Frank Rich: Dems, Not Gop, Standing In Way Of Gay Rights

The Alexander Mountain fire is now burning on more than 1,800 acres of national forest land west of Loveland with 0% containment, fire officials said Tuesday morning. Fire officials said they still don’t know what sparked the Monday morning blaze that forced evacuations for roughly 37 square miles of Larimer County and shut down U.

Which pool filter is best? There’s no greater pleasure during a summer heat wave than relaxing in the cool waters of your own pool. That is unless algae growth has your pool looking more like the Swamp Thing’s studio apartment than a suburban oasis. If your pool is being overtaken by green slime, then a new pool filter is probably in order.

Terrell Davis said he was banned from traveling on United Airlines for weeks after a flight attendant claimed the former Broncos running back hit him during beverage service. “Adding insult to injury, United not only had me removed from their flight in handcuffs, but placed me on their No Fly List after it was determined I did nothing wrong and was released,” Davis wrote in a Tuesday morning post on Instagram. United lifted the ban, which was put in place July 14, on Tuesday morning after Davis released his statement, the ex-Bronco’s attorney, Parker Stinar, said. In a statement released Tuesday morning, United Airlines confirmed Davis received the letter on July 14 — the day after the incident — but said his flight ban was rescinded a day later. “It was generated due to the report of the flight attendant — who is no longer employed by United,” airline officials said in the statement. Stinar said Davis made the original email public due to the lack of response from United. “Up until today, we had received no correspondence or communication indicating that the travel ban had been rescinded,” Stinar said.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U. S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80. Calley died on April 28, according to his Florida death record, which said he had been living in an apartment in Gainesville.

The Denver area will see near-record heat Tuesday as temperatures approach 100 degrees for the third time this summer, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures between 98 and 101 degrees are expected across Denver, the city’s metro suburbs, Fort Collins and Boulder, according to a NWS heat advisory. The advisory will be in effect from 11 a.m.

Sophia Smith is having a blast at the Olympics, and a lot of it has to do with the U. S. team’s formidable front three. Smith, along with Mallory Swanson and Trinity Rodman, are helping the United States reclaim its status as a team to be feared. “I feel like we’re clicking really well, really fast.