LAKE COUNTY - Two skiers missing since Friday afternoon were found near Turquoise Lake in Lake County Saturday around 1 p.m. Both were in good condition, according to a press release from the Colorado National Guard. The skiers were located with the assistance of helicopters from the National Guard's High Altitude Army Aviation Training site, based in Gypsum.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas transportation officials have closed Interstate 70 from Burlington to the Colorado border due to adverse weather.

Kansas Department of Transportation 511 assistant coordinator Chris Hess says I-70 is closed from Burlington to Limon, Colo. He says the alert will probably remain in place for 24 hours.

If your stated intention in life is to be the most iconoclastic individual on the block and you think that oddball automobiles such as the Kia Soul, the Scion xB and the Mini Cooper are just a bit too ordinary, we've found the solution.
Enter the incredibly bizarre Nissan Cube (they opt for a lower-case spelling, but we'll temporarily ignore that), the most directly and uncompromisingly Japanese-styled automobile to land on US shores in a long, long time.
If you haven't seen it yet, Cube is that funny little car that looks half like a stackable washing machine, and half like a character from some late-night anime cartoon. Outfitted in the "bitter chocolate" color as my tester was, it looks like and is about the same size as the old Brown Derby Restaurant sign in Idaho Springs. Standing next to it, the Cube's roof came up to my chin; the entire automobile is only 157 inches.
With oddly, almost porthole-shaped, oversized rounded windows, tiny 15-inch wheels and a glossy, s

John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee are national hosts of "The Takeaway," which launches Jan. 4 in Colorado.
Here's the takeaway: Change is in the air for public radio in the mornings and for station KUVO. Colorado is about to get a hipper morning radio show to counter the institution that is NPR's "Morning Edition."
Not that there is anything wrong with the expertly produced and comfortably familiar "Morning Edition," which airs on in Summit County on KUNC (88.3 FM). The much-honored program has been a comforting source of news and information for 30 years. (Generations of regulars know the voice of Carl Kasell who retired Dec. 23.)
But there's a battle brewing for the next generation of morning public radio listeners.
"The Takeaway," a more conversational show that's been airing in other markets for a year, will launch Jan. 4 from 5 to 8 a.m. weekdays on Denver's KUVO - 89.7 FM in Summit County.

Skiers and snowboarders share more than a love for snow - they also have many pet peeves about one another. With a little knowledge about how your one- or two-planked slope companions use the hill, though, you can learn to play nice.

The blind side
"(My pet peeve is) people standing and stopping in blind spots," said snowboarder Paul Killino, of Edwards.
While out-of-state visitors clumped in groups are often offenders, locals can be just as guilty. The other day, we spotted a ski instructor, who stopped his group of six right below a lip, on an intermediate run. Unless riders significantly slowed down at the top of the lip, they couldn't see the group until they went over the (little) edge.
Stopping where people can see you is especially important when it comes to snowboarders, who usually sit down, making them slower to move than someone who is simply standing in a blind spot, said Maryann Gaug, a Summit County resident and former Nordic ski instructo

SNOWMASS VILLAGE - The Aspen Skiing Co. continues to LEED the way in green-building.
The U.S. Green Building Council recently awarded platinum certification, the highest of four levels in the LEED program, for an employee housing project called the Holiday House. A mountain-top restaurant called Sam's Smokehouse, located at the Snowmass ski area, was given gold, the third highest of four levels.
Aspen Skiing has a long history with LEED buildings. In 1999, it developed one of the first LEED-certified buildings in the world. A golf clubhouse in 2003 received the silver-level certification, the second highest level.
Auden Schendler, the company's director of community and environmental responsibility, has been a stern critic of the LEED certification process, calling the process cumbersome with too little attention to energy efficiency. The process has improved somewhat, he says, with the LEED standards now putting a greater emphasis on energy savings.
Still, Aspen

SUMMIT COUNTY - Weekend hours at the Summit County Libraries are being restored. The Main Branch Library in Frisco will now be open on Sundays from 1-5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The South Branch Library in Breckenridge will be open on Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. Hours of operation at the libraries had been reduced in 2009 due to budget cuts.

According to community dinner spokeswoman Deb Hage, the Dec. 22 weekly free meal at the Elks Lodge in Silverthorne served 211 people. Of that 47 were children.
Food Hedz Global Cafe, located next door to Wells Fargo in Frisco, delivered a "delicious and hearty" beef stew, Hage said.
"Other good news involves our finances," Hage said in an e-mail. "We have been given two donations from private individuals totaling $750, the Town of Silverthorne has granted us $1,500 and the Summit Foundation has granted us $4,000. We are grateful for their generosity!"
The community dinner relies on donations to feed needy locals in Summit County.

SUMMIT COUNTY - Summit County Public Health recently announced a voluntary recall of its H1N1 nasal spray vaccine because the spray's potency had decreased below the recommended limit or it was "at risk of falling below that limit within the upcoming week."
"There's no safety issues," said Michelle Wilson, the community nursing manager for Summit County Public Health. She also said there's no need to revaccinate people who've already had a nasal spray vaccine this season. At the time the vaccine was administered within Summit County, the vaccine strength was fine.
"It wasn't as stable as they would like it to be," she said, noting that people who got it immediately got the necessary potency needed for a vaccine. "It was fine when we got it, but potency didn't hold."
Summit County Public Health currently has seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccine available, and Wilson said vaccines are also available at

WASHINGTON - A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaida's instructions, tried to blow up the plane Friday as it was landing in Detroit, law enforcement and national security officials said.
Passengers subdued the man and may have prevented him from detonating the explosives, the officials said.
"We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," a White House official said.
Federal officials imposed stricter screening measures after the incident.
Rep. Peter King of New York, the ranking Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit. There were 278 passengers aboard the Airbus 330.
There was nothing out of the ordinary until the flight was on final approach to Detroit, said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. That is when the pilot declared an em