from driving for Durango School District 9-R pending the outcome of an investigation into a collision that sent 34 students to a hospital, district officials said.
The students were sent to Mercy Medical Center as a precaution, and all injuries were minor following the accident Thursday morning, district spokeswoman Deborah Uroda said.
An empty bus being driven by driver Mea Summerhays rear-ended a bus carrying 37 students that was driven by substitute driver David Atnip, Uroda said.
After the accident, both buses left the scene and went on to their destinations: Summerhays to the district’s transportation center and Atnip to Escalante Middle School, where students were examined after they got off the bus and told school officials about the crash.
Most students who complained of injuries said they had head and neck pain and some bruises, Uroda said.
Colo.-bound evacuee’s car found abandoned
Authorities were searching for a missing Houston evacuee who was headed to Colorado after a farmer found her car abandoned in a pasture near the town of Amber, Okla., Grady County officials said.
The farmer called authorities about 4 p.m. Thursday to report that the 2001 Ford Explorer driven by Sheril Susan Moore was about 300 yards from the road along a creek bed, said Grady County Undersheriff Irene Perske.
Moore, 59, who had fled Hurricane Rita and was heading to her son’s home in Golden, was last seen Sept. 23 shortly before midnight by Newcastle police officers.
Sheril Moore is white, with red hair and hazel eyes. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.
New America School gets OK for campus
The New America School received approval from the Jefferson County Board of Education last week to open a new campus in Jefferson County.
New America has two campuses – one each in the Denver and Adams 14 school districts.
The school targets immigrant students between the ages of 16 and 20 who are learning English and want to earn a high school education.
The school was founded by Jared Polis, a member of the state Board of Education.
Volunteers make kits for hurricane victims
More than $27,000 was raised Saturday during the sixth annual Denver Day of Impact held at 30 nonprofit agencies.
More than 400 volunteers cleaned up trails, painted homes and some volunteers assembled 2,000 personal hygiene kits that will be shipped out Monday for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma.
The one-day event was part of National Make a Difference Day.
Second ski area says it’s ready to open
Warm weather prevented Arapahoe Basin ski area from opening Friday as planned, but it will open today because of aggressive snowmaking.
“We’ll have all of our guns going Saturday night to get the ski area open for Sunday (today),” spokeswoman Leigh Hierholzer said.
She said the base is now 18 inches.
Ski and board rentals are open for the season, along with the retail shop, food and beverage areas and the 6th Alley bar.
The ski school will not be open until the Molly Hogan Learning Center opens in November.
Loveland Ski Area, on the other side of Loveland Pass, is the only other ski area open in the state.
