Third blizzard in 3 weeks blankets Colorado towns
DENVER – The third snowstorm in as many weeks barreled into Colorado on Friday, blanketing the Denver area with up to 8 inches of new snow and further hampering efforts to rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week’s blizzard. Crews worked around the clock to clear roads so residents could get to stores for food and medicine. Several school districts canceled classes because winds gusts up to 30 mph had reduced visibility. In Kansas, an estimated 60,000 people were still without power after more than a week, and the new storm was headed their way after dumping nearly a foot of snow west of Denver.
Airliner near-miss at Denver airport
A Frontier Airlines jet attempting to land Friday at Denver International Airport came within 50 feet of a smaller charter plane that had inadvertently entered the runway, federal aviation officials said. The Frontier crew spotted the Key Lime Air plane in time, aborted the landing and continued flying until it could land the jetliner a short time later, authorities said. No injuries were reported. Frontier and Key Lime officials declined comment. It was snowing and misty at the time.
California: Schwarzenegger sworn in
Parting ways with national Republican Party leaders, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proudly proclaimed himself a centrist as he was sworn in for a second term Friday, holding that partisanship in California is in decline and promising to usher in a “post-partisan” approach to California’s problems. Schwarzenegger said he wants to chart a third way that combines elements of both Democratic and Republican ideology.
Alabama: Holloway parents divorce
The stepfather of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba in 2005, has filed for divorce from Holloway’s mother. George and Beth Twitty separated Dec. 15 and have “such a complete incompatibility of temperament that the parties can no longer live together,” according to his Dec. 29 court filing in Jefferson County. The couple, whose 2000 union was a second marriage for both, attracted international attention after 18-year-old Holloway disappeared in May 2005 during a trip with high school classmates.
Georgia: Hog outweighs ‘Hogzilla’
A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical “Hogzilla” caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood. The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Coursey’s front yard, not far from where the avid hunter said he shot the beast. He said he hauled it to a truck weight station, which recorded the hairy hog at 1,100 pounds. “Nobody keeps official records,” said an editor with Georgia Outdoor News. “But it’s one heck of a hog.”
Texas: Boy mimics hanging, dies
A 10-year-old boy was apparently mimicking Saddam Hussein’s execution when he hanged himself from a bunk bed, police and family members said. Sergio Pelico was found dead Sunday in his apartment bedroom after watching a news report on the execution of the former Iraqi leader, a Webster police spokesman said. “Our gut reaction is that he was experimenting,” he said after officials spoke with family members. An autopsy of the fifth-grader’s body was pending.
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