NATION IN BRIEF

Police investigating incidents directed at Colorado justices after Trump removed from state’s ballot

DENVER — Police said Tuesday they are investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and providing extra patrols around their homes in Denver following the court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot.

The Denver Police Department declined in an email to provide details about its investigations, citing safety and privacy considerations and because they are ongoing.

The department “is currently investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and will continue working with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to thoroughly investigate any reports of threats or harassment,” the email said.

Officers responded to the home of one justice on Thursday evening, but police said it appeared to be a “hoax report.” That case is also still being investigated police said.

The FBI said it is working with local law enforcement on the matter.

“We will vigorously pursue investigations of any threat or use of violence committed by someone who uses extremist views to justify their actions regardless of motivation,” a spokesperson for the Denver’s

FBI office, Vikki Migoya, said in a statement.

Disney seeks records from Desantis’ oversight board in new lawsuit

Disney is accusing the Gov.

Ron Desantis-aligned tourism oversight district of violating Florida’s public records law by failing to properly preserve documents and turn them over in a timely manner, opening another front in an ongoing legal feud.

The entertainment giant filed a lawsuit Friday against the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and asked an Orange County circuit judge to set an immediate hearing and order the documents to be released.

“CFTOD has prevented Disney from discovering the actions of its government through public records requests, in violation of Florida law,” Disney’s lawyers wrote in the court filing.

A tourism oversight district spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

In February, Desantis replaced five Disney loyalists on the district’s board with Republican allies as part of a new state law overhauling the special district that provides government services to Disney World.

Disney’s attorneys accuse the new district administration of not fully complying with a May 11 public records request and lacking policies and procedures to ensure government-related communications on personal devices are preserved.

Disney is seeking text messages, voicemails and other communications from the district’s board members.

Record-breaking, historic Spacex booster topples on way back to Florida port

Rough weather at sea caused the Spacex Falcon 9 booster that had successfully landed a record 19 times to topple while getting a ride back to Florida.

Spacex announced late Monday that the booster, which first flew on the historic Demo-2 mission in 2020 that took NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into space, and still displays the NASA “worm” logo on its side, had made its final flight.

“During transport back to Port early this morning, the booster tipped over on the droneship due to high winds and waves. Newer Falcon boosters have upgraded landing legs with the capability to self-level and mitigate this type of issue,” Spacex posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Images on social media showed the booster having fallen to one side, with only the bottom portion of what had been the 135-foot-tall fuselage still on board the droneship Just Read the Instructions as it made its way into Port Canaveral on Tuesday morning.

“We are planning to salvage the engines and do life leader inspections on the remaining hardware,” said Spacex’s Jon Edwards, vice president for Falcon Launch Vehicles. “There is still quite a bit of value in this booster. We will not let it go to waste.”

The booster’s final flight occurred early Saturday, shuttling up another 23 of Spacex’s

Starlink satellites before making its final landing on the droneship.

6-year-old flying alone put on wrong flight, lands in Orlando

A 6-year-old boy flying alone from Philadelphia to Fort Myers was “incorrectly boarded” onto a flight to Orlando on Dec. 21, a Spirit Airlines spokesperson said Thursday.

The Spirit Airlines spokesperson said that the boy was always under the care and supervision of a Spirit ream member and that the boy’s family was contacted as soon as they discovered the error. The spokesperson did not say how the mistake was made, but said that an internal investigation was underway.

Source: Tribune News Service