OFFICIALS SEEK TO RESOLVE HOT SPRINGS POOL ISSUES

OURAY» Managers of the newly renovated Ouray Hot Springs pool are working to keep the water temperatures hot.

The Daily Sentinel reports swimmers expecting to soak in the hottest pool at 104 to 106 degrees have found temperatures fluctuating from the mid-80s to the upper 90s. Even the lap lanes are registering about 10 degrees cooler than the goal.

Ouray Resource Director Rick Noll says the city now has to wait for two contractors to figure out the issue.

The city hired Cloward H20 of Salt Lake City to design the facility, and FCI Constructors of Grand Junction handled the construction.

Gardner booed at town hall meeting.

Sen. Cory Gardner received boos and jeers while attempting to defend Republican efforts to rewrite the tax code.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports Gardner, at a town hall meeting Monday in Pueblo, argued that President Barack Obama also wanted to cut taxes.

Gardner also reminded everyone in the crowd that President Donald Trump won the popular vote in Pueblo County.

The Colorado Republican told the crowd of about 150 people that cutting corporate taxes would lead to better wages and a stronger economy.

That caused some in attendance to boo and yell out that “trickle down” economics had failed during President Ronald Reagan’s administration.

Judge says clinic shooter remains incompetent for trial.

SPRINGS» A COLORADO judge says a man who acknowledges killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic remains mentally incompetent, keeping the case against him stalled nearly two years after the shooting.

The Gazette reports that Robert Dear didn’t appear in court Tuesday for the routine update from the state psychiatric hospital. Dear has been in treatment there since he was deemed incompetent in May 2016.

Death penalty in play for suspect in Utah student’s shooting.

SALT LAKE

The death penalty is a possibility for an ex-convict accused of gunning down a University of Utah student with a weapon stolen from a slain Golden man, but prosecutors said Tuesday that decision won’t come soon.

After Austin Boutain made his first court appearance via video from jail, Salt Lake County deputy district attorney Matthew Janzen said the death penalty is in play because Boutain is charged with aggravated murder. A decision about seeking that option must wait until Boutain has other court hearings in the coming months, he said.

He and his wife, Kathleen Boutain, are accused of hatching a carjacking plot that led to the fatal shooting of Chenwei Guo, a 23-year-old computer science student from China. He was killed Oct. 30 in a canyon near the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City.

The couple also are accused in the Oct. 27 killing of Mitchell Ingle in Golden, but they have not been charged. The Boutains confessed in police interviews. — The Associated Press