REDFORD WEARS T-SHIRT FROM THE SINK

UTAH» Robert PARK CITY,

Redford, on stage Thursday in Park City, Utah, to open the Sundance Film Festival, sported a longsleeve T-shirt with a logo for The Sink, a long-time Boulder restaurant.

Redford, 81, founder of the festival, attended the University of Colorado in the mid-1950s and worked at The Sink while a college student.

Joined onstage by Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam and film festival director John Cooper, Redford and the panel addressed a range of topics including fake news and the current state of journalism.

Redford, who portrayed reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in the 1976 film “All the President’s Men,” told the audience he’s always been “a huge fan of journalism.”

“Journalism represents the truth and getting the truth to the people,” Redford said.

This year’s Sundance festival runs through Jan. 28.

Helicopter with Zimbabwean opposition leader crashes, kills five.

N.M.» A group of prominent friends, including a key Zimbabwean opposition leader and a Texasbased investor and philanthropist, was heading to a ranch in New Mexico when their helicopter crashed and burned in a remote area, killing five people aboard.

Friends and family members confirmed Thursday that opposition leader Roy Bennett and his wife, Heather, had traveled to New Mexico to spend time with friend and wealthy businessman Charles Burnett III at his ranch. Burnett’s friends, pilot Jamie Coleman Dodd of Colorado and co-pilot Paul Cobb of Texas, were ferrying the group aboard a Huey UH-1 when it went down after dark Wednesday. All five died, according to New Mexico State Police.

The only survivor was Andra Cobb, the co-pilot’s daughter who was in a long-term relationship with Burnett.

She was able to escape before the helicopter burst into flames.

Her voice breaking, Martha Cobb said her 39-yearold daughter was hospitalized with broken bones.

10-year-old killed in crash involving bus.

Authorities say a 10-year-old boy was killed in a traffic crash that involved four vehicles, including a school bus. The Durango Herald reported State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll said the boy was a passenger in an SUV stopped behind the bus Wednesday south of Durango. Driscoll said two SUVs were stopped behind the bus when the driver of a Ford F-550 rear-ended one of the SUVs. The truck pushed the two SUVs into the bus.

Charges are pending against the driver of the F-550.