TABERNASH
Hitchhiker’s death probed as homicide
Wyoming authorities are now investigating the death of a Colorado man whose body was found in the southwest Wyoming desert earlier this month as a hom icide.
Benjamin William Bradley, 29, an avid snowboarder, disappeared June 2 while hitchhiking from his hometown of Tabernash, in Grand County, to celebrate his birthday with friends in Jackson, Wyo., where he’d done seasonal work.
His body was found Oct. 1 at remote Boars Tusk near Rock Springs, Wyo. His remains were partially mummified by exposure to arid summer weather.
Sweetwater County, Wyo., sheriff’s Capt. Mike Dayton would not say how Bradley died.
PUEBLO
DA won’t file charges over rival attack ads
Pueblo County District Attorney Bill Thiebaut has decided against filing criminal charges over political ads attacking both the Republican and Democratic candidates for a seat in the state House.
Rep. Buffie McFadyen, D-Pueblo West, and GOP challenger Jeff Shaw accused independent groups of running ads that broke a state law making it illegal to make false statements in political campaigns.
McFadyen and Denver-based Coloradans for Ethics in Government had filed complaints saying ads by The Trailhead Group falsely portrayed her voting record and business practices. Shaw’s complaint said ads by Main Street Colorado wrongly described his position on mandating insurance company coverage for cancer screening.
In letters to both candidates, Thiebaut said a court would likely see the ads as part of a “time-honored tradition of advocacy and dissent.”
The ads, he said, reveal “the bad political blood that is shed to acquire power, and confirming the adage that political truth can be much stranger than fiction.”
DENVER
Motion filed to block roads at Wolf Creek
Coloradans fighting a proposed real estate development at the Wolf Creek Ski Area have filed a motion in federal court seeking to block the Forest Service from letting developers build two access roads until a lawsuit can be settled.
The motion for a temporary restraining order, filed Thursday by the group Colorado Wild, argues that “these forthcoming agency actions threaten to result in irreparable harm to the environment. … Only injunctive relief from the court will prevent these actions and associated harms from occurring.”
The Forest Service in April approved construction of two roads across public land to Texas billionaire B.J. “Red” McCombs’ proposed Village at Wolf Creek – 222,100 square feet of commercial space with housing for more than 10,000 people.
