Peetz – A 3-year-old boy who had been reported missing Sunday evening was found in an abandoned cistern, Logan County Sheriff Brett Powell said Sunday night.
The boy was taken to Sterling Regional Medical Center, but his condition was unknown, Powell said.
He said his office received a call shortly after 7 p.m. about the boy missing from a home near Peetz, in the northeastern corner of the state.
“What I was told was the kids were all outside playing, and when he didn’t come in with the rest of them, they went out looking,” Powell said. “He was found around 9 p.m. approximately, in an abandoned cistern of the property of the residence there.”
Powell said the cistern was about 14 to 16 inches wide and was not being used.
An investigation is continuing, and no charges have been filed, Powell said.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
2 mining students rescued on mountain
Two Colorado School of Mines students were rescued from Mount Zion late Sunday after calling Golden police and reporting they were stuck.
The students, both males, told police their flashlights were going out and one of the students had lost his foothold, said Sabrina D’Agosta, spokeswoman for the city of Golden.
“They were really scared, so we got the crews up there,” she said. She said about five different fire apparatus were used in bringing the pair off the mountain.
WELD COUNTY
Man’s body found aside road near I-25
A passing motorist early Sunday found the body of a man who appeared to be in his late 50s along a frontage road near Interstate 25, according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office.
Foul play was not suspected in the man’s death, but an autopsy was planned, sheriff’s spokeswoman Margie Martinez said.
The body was found between the median and the frontage road on the east side of Interstate 25 north of the Mead exit.
The man may be a transient, Martinez said.
DOUGLAS COUNTY
Driver dies when Jeep veers off I-25 and rolls
One person was killed when a driver lost control on Interstate 25 late Saturday.
The accident happened just before midnight.
The State Patrol reported that the 2004 Jeep Wrangler was heading north on I-25 near the Greenland exit, just south of Larkspur. The road was curving to the left, but the Jeep ran off the right side of the highway and rolled at least three times.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was thrown from the vehicle.
There were no passengers.
Alcohol may have been a factor, and toxicology reports are pending, said State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins.
Northbound I-25 was closed for about four hours.
ARVADA
Kitchen fire put out quickly; no one hurt
A kitchen fire damaged a home in the 5400 block of Dudley Court in Arvada early Sunday.
Firefighters saw flames and smoke coming from the house when they arrived shortly after 12:23 a.m.
The blaze was out by 12:45 a.m., and damage was limited to the kitchen.
Neither the woman who lives in the house nor firefighters were injured.
The cause of the fire was not determined Sunday and remains under investigation.
ASPEN
When lift breaks, man falls and then skis off
A man fell 10 feet but was not hurt when a chairlift on Aspen Mountain broke and tilted toward the ground because of metal fatigue.
Aspen spokesman Jeff Hanle said the unidentified man skied away and did not require treatment Saturday.
Hanle said the Ruthie’s Express lift chair broke about 1 p.m.
Two other people on the same chair managed to hang on until the ski patrol arrived.
The lift was shut down and all the other chairs examined. Hanle said he had never heard of a similar incident.
DENVER
Appeals court rejects inmates’ insect claims
Three prisoners serving potential life sentences in Colorado say their lives have been threatened – by mosquitoes.
The inmates, at Walsenburg and Limon prisons, sued, saying they were at risk of contacting West Nile virus or other diseases after they were bitten repeatedly by mosquitoes.
Stephen G. Glover, Alan Smith and Michael Freeman said the bites caused high fever, headache, neck stiffness and muscle weakness.
But the Colorado Court of Appeals swatted down their case and upheld a lower court’s decision to throw the case out.
