Colorado
Drivers get stuck after snowbank slide on Colorado highway
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Drivers spent part of their morning stuck in a snow bank slide Sunday.
The Colorado Department of Transportation said they were called to the slide on U.S. Highway 40 Berthoud Pass around 11:20 a.m. That’s where they reported at least ten vehicles caught in the slide.
CDOT said no injuries were reported and they were able to get all vehicles and passengers pulled from the slide shortly after noon.
They said the slide serves as a reminder that extreme winter conditions can make travel more treacherous. More snowfall is expected Monday, with some mountain areas expected to get 6-12″ according to CDOT.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center said an Avalanche Warning is also in effect for many parts of the western slope and southwest Colorado.
If you travel to the mountains and see an avalanche, CDOT says you should:
-Stay in your vehicle.
-Do not try to drive through the snow slide.
-Report the avalanche or snow slide.
-Try to position your vehicle near the shoulder so snow removal equipment can get by.
And if your vehicle is caught in an avalanche:
-Stay in your vehicle until maintenance and emergency responders come to your aid.
-Turn off your engine to avoid the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.
-If possible, report the avalanche from inside your vehicle.
-Keep emergency supplies in your vehicle. This includes water, snacks, extra clothes and blankets.
CDOT also says drivers need to pay attention to signs, telling you where you can and cannot park. You can also check road conditions here.
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Colorado elections clerk set to be released from prison Monday based on her sentence commutation
DENVER, Colo. (AP) — Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence for her role in a scheme to copy her county’s election system.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters’ sentence last month following pressure from President Donald Trump.
The Colorado Department of Corrections would not confirm the time of Peters’ release, and a representative for her attorney said Peters would not speak to the media when she is freed.
Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell — who himself denied that Trump lost the White House in 2020 — and the person copied the county’s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.
Peters then joined Lindell onstage at a “cybersymposium” that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.
Trump had championed Peters’ case, but because the 70-year-old was convicted under state law, he did not have the power to pardon her. Instead, the president pressured Polis to do so, lambasting him on social media and disinviting him to a White House meeting with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado and relocated the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.
Polis commuted Peters’ sentence on May 15. In a letter, he wrote that although Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison, the sentence was “extremely unusual and lengthy” for a first-time non-violent offender.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the move a “dark day for democracy” and said it amounted to ”selling out our state’s justice system for Trump.”
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