Elyssa McCreight, 32, has been identified as the victim of a fatal June 5 rafting accident on an Eagle County portion of the upper Colorado River known as Boneyard Rapids. She’s the second person to die rafting in Colorado this season, following a death on April 30, and one of two people killed on a state waterway over a two-day period. Bryan Reim was swept away at the Potholes, a popular western Colorado recreation site, on June 3.

Bryan Reim, 35, reportedly drowned on Saturday, June 3, a day after sharing a post about high water on Facebook. He’s one of two people to die in a two-day period on a Colorado waterway. The other death involved a tragic rafting accident, as did the season’s first drowning back on April 30.

A spectacular truck crash in Bailey that ended with the rig landing in the Platte River took place moments ago in an area near the scene of an accident involving another semi that destroyed a popular winery last year.

Longtime Denver Post sportswriter Terry Frei, who was fired following a tweet in which he wrote that he was “very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend,” apologizes for the message and expresses his hope that his supervisors at the paper might someday be open to his return. He also expresses frustration over being branded as a racist for his observation, which was inspired by his emotional connection to World War II veterans such as his late father, whose grave he visited shortly after pressing “send.”

Taylor Swift is expected to appear in Denver on or around August 7, but not for a concert. Instead, she will likely be testifying in a lawsuit filed against her by David Mueller, a former Denver DJ who accuses her of getting him fired from radio station KYGO by falsely claiming that he’d grabbed her butt during a meet-and-greet photo session prior to a June 2013 concert at the Pepsi Center. Swift has countersued, maintaining that Mueller “reached up under my skirt and grabbed my ass right when I was having to pose for a photo.”

After last month’s abrupt cancellation of the morning show starring Larry Ulibarri and Kathie J, KS 107.5 has replaced the audience favorites with the crew of Tony V, Cedes and DJ Chonz. It’s a surprising team-up, given that both Cedes and Chonz left the station last year.

Sportswriter Terry Frei’s departure from the Denver Post following a tweet in which he announced that he was “very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend” made for a notably ugly exit. But it’s hardly unprecedented. Indeed, Westword has chronicled a number of bizarre firings or resignations at the paper over the years, involving plagiarism charges, gambling allegations and a previous Twitter scandal spurred by an uncomfortable come-on to a female hockey fan.

The conclusion of an amended autopsy report for John Patrick Walter, who died in Fremont County jail on April 20, 2014, has been changed from “undetermined” to acute withdrawal from benzodiazepine, a prescribed medication that was withheld from him by staff during his incarceration. The findings echo claims made in a lawsuit filed about Walter’s death, and Erik Heipt, an attorney for his family, feels the results would have been known years ago if not for obstruction by Fremont County officials.