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A Mountain Range High School administrator who allegedly sent sexually explicit photos to a student was charged with two counts of child sex assault and one count of internet sexual exploitation of a child in Adams County District Court on Thursday. Tate Drane, 27, is charged with three felonies, including sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a news release. Drane was arrested by Westminster police Monday after multiple Safe2Tell reports that he sent “inappropriate photos to an underage student.” Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Mountain Range High School dean sent more than a dozen inappropriate pictures to underage student on Snapchat, police say Crime and Public Safety | These are Colorado’s top-performing schools on 2024 CMAS tests Investigators found Drane sent a freshman girl 13 photos of his face, body and genitals with lewd captions and asked the girl to send back nude photographs, according to an arrest affidavit. Drane had previously assaulted the girl when she was in middle school, but she did not report the assault, police said. Drane is on administrative leave until further notice, Adams 12 Five Star Schools officials said this week. His next court date has not been set. Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.

Stick here for live updates and analysis as Denver take on the Saints at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Live updates Pre-game updates Reunion (4:14 p.m.): A lot of handshakes and hugs on field level. There are 9 Broncos players who were on Saints. And 13 Broncos staffers. And some former Broncos in New Orleans with coaches Klint Kubiak, the OC, and senior assistant Rick Dennison.

The Mountain West on Thursday announced its preseason men’s basketball all-conference teams and the league’s predicted order of finish. Colorado State fifth-year guard Nique Clifford was one of 10 players voted to the all-conference team. Clifford, who starred at The Vanguard School in Colorado Springs and CU, averaged 12.2 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists for the Rams in 36 starts last season. CSU was voted to finish seventh out of the conference’s 11 teams this season, which would land them in the same spot they had last season.

Colorado officials ordered the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine to cease and desist operations on Wednesday about a week after a tour guide was killed and 23 people trapped underground when an elevator malfunctioned. The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety sent a cease and desist letter dated Wednesday to Dennis Lanning, the owner of the tourist destination near Cripple Creek, ordering him to stop all tours and restrict all public access to the mine except to local law enforcement and other government agencies, according to a Thursday news release. One mine employee, 46-year-old tour guide and Victor resident Patrick Weier, was killed on Oct.

A Montrose County man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in a decades-old Colorado cold case, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday. Dan Bishop, a 68-year-old man from Naturita, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in the 1999 disappearance of then-42-year-old Dale Williams, CBI officials said in a Thursday news release. At the time of his disappearance, 25 years ago, Williams owned an auto body repair shop in Nucla.

Colorado taxpayers could receive state refunds of up to $1,130 when they file taxes in 2025, depending on their filing status and gross income, state officials said. According to the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Taxation Division, single-filing taxpayers could receive between $177 and $565 in tax refunds under Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, and joint-filing taxpayers could receive between $354 and $1,130, depending on their gross income bracket. TABOR is a constitutional amendment that caps the state budget and requires tax revenues collected above that to be refunded to taxpayers.