SNOWBOARDER DIES AFTER HITTING TREE

A snowboarder died three days after losing control and hitting a tree at Keystone Ski Resort.

Nathan Enright, 21, of Libertyville, Ill., was not wearing a helmet when he crashed Saturday on a beginner trail. He suffered severe head trauma and was taken off life support and died Tuesday.

He’s the second snowboarder to die in Colorado so far this ski season.

Collin Zak, 23, died Saturday after slamming into a tree at Monarch Ski Area. The Ohio soldier, who was stationed at Fort Carson, was wearing a helmet.

Mom says deputy should have used Taser.

The mother of a man shot and killed by an Adams County sheriff’s deputy said Friday that the deputy should have used his Taser instead of a gun to control her unarmed son, who panicked and ran when he saw a law enforcement officer because he was wanted on a minor crime.

“Now he’s dead. In a blink of an eye he is gone. At 19 my son lost his life,” said Andrea Feltman, 37, referring to her son Kyler “KyKy” Grabbingbear.

By all accounts, including by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, the confrontation that led to Grabbingbear’s shooting death was a matter of chance.

A deputy had responded to an emergency call to an apartment next to where Grabbingbear was at 3:34 a.m. Thursday.

Colorado Springs fugitive arrested in Pittsburgh.

A 24-year-old man wanted on a first-degree murder warrant has been arrested in Pittsburgh in the shooting death of a Colorado Springs teen in late October.

Donte Jose Mayo allegedly shot and killed 18-yearold Alex Eugene Ainsworth on Oct. 26.

Boulder spinal surgeon indicted.

A Boulder spinal surgeon was arrested Wednesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations she hid more than $200,000 in personal assets in a bankruptcy scheme.

Cathleen Van Buskirk was indicted Dec. 4 on charges of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of bankruptcy assets, fraudulent transfer and concealment, and money laundering, according to court records. Federal prosecutors allege in the indictment that in 2014 and 2015, Van Buskirk “devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud her creditors through a bankruptcy proceeding.”

The assets she failed to report, according to the indictment, included $46,000, as well as 200 U.S. silver dollars, foreign currency, gold coins and one diamond ring. Van Buskirk also transferred around $170,000 to several companies that prosecutors said she controlled even though they were registered to her sister or an employee.

Assisted living facility owner sentenced to work-release.

The owner of an assisted living facility outside Longmont was sentenced to one year in a jail work-release program after he was convicted of stealing from an elderly resident.

Christopher Allen Butler, 60, was sentenced after he was found guilty of one count of felony theft and three counts of theft from an at-risk elder.

The work-release program allows inmates to leave jail during the day for work, but they must return to custody at night. Butler also was given 10 years of probation.