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Avalanche Warnings in effect through the central and northern mountains KOAA Weather and last updated 2021-02-05 21:01:28-05 Heavy snow over the high country this week has lead to extremely high avalanche danger through the central and northern zones of the Rockies. KOAA Weather 48 hour ski area snow totals From Thursday into Friday, Aspen Snowmass received nearly 2 feet of snow, while Crested Butte, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and Breckenridge all came in right around a foot. This dump of heavy sn...

Courts Allow COVID-19 Claims by Insureds With Policy Endorsements for Diseases While insurers continue to win four out of five cases in early rounds, in the past month two property owners with policies that contained endorsements specifically providing coverage for diseases survived motions to dismiss their COVID-19 business interruption claims. On Thursday, the Stark County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio denied State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the o...

Policyholders With Endorsements for Diseases Survive Motions to Dismiss COVID-19 Claims While insurers continue to win four out of five cases in early rounds, in the past month two property owners with policies that contained endorsements specifically providing coverage for diseases survived motions to dismiss their COVID-19 business interruption claims. On Thursday, the Stark County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio denied State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed...

  Biden Nominations Broaden Black Women’s Leadership Roles: 1st Black Woman to Chair Council of Economic Advisers, 2nd in 40 Years to Head HUD By Charlene Crowell Charlene Crowell The selection of California Senator Kamala Harris to join and then win the nation’s Vice-Presidency gave unprecedented hope to Black women across the nation. Not only had a woman broken a glass ceiling in professional development; she was also Black and a graduate of Howard University, one of the nation’s prem...

    It’s the time of year when one reflects on the last 12 months and tries to put events in some kind of perspective.  As your Mayor, and as a Hideout resident who chooses to make my home here, I can’t help but reflect on what has been a very difficult and divisive year.    On a national scale, we have been dealing with a pandemic and a Presidential election. These are large events that create stress for all.  I certainly hope that with the election over, and a vaccine in view, we ...

720 Airport goes on for holiday shoppers Patricia Faulhaber Suburbanite correspondent GREEN  The 720 Market has become a favorite event in Stark and Summit Counties over the past several years. The founders, Lynn and Dave Shimko usually offer three or four open air markets throughout the spring and summer. But for their 2020 season, the open markets that were scheduled over the spring, summer and fall had to be canceled due to the sizes of crowds that the events have drawn in the past. The Shi...

to mitigate the climate crisis and slow species loss. But today Colorado is losing open land faster than we’re protecting it: Over a half-million acres of natural lands were lost to development since 2001. Fortunately, a coalition of conservation groups has developed a detailed roadmap to preserve 30% of Colorado’s lands (an additional 14 million acres) by 2030. Working with lawmakers, land managers, tribes, and private landowners, the “Colorado Pathways to 30-by-30” proposal utilizes ...

Developing overnight. pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson has agreed to a $20 million settlement with two ohio counties to avoid being part of a landmark opioid trial later this month. cnns alexander field joins us now with more. this makes them, what? the fourth company to reach some kind of settlement? >> it does, and it could be a sign of what is still to come, john, thats why this is so significant. look, this landmark federal case involves 2,000 city, counties and municipalities all of t...

Cuyahoga and summit counties and $5 million to reimburse legal expenses and 5.4 million to non-profit groups and on top of that johnson & johnson is saying they dont admit liability and they put out a statement saying the settlement allows the companies to have the uncertainty of the trial as it continues to seek meaningful problems in addressing the nations opioid crisis. it recognizes a public health challenge and is working collaboratively to help communities and people in need. look, john an...

Companies shift hundreds of millions of suspicious doses of opioids to just two counties in the state of ohio. hundreds of millions. cuyahoga and summit counties are at the center of a lawsuit against the makers and the distributors of painkillers. >> so by law, drug companies have to monitor and report any orders of unusual size or frequency to the dea, but the plaintiffs here say the pharmaceutical companies knew about the huge and repeated opioid pill orders to specific towns, specific pharma...