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in CanadaVail resident and former SSCV athlete Lindsey Vonn earned her 13th

downhill title and 23rd overall World Cup victory on Friday in Lake Louise, gliding through the course in snowy, windy conditions that led to slow times for many other skiers. Friday’s victory marked six wins at Lake Louise in the last five years for the two-time defending World Cup overall champion.

“It was pretty smooth - I kind of tucked the whole way down and it was exciting,” Vonn said. “I skied pretty well today and I’m really happy with the result today.”

Vonn was undeterred at her home-away-from-home in her custom-designed Spyder suit. Skiing in frigid weather, Vonn took a knee to the chin halfway through her run – where she reached speeds of 126.8 km/hour – and crossed the finish line with blood on her face.

“At the top I caught an edge and actually my knee hit my chin and that cut my tongue. I was spitting up blood, it was nasty,” Vonn said.

“It just about knocked her out, apparently, but she held on and did a great job,” Women’s Alpine Head Coach Jim Tracy said.

Vonn’s winning time was 1:26.13, more than a half second ahead of

Photographer John Fielder is scheduled to appear at BMHS Thurs-day, Dec. 10, and sign books from 6 to 9 p.m., not 5 to 9 p.m. as incor-rectly reported in yesterday’s Vail Mountaineer.

Fielder will sign copies of his new book and show photographs, along with several other published works.

Book sales at the event will benefit the Eagle Valley Land Trust.Battle Mountain High School is located at 0151 Miller Ranch Rd.

in Edwards. For more information, visit johnfielder.com.

LEFT: A John Fielder photo of Beaver Mesa Ranch near Telluride.

+22.75Investors grew more confident about

the economy but also worried that a brighter employment picture will mean rising interest rates. Stocks closed higher Friday but only after giving up much of their early gains. Indexes touched new highs for year in the morning following

[See VONN WINS, page 18]

[See THE UPDATE, pages 10-11]

With young gun Andrew Weibrecht taking 19th and both Bode Miller and Ted Ligety not finishing the race, yesterday’s super combined may not look so great on paper for the Ameri-cans. However, there were some promising moments for the U.S. team that they hope to build off of heading into today’s downhill.

“They skied technically smart,” said Men’s Alpine Head Coach Sasha Rearick. “They all made some small mistakes, but they kept their speed going.”

With the four fastest downhill runs, the day was owned by the Swiss, however. Defending Super Combined World Champ Carlo Janka won the combined after a 3rd place finish in the downhill and an 11th in the slalom. Didier Def-ago took 2nd in the combined after a winning the downhill and taking 16th in the slalom.

Croatia’s Natko Zrncic-Dim took 3rd in the combined after a strong 2nd place slalom run.

Miller led combined at slalom splitAfter a solid 7th place in the downhill, Bode

Miller was the race leader at the first slalom split.

“I’ve got to go all out,” Miller said prior to his second run. “That is usually the way I ski anyway, but there’s not enough buffer right now against any of those slalom guys to do anything but that.”

In typical “bodacious” fashion, he had every-one on the edge of their seats as they witnessed

his wild ride coming down the steeps. How-ever, he got hung up on the Red Tail flats and clipped a gate, which sent him flying headfirst like Superman across the painfully flat portion of the course.

Flat light on the hill may have contributed to Bode’s stumble, as several racers were hav-ing trouble hanging in the course through the lower combinations after the steeps.

Ligety had fastest slalom run at the splitOne of the world’s best GS skiers, Ted Ligety

favors the technical events but races downhill in the super combined. So, the expectation was that he would be able to make up some time going into the slalom.

He finished 24th in the downhill – two sec-onds back – but, with some strong slalom ski-

By Geoff MintzMountaineer Staff Writer

U.S. racer Bode Miller goes head first over Red Tail flats in yesterday’s combined sla-lom run. Miller was leading the race at the slalom split before clipping a gate and crash-ing. Screen grab from Universalsports.com.

[See BIRDS OF PREY, page 19]

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Almost three dozen positions are being cut from the county staff, along with $1 million in programs for 2010, as county officials prepare for projected tax rev-enue two years away.

The last public budget hearing is 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, in the Eagle County building, 500 Broadway, in Eagle.

The 2010 county budget is roughly $109 million. Of that, $36 million is in the general fund, the checkbook the county uses to run its day-to-day business.

The staff cuts come from layoffs, an early retirement program and leaving positions unfilled.

“We’ll talk about where we are and where need to be,” said John Lewis, Eagle County’s finance director. “We’ll be fine for 2010 and 2011, but 2012 could be a different story.”

Preparing for 2012The positioning is in preparation for what is expect-

ed to be a 20 percent decrease in property tax revenue in 2012, assuming the commissioners do not raise the county’s property tax rate.

Property tax changes roll around every two years with the state mandated reappraisal. In 2012, property taxes are expected to be off 20 percent, because it will in-clude the price declines through the current recession.

The last property valuations were done in 2008, be-fore the current recession.

The current trend reflects what taxpayers saw in 1985. That recession hammered local property values, then they increased over the next several years, Lewis said.

The commissioners boosted the county’s property tax revenue by $7 million in 2008, when they held the tax rate steady as property values increased. Higher prop-erty values meant higher property taxes for local prop-erty owners.

That should change. Budget projections show a $4.4 million general fund deficit by 2012, and a $5.3 million deficit in 2013, if they don’t cut spending.

County staffers are looking everywhere.Spending on office supplies is down $39,486 from

this time in 2008, from $149,968.85 to $110,482.17.They’re even drinking less coffee. The coffee fund

shrunk from $28,000 to $14,000, since buying was consolidated in the county’s finance office.

County budget to hit $109MCuts to prepare for 20 percent fewer tax dollars in 2012

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A Minturn public works employ-ee noticed discolored water in the Eagle River at approximately 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 1, and went upstream to locate the source, where he ob-served a pipe discharging brown liquid into the river. The employee reported his observation and this report found its way to Ray Merry of the Eagle County Public Health Department, who reported the situ-ation to a consultant working for CBS Inc., the plant owner. Frank Environmental Services, which operates the water treatment plant, was notified at 10:48 a.m., and the plant was shut down at 11.27 a.m., ending the discharge.

Downstream water users and distributors were notified, as was the Eagle River Watershed Coun-cil. Drinking water intakes for the towns of Edwards and Avon were closed as a precaution, and drinking water was not affected. The Colora-do Division of Wildlife reported no

dead or distressed fish downstream of the effluent point.

The initial investigation sug-gested a computer malfunction was responsible for the release, which turned out to be incorrect. In a Dec. 3 letter to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Frank Environmental Services con-firmed that during the night of Nov. 30, an operator had switched the plant computer to daytime mode and forgot to return it to night-time mode when she left the plant shortly before midnight. At some point during the morning of Dec. 1, sludge in the clarifier rose to a level that allowed solids in the water to overflow. The solids then flowed to another tank where some settled and the rest were discharged to the Eagle River at a rate of 335 gallons per minute.

Normally such an upset condition would trigger an automatic shut-down of the water treatment plant and an automated system would call the operator list until an opera-tor responds. The computer sys-tem is programmed to turn itself to nighttime mode at 3:15 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. However, the operator had turned the computer to daytime

mode after 10 p.m., so the system remained in daytime mode. In the daytime mode the operator call-out function does not activate, nor does the plant shut down automatically when signaled to do so.

Further investigation will be re-quired to determine exactly how much contaminated water entered the river, as well as water qual-ity impacts from the spill. Plant officials estimate a minimum of 79,395 gallons of partially treated water was released. The pH of the discharge as recorded on the plant computer system was 8.94 for sev-eral hours just before the WTP was shut down. A sample taken on Dec. 1 recorded a pH of 9.4. A pH of 7 is considered neutral. Readings above 7 are basic, while readings below 7 are acidic.

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials have not yet decided whether to take enforcement action against the plant operator. This is the second spill from the Eagle Mine Water Treatment Plant in one year. The last release occurred on Jan. 22, 2009.

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Colorado State University will join most major col-leges nationwide in forbidding concealed weapons on campus after a vote that pitted faculty asking for a ban against students demanding the right to carry guns.

The university’s Board of Governors voted 7-0 Fri-day to require gun bans on its campuses in Fort Collins and Pueblo.

Guns are already off-limits at K-12 schools in Col-orado, the University of Colorado and at virtually all campuses nationwide. But Colorado State University has followed state law that allows people to carry guns, even concealed weapons with the right permit.

Both concealed and unconcealed weapons will now be banned.

Officials said the gun ban will leave Utah campuses as the only ones where concealed weapons are allowed. Utah has a law allowing concealed weapons on state property, and a court has ruled there is no exception for colleges.

Colorado State board members acted Friday after a faculty group at the Fort Collins campus asked for a ban.

“Overwhelmingly the faculty feel our campus will be a safer place” with a concealed weapons ban, said Dan Turk, associate professor of computer information systems.

But many students opposed the ban, and the student government at the Fort Collins campus urged the board not to ban guns.

Senior Brady Allen, who lawfully carries a weapon on campus, told the board that fear of an accidental dis-charge from a concealed weapon was a silly reason to ban guns.

“You might as well ban everything that has a po-

tential risk — cars, alcohol and sports,” said Allen, a 25-year-old history student and a former Marine.

Almost all college campuses nationwide ban con-cealed weapons. But gun-rights advocates say the bans make students vulnerable to attack. The question took on greater prominence after a gunman at Virginia Tech killed 32 people and wounded 23 before killing himself in 2007.

Since the Virginia Tech massacre, proposals to repeal campus gun bans have been considered in many states, although none has been repealed.

Currently, 26 states ban concealed weapons on any school property. Twenty-three states, including Colo-rado, allow individual campuses to decide for them-selves, though CSU officials say they don’t know of any other major schools that allow concealed firearms.

In Colorado, it’s unclear how many students at either campus are permitted to carry concealed weapons. The campuses don’t keep records.

But spokespeople for both schools have said they suspect that few carry guns. Many students aren’t even eligible, because Colorado requires permit holders to be 21.

Colorado State’s unusual gun policy stems from a 2003 Colorado law that made concealed weapons leg-islation statewide, not variable by county. After that, the University of Colorado in Boulder banned con-cealed weapons.

Gun rights activists sued, arguing CU couldn’t change state law on campus.

When a judge sided with CU in April, upholding the gun ban, the faculty at Colorado State’s Fort Collins campus proposed a ban there, too.

Now it’s up both Colorado State presidents to write and enact gun bans on their campuses. The board’s vote instructs the presidents to submit a weapons plan by February.

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Wilderness advocates plan to put their proposal before congress early next year, they said Friday.

The Hidden Gems proposal would add more than 400,000 of new wil-derness in four counties.

Of that, 200,000 acres would come from 15 Eagle County areas.

Hidden Gems is a citizen-gener-ated proposal for wilderness protec-tion of areas of public land in Eagle, Summit, Gunnison and Pitkin.

It would have to be carried by a member of either the House or Sen-ate. If it survives, it would come to a vote. If not, it goes the way of thousands of other bills that do not become law.

“We plan to have a proposal ready for congressional consideration early next year,” said Allyn Harvey, who’s helping put the Hidden Gems project together.

Opposition still speaking outThe proposal has hit some serious

opposition.Commanders with the local Army

National Guard unit, HAATS, have said that it could interfere with their training and teaching helicopter pi-lots from around the world to fly at high altitude and in rugged terrain. Some of those pilots are training for the war in Afghanistan.

“We’re still meeting and talking with HAATS. We want to make sure it in no way interferes with their training,” Harvey said.

About 40,000 acres are already the site of dozens of natural gas leases. Gas leases usually run 10 years, and will remain until some-one either buys them or they expire, Harvey said.

Motorized users, snowmobile and ATV riders, have shown open disdain for the Hidden Gems plan, and have vowed to fight it when it reaches congress.

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“When is enough enough?” asked Leland.

“We’ve been working hard to meet with and address the specific concerns of stakeholders and forest users,” said Hidden Gems organizer Susie Kincade.

As the two sides of the HAATS issue are working their way through maps and definitions, they’re com-ing closer to an agreement, Kincade said.

Accommodating groupsThe maps remain a work in

progress, with constantly shifting boundaries to try to accommodate most national forest user groups.

Popular mountain bike trails like Son of Middle Creek and Sneve Gulch remain available to riders, Kincade said.

“We’ve worked hard to incorpo-rate their suggestions regarding ac-cess for everything from mountain bikes to horse trailers. It has been a good process and it’s continu-ing,” Kincade said. “People need to know that wilderness is avail-able for everyone and that emer-gency activities such as firefighting and helicopter rescues are allowed in wilderness. So are wheelchairs, hunting, fishing, climbing and most other recreational pursuits.”

To learn more about the Hidden Gems Wilderness Proposal, or to get involved, visit www.whiteriv-erwild.org, or contact Kincade at [email protected].

Hidden Gems backers want bill by early next year . . .

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A shot by Dave Reed of some of the area that is being debated over in the Hidden Gems wilderness proposal, which would add more than 400,000 of new wilderness to Colorado. Of that, 200,000 acres would come from Eagle County areas.


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Disabled Sports USA (DS/USA) announced yes-terday it will host the 22nd annual The Hartford Ski Spectacular, the nation’s largest winter sports festival hosting more than 700 participants. The event will be held at Breckenridge Ski Resort’s Beaver Run Resort Dec. 6-13, and will provide adaptive ski/snowboard and race programs, youth mentorship, alpine and Nor-dic competitions and instructor training.

The Hartford Ski Spectacular training camps will be followed by Slalom and Giant Slalom competitions on Dec.14 and 15 to prepare the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. The National Race Festival enables aspiring young racers and Wounded Warriors of all abilities to advance their skills alongside the best disabled racers and coaches in the country, including the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team. Instructors and volunteers from local disabled skiing programs throughout the nation will attend classes on the latest adaptive skiing methods. The only program of its kind, the Instructor Academy is sanctioned by the Professional Ski Instructors of America/American As-sociation of Snowboard Instructors.

More than 100 U.S. Wounded Warriors, their families and hospital staff will participate in the Learn-to-Ski, Learn-to-Race, and mentor programs. For five years, the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project, a part-nership between Disabled Sports USA and Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), a partnership between DS/USA and national partner Wounded Warrior Project, hascoordinated adaptive sporting events for Wounded Warriors across the country. Several Wounded Warriors who have participated in The Hartford Ski Spectacular in previous years are returning to serve as mentors and instructors to first-time participants.

“The Hartford Ski Spectacular has a long-standing tradition of introducing disabled athletes to skiing—from those taking to the slopes for the first time to those vying for a chance to represent the country at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games,” said DS/USA Exec-utive Director Kirk Bauer, who lost a leg from a hand grenade during an ambush while serving in the Ninth

Combat Infantry Division in Vietnam. “In this Para-lympic year, we are particularly proud to host a major Paralympic qualifying event. It is incredibly motivating for our younger racers and learn-to-ski participants to watch athletes who once participated in The Hartford Ski Spectacular advance to compete at the elite levels of the sport.”

“The Hartford Ski Spectacular’s racing camp pro-vides instruction from the nation’s best coaches and support from current members of the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team,” said Charlie Huebner, Chief of Paralym-pics, U.S. Olympic Committee. “We look forward to expanding our partnership with DS/USA to provide opportunities for kids and veterans with physical dis-abilities to pursue their dreams at future Paralympic Games.”

The event is sponsored by The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:HIG), the founding spon-sor of U.S. Paralympics. U.S. Paralympics is a major sponsor of The Hartford Ski Spectacular.

“For the 16th consecutive year, The Hartford is proud to sponsor this important program that helps people with disabilities learn new skills and build their con-fidence—whether they are Wounded Warriors learn-ing to ski, youth improving their racing skills or elite athletes,” said Ron Gendreau, executive vice president of The Hartford’s Group Benefits Division, the leading U.S. seller of group disability insurance. “This inspir-ing event is a perfect demonstration of The Hartford’s Ability Philosophy in action.”

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A little fundraising and a lot of faith went a long way last month for dwellers of the impoverished area of Freedom Park, South Africa.

A team of nine members from the Vail Valley Calvary Chapel raised $3,000 locally to visit the squatter camp outside of Johannesburg, where they helped operate an after-school program for orphans. They just got back from the African adventure this week.

“It was definitely different than I expected, I didn’t except the people to be living the way they did,” said Amanda Orht, 25, of Avon, a Calvary member who was part of the South Africa team. “They lived in tin houses with dirt floors, some had one bed for four people in one room, some were able to have a kettle to hot for water, but they had to carry water from a spigot outside of town.”

The team also visited a preschool with 40 children crammed into a eight-by-10 ten shack, where the school teacher taught material from some torn up pieces of pa-per from the 1990’s, Ohrt said.

Calvary team members partnered with Tentmaker Ministries, a non-profit based in Breckenridge provid-ing support to Freedom Park through volunteer work and fundraising.

The team fed, taught, prayed and played games with the village children, some of whom were orphaned by

the AIDS virus, said Bill Weibel, executive director of Tentmaker.

“Since 2004, we’ve worked with orphans, vulnerable children and the foster parents that care for them,” Wei-bel said. “We feed children that have a problem with food security and run an after school program to assist them with learning and bible study, we also provide as-sistance in regard to education with school uniforms and amenities, at times we sponsor transportation and school fees.”

Tentmaker fundraising also provides medical assis-tance to the area.

“The HIV virus problem is huge there, and coupled with poverty, it makes it very difficult to live anything close to what we consider to be a normal life,” said Weibel.

Calvary Chapel Vail Valley joined Tentmaker’s ef-fort after Mission Pastor Nate Morris participated last year.

“Our goal is to encourage the people there doing the work already and to help them implement some new programs,” said Morris. “Most of the children we’re working with don’t have any family members … we’re attempting to come alongside some of these kids and give them some hope for the future.”

Calvary is also fundraising to send a team to the Phil-ippines to assist an orphanage that rescues women from the human trafficking trade.

Local Calvary Chapel team returns from South AfricaLocals helped operate an after school program for orphans

Aimee Pinnell, Jimmy Humphreys, Michelle Gehr, Audra Saims McDowell, Nate Morris, Jen Senger Morris, Mindy Baswell, Martha Kimball, Asher Humphreys, Langston McDowell in front of the village of Freedom Park in South Africa. Teams from Breckenridge Tentmaker Ministries and Calvary Chapel Vail Valley vis-ited the dwelling last month to provide food and education assistance.

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Not so for Skis Rossignol SA, says new CEO Bruno Cercley, who hopes the glass-fronted new building will motivate staff as the 100-year old company tries to turn the page on recession by focusing on core ski brands.

Cercley took over last year, when he says Rossignol was on the point on bankruptcy.

Slashing payrolls and cutting in half the number of products available under the Rossignol, Dynastar, Lange and Look brands, is returning the company to profitability, he told the Associated Press.

“We still have a lot to do. But we don’t have the enormous black cloud over our heads saying ‘will we survive until tomorrow?’ That was the situation of Ros-signol a year ago ... when the company was almost in bankruptcy.”

The company is named after Abel Rossignol, a wood craftsman, who made his first skis in 1907 then set up a skis and sleds division in his wood turnery in Voiron, near Grenoble.

In recent years the skiing business has been hit by a triple whammy of recession, unpredictable weather and a change in consumer habits.

The company has struggled with seasonal factors — one of the warmest winters on record in 2005-2006 hit Rossignol hard — and more permanent changes. In seven years, the number of skis sold globally has halved as skiers favor renting, Cercley said.

Key to Cercley’s turnaround plan has been greater at-tention to the company’s main ski business, contracting out textile and clothing.

His original turnaround plan involved 450 job cuts from a total work force of 1,500. In the end, Cercley cut 320 jobs after talks with the unions and local authori-ties saved 130 positions.

“We had to cut off an arm to continue to live,” he said.

Now, as the company gears up for the Ski World Cup in Val d’Isere, France, this month, followed by the Olympic Games in Vancouver in February, Cercley says he expects the 2009 fiscal year to show the com-pany “is saved.”

Last fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2009, the com-pany reported a negative EBITDA — or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — of €42 million ($63 million) on revenue of €250 million.

This fiscal year, Cercley hopes for a positive EBIT-DA — a measure of the company’s fundamental earn-ings potential — of €2 million to €5 million, exclud-ing restructuring costs.

Cercley, who is on his second stint as Rossignol CEO, inherited the plans for the €25 million headquarters near Grenoble, in the heart of the French Alps, from the French ski maker’s former owner, Quiksilver.

It sold out to Chartreuse & Mont Blanc — a com-pany formed by Australian investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd. and Jarden Corp. of the U.S. — a year ago, when the ski maker’s future pointed downhill.

“If we were deciding the priorities today it’s probably not the first decision we would take,” Cercley said, of the decision to build the new headquarters.

But the building was almost finished, and there was no going back.

“It would have been devastating to go back on the project, because there was a real expectation from the employees, who have faced so many difficulties in the last years,” he said.

This year, Cercley, who is only on his second star in the three-point French ski school system, hopes to have more time to ski — when he took over as CEO in 2008, he strapped on his skis only four times.

“I don’t think I will get my third star this year, but I hope to have more time on the slopes,” he said.

This undated photo provided by Skis Rossignol SA, yesterday shows the new Rossignol headquarters in St Jean de Moirans, French Alps. Execs hope the glass-fronted new building will motivate staff as the 100-year old company tries to turn the page of re-cession by focusing on core ski brands, said new CEO Bruno Cercley.

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Vail Chamber partners with hometrax.com

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Based in Edwards, Colorado this free internet based social network has practical applications centered on the home and community.

This user-driven website combines the best of social networking with a home’s “history”. Anchored by a user-created home profile, the website incorporates efficient tools for tracking inventory for property in-surance purposes, recording maintenance and repairs, promoting home sales and simplifying year-end tax ac-counting for homeowners, property managers, buyers and renters.

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Hometrax.com also able to link users with a local Chamber of Commerce to receive information about what is taking place in and around the local community. “The Vail Chamber & Business Association is please to be part of hometrax.com initial launch in Eagle County and the valuable information sharing it will provide the community” says Richard tenBraak, Executive Direc-tor of the Vail Chamber & Business Association.

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To learn more about this free service, hometrax.com will be doing an unveiling at Sweet Basil restaurant in Vail Village Tuesday December 8, 2009 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. Reception and presentation is open to the public. Please RSVP to reserve a spot by contacting the Vail Chamber & Business Association at (970) 477-0075.

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news that job cuts fell sharply in November, but that report also brought expectations that the Federal Re-serve could hike rates or remove other supports from the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 22.75, or 0.2 percent, to 10,388.90. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 6.06, or 0.6 percent, to 1,105.98. The Nasdaq composite index rose 21.21, or 1 percent, to 2,194.35. For the week: The Dow is up 78.98, or 0.8 percent. The Nasdaq is up 617.32, or 39.1 percent.

Woman gives birth on plane over Colorado

A woman gave birth to a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago that had to be diverted to Denver International Airport.

Spokesman Paul Flaningan of Dallas-based South-west says Flight 441 was about 100 miles north of Denver Friday when the unidentified woman went into labor. Flaningan says the captain decided to divert to Denver but she started to deliver the baby en route.

A doctor and two nurses on board helped deliver the baby at the back of the plane with the help of flight at-tendants and an in-flight medical radio service.

The mother and baby were met at the gate by an am-bulance and taken to the Medical Center of Aurora, where a spokeswoman says they’re doing fine.

After stopping in Denver, the flight continued on to Salt Lake City and then Boise as scheduled.

Colorado fails child welfare safety review

Colorado’s child welfare system is out of compliance with federal regulations on child safety and well-being, according to a review released Friday by the U.S. De-partment of Health and Human Services.

The review found Colorado did not meet standards for abuse in home care and placement stability. The state is also not in compliance with standards measur-ing child safety and well being.

The investigation found that training of social work-ers was inadequate and communications problems oc-cur between county social workers and the state human services department.

Under the current system, social services are admin-istered by counties and supervised by the state.

The report recommended establishing a centralized call system for reporting suspected abuse and neglect, the creation of a child advocate office, requiring coun-ties to provide feedback to mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect, and stricter timeframes for provid-ing services to families that move to different jurisdic-tions.

Student found guilty in college roommate murderAmerican college student Amanda Knox was found

guilty of murdering her British roommate and sen-tenced to 26 years in prison early Saturday after a year-long trial that gripped Italy and drew intense media at-tention.

Her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was also convicted and sentenced to 25 years. They were also found guilty of sexual assault in the 2007 murder of

Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Eng-land.

Kercher’s body was found in a pool of blood with her throat slit on Nov. 2, 2007, in the bedroom of the house she shared with Knox while the two were studying in the medieval town of Perugia in Italy’s central Umbria region.

The prosecution said a 6 1/2 inch knife authorities found at Sollecito’s house had Kercher’s DNA on the blade and Knox’s on the handle. Defense lawyers said the knife was too big to match Kercher’s wounds and the amount of DNA collected was too small to deter-mine with certainty whose it was.

Knox gave contradictory versions of the night of the slaying, saying at one point she was home and had to cover her ears to block out Kercher’s screams and ac-cusing a Congolese man of the killing. Knox later con-tended that police pressure led her to initially accuse an innocent man.

Nightclub blast kills 76An explosion apparently caused by pyrotechnics tore

through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing more than 100 people, according to emergency officials quoted by state television.

In the chaotic aftermath of the blast and subsequent fire, casualty figures differed. State television news channel Vesti cited the Investigative Committee, Rus-sia’s top investigative body, as saying the death toll was higher than 100. Reports citing other officials ranged from 86 to more than 90.

Perm, a city of about 1 million people, is about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains.

Enforcement of fire safety standards in Russia is no-toriously lax and in recent years there have been sev-eral catastrophic blazes at drug-treatment facilities and apartment buildings.

Hot, muggy powderHouston had its earliest snowfall on record Friday,

with several inches accumulating in counties southwest of the city.

The previous record for early snow in Houston was Dec. 10 in 1944 and again last year, said Charles Ro-eseler, a meteorologist with the National Weather Ser-vice. Snow is rare in the nation’s fourth largest city. In the past 15 years, it has snowed four times, including Friday. Accumulations of 3 to 4 inches of snow were reported in counties southwest of Houston. The city got a half inch or less of snow, and its suburbs reported 1 to 2 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Many government offices and businesses around Houston shut down early Friday, said Francisco San-chez, a spokesman for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Houston Mayor Bill White directed city departments to send nonessential employees home Friday after-noon.

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It’s not clear how long this splendid captivity will last—the threat of extradition to the United States and a possible prison term there still hang over the 76-year-old director.

But surely there are worse fates than being stuck in the tony resort of Gstaad, gazing up at the snow-cov-ered Swiss Alps with your wife and two children by your side—especially after two months in a Swiss jail.

Polanski cannot leave the three-story house and its garden while Swiss authorities decide whether to send him to Los Angeles to face sentencing in a 32-year-old sex case.

In Gstaad, Polanski can organize his days as he likes, working on his films and phoning and e-mailing when-ever he wants.

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Warmergate to be investigated

The United Nations will conduct its own investiga-tion into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the Univer-sity of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official said in comments broadcast Friday.

E-mails stolen from the climate unit at the Univer-sity of East Anglia appeared to show some of world’s leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others’ work. Those who deny the influence of man-made climate change have seized on the correspondence to argue that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence about global warming.

In an interview with the BBC, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, said the issue raised by the e-mails was seri-ous and said “we will look into it in detail,”

“We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it,” he said. “We certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet.”

Williams may take Monroe lead

Actress Michelle Williams may play the lead role of Marilyn Monroe in an upcoming film, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

William’s, once married to Heath Ledger, was cho-sen for the lead in upcoming film “My Week With Marilyn,” above other contenders Scarlett Johansson and Amy Adams, who are both said to have been con-

sidered for the part.The Daily Mail reports director Simon Curtis and

producer David Parfitt picked Williams to play Mon-roe, but she hasn’t agreed yet.

“My Week With Marilyn,” will depict Monroe’s time filming 1957 movie “The Prince and The Showgirl” with Laurence Olivier, based on a diary kept by the film’s assistant director Colin Clarke.

“My Week With Marilyn” is due to begin shooting in London in June, 2010.

Ramboesque painting sold for $50,000

Action star Sylvester Stallone has sold two paintings on display in Miami, the San Francisco Chronicle re-ports.

The 63-year-old star of Rambo and the Rocky series has been a part-time painter for 30 years.

One painting caught the eye of Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn while on display in Miami, Florida, who handed over $40,000 for the painting on Wednesday.

A self-portrait of Stallone from the 1970s was also snapped up by an art gallery boss for $50,000.

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ATHLETIC STUFF

The alleged mistress of Tiger Woods pulled a last sec-ond ditch on a potentially explosive news conference, a move out of character for a Gloria Allred client.

The news conference in Los Angeles for Rachel Uchitel, the woman who denied a tabloid report about an affair with Woods, was canceled about an hour be-fore it was to begin Thursday.

High-profile attorney Gloria Allred, who was to make a statement about Uchitel’s relationship with golf’s No. 1 player, said it was called off because of “unforeseen circumstances.” Allred said she would have no further comment.

However, Allred’s daughter, Lisa Bloom, said the

only conclusion is that her mother struck a deal with the Woods camp. Bloom, an attorney who worked with her mother for nine years and now is as a legal analyst for CBS, said Friday on “The Early Show” that she has never known Allred to cancel a news conference.

Bloom said that can only mean a confidential settle-ment was struck, which she estimated at being worth “at least a million dollars.”

“I know exactly how she operates,” Bloom said.For the first time since last Friday, when Woods ran

his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home, there were no news conferences involving police nor any statements from Woods on his Web site.

Tiger slayer Y.E. Yang managed to play good golf while coping with a big headache Friday, and his 7-under 65 gave him a two-shot lead going into the weekend at Chevron World Challenge.

Strangely enough, the PGA champion recalls hav-ing a headache at a tournament about the same time last year.

His location speaks to what kind of year it has been.

A year ago, Yang was grinding in the California desert during the final stage of Q-school, a six-round tournament that determined whether he would have a PGA Tour card. Since then, he won his first U.S. title at the Honda Classic, then made history as the first Asian to win a men’s major, and the first player to win a major when Tiger Woods had the lead going into the final round.

Yang, who was at 9-under 135, is chasing the $1.35 million winner’s check while trying to hold off a group that includes Padraig Harrington (68), Ian Poulter (69) and Kenny Perry (65), who were two shots behind.

Yang leads Chevron World Challenge

Y.E. Yang of South Korea hits his approach shot to the 18th green in the second round of the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament at Sherwood Coun-try Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Friday. Yang fin-ished the day with a two-stroke lead at 9-under-par. AP Photo.


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Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s race team is in negotiations to bring Danica Patrick to NASCAR, but Patrick said he has not participated in the talks and isn’t certain she will drive for his Nationwide Series team.

JR Motorsports is co-owned by Earnhardt and Rick Hendrick, and both said the Patrick talks are being handled by Earnhardt’s sister, Kelley. Earn-hardt announced Thursday that Kelley Earnhardt and his cousin, Tony Eury Jr., have been given ownership stakes in the organization.

Kelley Earnhardt has been the driving force in the team’s bid to bring Patrick to a part-time NA-SCAR ride.

“It’s still sort of in the negotiation stages,” he said. “Her and my sister are, I guess, managing that entirely. I have not been in any way, shape, or form involved.”

Asked what the odds are of Patrick signing a deal, Earnhardt didn’t pick a number.

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ATHLETIC STUFF

Manny PacquiaoFloyd Mayweather Jr. will likely lock horns with on March 13 after agreeing to a proposal from promoter Bob Arum on Friday.

Arum presented “what he thought was the best proposal he can bring” during a two-hour breakfast meeting with Pacquiao in Manila, said Michael Koncz, an adviser of the Philippine boxing idol.

“Manny has some additional require-ments, requests, which Arum didn’t think was a problem,” Koncz said. “The requests of Manny were so realistic that Arum doesn’t feel it’s a problem and it’s pretty much a done deal.”

He said the contract still needs “fine tun-ing,” declining to elaborate.

“We all believe that it will be done,” he said.

In an interview with GMA television, Pacquiao said, “March 13 is OK.”

“The difference between Floyd and oth-ers I have fought is that Floyd makes a lot of trash talk that should not be imitated by young people,” he said.

Arum could not be reached for com-ment.

Koncz, who is in charge of Pacquiao’s boxing promotion company in Nevada, said Pacquiao is “very comfortable” with the date.

Mayweather, Pacquiao to fight in March

Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines holds the championship belt at the finish of his WBO welterweight boxing title fight against Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico on Nov. 14, 2009. Pac-quiao will likely face Floyd Mayweather Jr. on March 13, 2010. AP Photo.


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second-place Canadian Emily Brydon in 1:26.65.“The weather was so bad today, and we had to move

the start down,” Tracy said. “We knew we had to keep everybody focused and in their game plans. Lindsey did a great job seeing the course.”

Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) finished 10th for the U.S., .65 seconds off Vonn’s blistering pace, while 21-year-old Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, CO) tucked home an 18th-place result in just her second ca-reer World Cup downhill race.

According to Tracy, Mancuso’s hard skiing was ex-actly what she needed to place well on Friday.

“That’s a huge deal. From where she started, we thought she had no chance, because it had started snowing again,” Tracy said. “She made a couple little mistakes up at the top, but she got it back together, and she was flying at the bottom.”

For McKennis, who normally fights the pre-race nerves, the key to her success was to keep it calm.

“I was really relaxed and calm. I didn’t really feel nervous at all, which is kind of weird. I’m usually ner-vous. I just wanted to have fun and ski well and I think that’s what I did,” McKennis said. “I started out on the top and did alright on the top flat. I had some small mistakes here and there but overall I think I kept my speed going the whole way down and that’s what kept me in there.”

Canada’s Britt Janyk was the early leader with a 1:27.22 as an overnight storm put its finishing touches on the course.

Brydon supplanted her compatriot when the 29-year-old carved a strong run in front of home fans, putting up a time that survived a charge by 2009 World Cup runner-up and eventual third-place finisher Maria Ri-esch, of Germany.

American Stacey Cook (Mammoth, CA) took 23rd, 2.20 seconds back, and Chelsea Marshall (Pittsville, VT) placed in the points at 1:28.41, finishing 26th.

The women compete again Saturday in another World Cup downhill race in Lake Louise.

“I feel really good and I’m skiing with a lot confi-dence,” Vonn said “The weather is not supposed to be great for the next couple of days, but I know I’ve had bad weather before like today. Hopefully tomorrow I’m going to try to have a more solid clean run.”

The women race a second downhill today; fans can watch it live at 1:30 p.m. our time on www.universal-sports.com.

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ers ahead of him, Ligety was not fully confident that he could erase the full deficit going into the slalom.

But he sure tried. Ligety had the fastest run going into

the slalom split, but like teammate Bode Miller, had some trouble through the combinations on Red Tail flats.

Coach Rearick said Ligety had bad luck.

“Ted was flying,” he said. “I mean that was some impressive slalom skiing, a little unlucky with the straddle over the roll. In the past, that’s a place where he has given up way to much speed. He wanted to be aggressive there.”

Ligety agreed his slalom is going well.

“So that’s what’s more annoying, to be fast then blow out,” Ligety said. “I’m glad I’m skiing fast, it’s just annoying not to make the finish. In order to finish fast in slalom you have to go aggressive, that’s just the approach I was taking, and sometimes it doesn’t work. I mean there’s no margin for error in slalom.”

Weibrecht takes 5th in downhill runIn the downhill, Andrew Weibrecht,

23, was the fastest racer not from Swit-zerland, finishing 5th – a result that the U.S. Ski Team hopes will serve as a har-binger for today’s downhill.

Coach Rearick was excited to see Weibrecht excel in the downhill portion of the race and has high hopes for him today.

“I expect him to go out there and stick

to the game plan. He made a great turn today over the Basketball turn, which is the turn he’s soared over the last couple times down the track. That kind of ex-ecution from top to bottom is what we are going to try to get out of Weibrecht,” Rearick said.

Rearick also said after the race that, be-cause slalom is definitely not Weibrecht’s specialty, he was happy that the young gun was able to work off a good down-hill run, get to the finish and score some points.

“I thought it was good slalom. It’s nothing to be desired but it’s all I could do with the amount of training I’ve had,” Weibrecht said. “I’m really happy with my downhill run and I’ll definitely take that confidence into tomorrow and try to throw it down.”

With a 47th start position in today’s downhill, Weibrecht hopes to have a come-from-behind performance simi-lar to Lake Louise last week, where he started 62nd and finished 12th.

He kicks out with fellow Americans Bode Miller, Erik Fisher, Marco Sulli-van, Steve Nyman, Scott Macartney and Jeremy Transue.

Today’s Downhill is the marquee event for the Birds of Prey. Racing begins at 11 a.m.

Spectators can catch a Beaver Creek shuttle up to the event, or intermediate ski in/ski out access is also available via the Red Tail run. If you’re not able to make it out there, you can also watch the races on www.universalsports.com.

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Ted Ligety straddles a gate on Red Tail flats after skiing the first half of the combined slalom run faster than any other racer. He has the day off today, but will be back Sunday for the GS, his specialty. Avery Cunliffe photo.

Andrew Weibrecht doesn’t consider himself a slalom skier, but he made it to the finish and scored some World Cup points after a strong 5th place finish in the downhill run. He’s pictured here in yesterday’s slalom. Avery Cunliffe photo.

Bode Miller reacts after a tough spill over Red Tail flats in yesterday’s com-bined slalom run. Miller led the race at the slalom split but got hung up and clipped a gate. Avery Cunliffe photo.

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