TORNADO TOUCHES DOWN IN WELD COUNTY
COUNTY» A tornado WELD touched down Friday evening, the first this season for the Front Range, according to the National Weather Service.
The funnel cloud set down at 6:14 p.m. about 1 mile west of Galeton, said Frank Cooper, a meteorologist and spokesman with the weather service in Boulder. No damage or injuries were reported.
The weather service had issued a tornado warning for the area. Most of the threat was east of U.S. 85, the weather service said.
Kansas State to lower tuition for students in five states.
Kansas State University is becoming cheaper for good students from five more states.
The Kansas Board of Regents agreed this week to allow new students from Arkansas, California, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas to begin paying less in fall 2020. To qualify, they must have at least a 3.25 overall high school GPA and scores of either 22 on the ACT or 1100 on the SAT. President Richard Myers says it will help with recruitment.
Under the reduced rate, they would have paid $6,562.50 this fall for 14 credit hours. Regular outof-state students spent $11,610, and in-state students shelled out $4,375.
Qualifying students from nine other states already can receive out-ofstate tuition at the same reduced rate, 150 percent of the in-state tuition cost.
Injured skier flown from Aspen Highlands.
A 56-year-old man suffered serious injury from falling during a ski run. The man, whose identity was not released, fell while skiing the Highlands Bowl at Aspen Highlands on Thursday. Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle says the ski patrol responded and found the man to be unresponsive. Members of the ski patrol were able to revive him, and he was taken by helicopter to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction.
Colorado Springs hotel employees fired for sign disparaging military.
Two employees of a Colorado Springs hotel have been fired after making a sign critical of military personnel and displaying the sign at a military ball, hotel officials said.
The incident happened March 14 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Colorado Springs, according to the hotel’s general manager, Daniel Kammerer.
He was apologetic about the sign, which said: “No longer serving military personnel & their guest(s).”
The sign was created and displayed by two supervisors of the hotel and displayed at a post-deployment event, with more than 600 people, who were honoring and celebrating military service and sacrifice, as reported Friday by CBS 4. Kammerer, who has a brother who serves in the Navy, said the two employees have been fired and that their actions are not representative of the hotel and its staff.
Colorado man arrested in 1994 Texas killing.
PUEBLO»
Police have arrested a 73-year-old man wanted in Texas for a killing that happened 25 years ago.
The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office says deputies and federal marshals arrested Jesse D. Hogue of Pueblo West without incident Thursday and booked him into the Pueblo County Jail, where he will await extradition to Texas.