A Colorado man was found dead Sunday in the Grand Canyon while on a group river trip, marking the seventh fatality in the national park since July 31. 

Grand Canyon National Park officials received a call early Sunday morning reporting a fatality at Poncho’s Kitchen, a part of the Canyon near the 137th mile of the Colorado River, according to a news release. 

The deceased was identified as Patrick Horton, a 59-year-old from Salida, Colorado who was visiting the Canyon on a “non-commercial” river trip, park service officials said in the release.

His body was found by other members of his party on the 10th day of their trip. 

The Grand Canyon has had a turbulent summer with six deaths in August alone, ranging from a woman being swept away by a flash flood to an illegal BASE jump gone wrong. Three people died in the first week of August alone. 

The park recorded 11 deaths in 2023, 12 in 2022, a staggering 23 in 2021 and 13 in 2020. The average usually sticks to somewhere between 10 to 15 deaths for the entire year, park officials said — with 2021 being an outlier. 

Horton’s death marks the 15th fatality of 2024, nearing the high end of the annual average. 

From 2014 to 2019, 103 people died in Grand Canyon National Park, according to the NPS mortality dashboard. Of those fatalities, 49 were a result of medical emergencies or issues, including 37 deaths that involved no physical activity.

Across all national parks in the US, an average of 358 deaths were reported each year during this period, putting the Grand Canyon National Park on the lower end of the spectrum. 

The National Park Service and the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s office are still investigating Horton’s death, NPS said. It is not clear how he died or when. 

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders has reportedly told the school’s band not to play the fight song after his son, Shedeur Sanders, scores a touchdown. Instead he reportedly told them to play his son’s song after scoring a touchdown.

However, that may not be true, On3’s Pete Nakos has confirmed. While Shedeur’s song does play after every touchdown he scores, a Colorado spokesperson has cleared the air on the matter:

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“This is not true,” the statement reads. “Nobody ever asked the band to refrain from playing the fight song. After a touchdown, the band plays “Glory, Glory, Colorado” and after a point after touchdown, the band plays “Fight CU” as has been standard practice for years.

“When Shedeur Sanders scores, the band will wait a moment a moment for a small snippet of Shedeur’s song to play before immediately kicking into “Glory, Glory, Colorado.” This is exactly what happened during the game against North Dakota State. This practice is not unique to Shedeur, as the band will wait a moment after a successful field goal to play Alejandro Mata‘s song before playing “Fight CU.”

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Deion Sanders shares injury update on son, Colorado DB Shilo Sanders

Deion Sanders shared an update on his son Shilo Sanders following the defensive back’s injury in Colorado’s loss to Nebraska Saturday.

Deion Sanders initially feared his son had a broken forearm. While the head coach didn’t reveal a timetable for a recovery or return, he tweeted out a positive update on Shilo.

“God is Good!,” Sanders wrote. “Can’t wait to see u back ready to go. Love ya son!”

Deion Sanders said during the game that it could perhaps be a fracture, but said after that he’s unsure the exact nature.

“I think Hardge did something with his foot on one of the punts. Shilo, I think suffered a — I don’t know the extent of the injury but I know he did something to his forearm that put him out for the rest of the game. Chidoze, I think it’s an AC joint or something like that. I think he’s going to be alright, I think he’s going to consequently play this upcoming week. I don’t know about Shilo,” Deion Sanders said.

“And Shedeur got dinged a bit on that, what’d they call it, intentional, helmet-to-helmet, targeting. He got dinged a little bit. So we just wanted to take care of him and get him out of there.” 

On3’s Nick Kosko contributed to this report.

DENVER (KKTV) – Colorado’s attorney general issued a warning Monday morning about “deepfakes.”

Attorney General Phil Weiser says the public needs to be on the lookout for election misinformation and disinformation in the form of realistic-looking images, videos, and audio created using artificial intelligence, known as “deepfakes.” You can see a public advisory that was issued at the bottom of this article.

This year, lawmakers passed and Gov. Polis signed into law HB24-1147. The new law requires anyone using AI to create communications to voters featuring images, videos, or audio of candidates for office to include a disclaimer explaining that the content is not real. Failure to provide such a disclaimer can result in fines and other penalties.

“Because images, videos, and audio created with artificial intelligence are becoming difficult to distinguish from the real thing, you should be cautious when forming opinions based on what you see and hear online, on TV, and receive in the mail,” said Weiser. “The sad reality is that even AI-powered tools designed to detect these deepfakes have difficulty catching them. I encourage voters to do your research, get your news and information from trusted sources, and be mindful that the sophistication of AI means you can’t always believe what you see and hear anymore.”

In the public advisory Weiser issued, he lays out what voters, candidates, and campaigns need to know about the new law:

• Any visual or audio communication regarding candidates for office using deepfake images, audio, video, or multimedia are prohibited unless properly disclosed.
• The required disclosures must be clear and conspicuous. A disclaimer notifying voters that the content “has been edited and depicts speech or conduct that falsely appears to be authentic or truthful” must be displayed or otherwise appear in the communication, and the law provides for exact font sizes and other requirements.
• Exceptions to the law include protections for outlets that discuss deepfake material in news stories, so long as the broadcast makes clear the content includes a deepfake. Additionally, radio and television broadcast stations are exempt if they run political advertisements that contain deepfakes that lack proper disclaimers. The law also exempts satires and parodies.
• Violations can result in legal action to prevent dissemination of the deepfake in question, and violators could be subject to financial liabilities or even criminal penalties.

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