Golden – A person was found dead inside a Golden Terrace West mobile home following a fire early Saturday morning, officials said.
A man in his mid-40s lived in the trailer, but the victim was too badly burned to confirm identification, said city spokeswoman Sabrina D’Agosta.
The Golden Fire Department fought the blaze after a neighbor saw smoke and called at 2:48 a.m., D’Agosta said. Flames shot out of the trailer and could be seen from a mile away.
Firefighters extinguished the fire at 250 B St. and a crew entered the mobile home and found the victim, D’Agosta said. Golden fire investigators and police are trying to determine the cause of the fire.
Man tries to open door during flight
A man who tried to open a Frontier Airlines door during a flight Saturday from Denver to New York was subdued by a crew member and a passenger.
Authorities arrested the man when the plane touched down at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport.
The 128 passengers and crew weren’t in danger, said Frontier Airlines spokesman Joe Hodas. “A passenger who didn’t know how to do it couldn’t just open one of those doors. It’s not as simple as turning a doorknob.”
The passenger was restrained for the remainder of the flight. Alcohol is not suspected in the incident, Hodas added.
COLORADO SPRINGS
Haggard asks friends for cash as he studies
The Rev. Ted Haggard, who left the mega-church he founded after admitting to “sexual immorality,” has asked supporters for financial assistance while he and his wife pursue their studies.
The former New Life Church pastor plans to seek a master’s degree in counseling at the University of Phoenix while his wife studies psychology, he said in an e-mail sent last week to KRDO- TV in Colorado Springs.
The couple and two of their sons planned to move Oct. 1 to the Phoenix Dream Center, a faith-based halfway house in Phoenix, where Haggard and his wife would provide counseling, the e-mail said.
“It looks as though it will take two years for us to have adequate earning power again, so we are looking for people who will help us monthly for two years,” the e-mail said.
Haggard received a salary of $115,000 for the 10 months he worked in 2006, an $85,000 bonus, and a severance package that included a year’s salary of $138,000.
COLORADO SPRINGS
Mistrial declared in anti-war protest
A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of seven anti-war activists arrested during a St. Patrick’s Day parade. Jurors said they could not reach a verdict.
The activists had been in municipal court on misdemeanor counts of obstructing a passage or assembly, which is punishable with a $500 fine and 90 days in jail. City prosecutor Scott Patlin said no decision had been made on whether to seek a retrial.
Members of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission had received a permit to participate in the parade under the name of a business owned by a member. Parade officials asked police to remove the activists after the marchers displayed anti-war banners.
DENVER
Restaurant killer ends hunger strike
Convicted killer Nathan Dunlap was sent to Denver to receive medical treatment earlier this month while he was on a 24-day hunger strike, state officials said.
Dunlap, 33, the only inmate facing execution in Colorado, was taken to the Department of Corrections’ Denver Diagnostic and Reception Center on Aug. 2, said Katherine Sanguinetti, DOC spokeswoman.
He ended the hunger strike the next day and was returned on Aug. 10 to Colorado State Prison, the state’s maximum-security facility in Cañon City, she said.
Dunlap was convicted in the murder of four workers at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Aurora in 1993. The state Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence in May and ordered an execution date to be set.
Dunlap began his hunger strike on July 10, Sanguinetti said. For 24 days, he did not eat any food and drank only water. Sanguinetti said she does not know Dunlap’s reason for the hunger strike, his second in about three years.
VAIL
E. coli sickens 8 in Eagle County
At least eight people in Eagle County have become sick because of E. coli exposure, according to local and state health officials.
The Eagle County outbreak probably has been contained, officials said.
E. coli illness is spread through food and water that has been contaminated by fecal matter. In some people, particularly the elderly and children under 5, the infection can cause kidney complications. It can take from two to eight days before symptoms of the illness show, according to health officials.
Three child-care facilities are being investigated after sick children continued to attend, health officials said.
DENVER
Health-care costs topic of TV show
The rising costs of health care and proposals to provide coverage to Colorado’s uninsured will be the topic of this week’s “Your Show,” a production of 9News.
Viewers selected questions about the proposals being considered by Gov. Bill Ritter’s panel on health care that will be explored on the show, hosted by Adam Schrager.
Also, Colorado State University president Larry Penley and CSU head football coach Sonny Lubick will be guests on the show, which airs at 6 p.m. today on Channel 20.
