Rick Carroll

The locally owned and operated Jour de Fete in Aspen, which has operated during five decades serving French-inspired food, is closing at the end of January.

The high-profile Alexander brothers, who are in federal custody on sexual assault charges, are alleged to have conspired to victimize a 17-year-old female by drugging her at an Aspen bar and one of them raping her at a downtown hotel.

Background checks of three of the four suspects in the November burglary of a downtown luxury-watch boutique are not reliable because they are based on false identities, a prosecutor said in court on Monday.

The stage is set for an April jury trial after a former Aspen High School assistant basketball coach pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of providing alcohol to minors, driving while under the influence and evading authorities.

There was no preliminary hearing for one of the alleged chief orchestrators of the burglary of Avi & Co. in downtown Aspen on Wednesday, when the co-defendant’s lawyer said they are working on a plea deal with the prosecution.

Untangling the web of lawsuits over the February 2022 gas-explosion at a home-construction site in unincorporated Pitkin County will fall to the chief judge of the 9th Judicial District.

Three of the four co-defendants in the burglary of a downtown luxury store have been in the custody of Pitkin County Jail since they were arrested in the middle of November.

A bookkeeper who last fall accused a property manager of cooking the books at Burlingame Ranch I Condominiums has confessed to embezzling $183,000 from the employee-housing development’s homeowners association.

Aspen Fire Department Captain Craig Melville, standing on South 2nd Street, helps clean up the mess spawned by a main break on Thursday morning.