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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
Aspen resident Mark Tye has a front yard so noticeable that tourists often ask to have their pictures taken amid the sculptures, pinwheels, prayer flags, peace signs, old skis, barroom relics, a totem pole and even an old gondola bucket.
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1 week ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A combination of roughly 200 airline passengers and employees were evacuated from the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport on Sunday after security officials detected a “suspicious item of note” before the commercial terminal reopened at 2 p.m. after a 2½-hour closure. Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters were dispatched to the airport for a security incident that “was determined to be a false positive in a checked bag,” according to a press release from Pitkin County, which oversees airport operations.
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2 weeks ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A majority of the Snowmass Village Mall is set to change ownership for a purchase price of $28 million, according to a public document. The sale would mark another significant ownership change in the commercial-property landscape of Snowmass Village.
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2 weeks ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A former Aspen resident faces a return to state prison after she pleaded guilty last week to theft charges connected with stealing money from her employer. Lynda Mae Fratis entered guilty pleas to two class 4 felony counts, theft and identity theft, in Boulder County District Court. Prosecutors initially filed one charge of felony theft and 62 counts of identity theft against her Oct. 25.
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2 weeks ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A property deal worth almost $144 million that closed last week includes the largest hotel in Snowmass Village, an additional lodge and a conference center. A single transaction documented April 2 in the Pitkin County Clerk & Recorder’s Office shows Elevate Snowmass LLC acquired the property that includes the 254-guestroom Viewline Resort Snowmass, the 151-room Wildwood Snowmass Lodge and the Snowmass Conference Center. The recorded sale price was $143,997,116 for the entire complex.
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2 weeks ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A Red Mountain mansion eyed for redevelopment by RH recently changed ownership for $26 million in a transaction the company’s top executive cited in an earnings call before saying “oh, shit” as President Donald Trump was announcing his tariff actions on Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
A judge ruled there is sufficient probable cause to prosecute a man on felony charges in connection with allegations of kidnapping and sexual assault of a young woman, but noted the testimony she heard at a preliminary hearing Thursday was based chiefly on hearsay the court allowed under relaxed evidence standards.
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3 weeks ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
Alleged threats of deportation and reputational harm can equate to forced labor under state and national human trafficking laws, a federal judge ruled Monday in a former exchange intern’s proposed class-action lawsuit against a luxury resort hotel in Aspen. U.S. District Judge Regina Rodriguez’ written ruling allowed for three of the six claims to proceed in Mexican national Daniel Esteban Camas López’ lawsuit against Marriott International Inc.
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1 month ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
Video footage of a bar patron striking a man twice in the face was not enough evidence to overcome conflicting and unreliable witness accounts driving the 9th Judicial District Attorney’s Office’s recent decision to walk back a misdemeanor assault charge against a Florida visitor. The People vs. Michael Internoscia, scheduled for a jury trial April 7-10 in Pitkin County Court, was dismissed earlier this month by Judge Ashley Andrews after the prosecution filed a motion to drop the case.
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1 month ago | 
aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll
The sentencing hearing for an Aspen businessman, if conducted as scheduled in May, will come nearly two years after a state grand jury indicted him on charges related to financial crimes. It will be on defendant Howard Rann Bradley, 73, to bring a lawyer and $9,000 to pay his victims at a sentencing hearing rescheduled for May 5 by Pitkin County District Court Judge Laura Makar during a conference call Monday. And if he doesn’t have counsel, the hearing will proceed as scheduled, Makar suggested.
