Search for missing woman will resume when ice melts
Frisco – Police say the search for a missing woman whose delivery truck was found in Dillon Lake last week will resume by boat when ice on the lake melts.
Patricia McCormick, 62, was last seen Nov. 28 when she went on a delivery run for a NAPA auto parts store. Her badly damaged truck was spotted Thursday in 35 feet of water under thick ice.
It was pulled from the water Friday, but a systematic search with an underwater camera Saturday failed to find any sign of her.
Frisco police Sgt. Mark Heminghous said officers will keep an eye on the lake until spring.
“Someone will walk by once or twice a day until ice runoff, then we’ll search by boat,” he said.
After the pickup was discovered in the lake, police said it had likely gone out of control, tumbled over a guardrail and rolled down a steep slope into the water.
The Colorado State Patrol Accident Reconstruction Team was at the scene Friday, and the pickup was taken to a State Patrol garage for a close examination.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Motorcyclist killed in U.S. 285 wreck
A Franktown woman was killed when she was thrown from the motorcycle she was riding after it veered off U.S. 285 north of Parmalee Gulch Road just after 2 p.m. Sunday.
Ginger McIntire, 48, was northbound on a 2006 Harley- Davidson when it veered off the right side of the highway and hit a guardrail, said Trooper Eric Wynn of the State Patrol.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
Neither alcohol nor drugs are suspected in the accident, Wynn said.
PUEBLO
Biker who ran light injured in accident
A 47-year-old Pueblo West man was seriously injured after he ran a stoplight on a 1999 Harley-Davidson motorcycle and hit a 1987 Ford Astro Van at about 1:20 p.m. Sunday in a Pueblo intersection, police said.
The victim, whose name wasn’t released, was taken to Parkview Hospital then flown to a Denver hospital, according to a statement prepared by Sgt. Steve Zittel.
The driver of the van, Stephen Eugene Wigton, fled from the scene and was arrested a short time later, Zittel said.
Wigton was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident, failure to give information or aid after an accident involving serious bodily injury, failure to notify police of an accident, tampering with evidence, driving under suspension and having no proof of insurance, Zittel said.
COLORADO SPRINGS
Students offer ideas to CU diversity panel
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs should do more to encourage mentor relationships between students and professors, and recruit more minority students and faculty, several students said at a meeting on diversity.
At a day-long meeting Friday by the University of Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity, university officials outlined dozens of ways the school tries to serve minority groups and said they would consider adopting new ideas.
Student Crystal Bullard, who is black, said she wanted to see more variety in the scholars represented in classroom materials.
“A lot of the lessons are pretty much Eurocentric,” she said.
CU system president Hank Brown formed the 60-member commission on diversity to examine how the school’s campuses handle issues such as race and discrimination.
Meetings already have been held on the Denver and Boulder campuses.
Commission members were to issue a draft May 1 of recommendations for improving diversity on the Colorado Springs campus.
CHEYENNE
Up to $30,000 spent on wolf-plan lawsuit
Wyoming has spent between $20,000 and $30,000 so far on a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s rejection of its proposed wolf-management plan.
And Wyoming Attorney General Pat Crank said the state also has spent roughly the same amount on state lawyers to craft a separate petition asking the federal government to lift federal protection for wolves.
A federal appeals court last week upheld the dismissal of Wyoming’s lawsuit against the federal government over how wolves should be managed in the state once they’re removed from the endangered-species list.
U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson had ruled against the state in March 2005, saying the federal government’s decision didn’t violate the Endangered Species Act because the rejection didn’t determine wolves’ status under the act.
The state filed its lawsuit in 2004, after the rejection by federal officials.
The government has required Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to submit acceptable management plans before it will remove wolves from the endangered list.
While the federal government accepted plans from the other two states, it rejected Wyoming’s, which called for classifying wolves outside of Yellowstone National Park as predators that could be shot on sight.
The federal government maintains it must have acceptable plans from all three states before the wolves can be delisted.
Wolf numbers, meanwhile, continue to increase.
