Rifle welcomed a new police chief in January. Debra Funston, a former Palisade chief of police, was sworn in and took over for former Rifle Police Chief Tommy Klein. Klein is now Rifle’s city manager..
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The roundabout at the Colorado Highway 13 exit off Interstate 70 in Rifle was partly blocked off to traffic for about an hour following a single-car crash Friday night.
Around 8:17 p.m., the driver of a 1997 Subaru Legacy station wagon was traveling eastbound on I-70 when he struck a road sign while heading toward an off-ramp, said Rifle Police Chief Tommy Klein.
Klein said the driver then circled the roundabout in the wrong direction before leaving the roadway.
A rolled over vehicle in Rifle on Friday night.
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The vehicle rolled over before coming to a complete stop.
The driver, who was the lone occupant of the vehicle, was taken by ambulance to the nearby Grand River Health hospital. His condition is currently unknown, Klein said.
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One of my favorite questions to ask those in the 2A community is “what made you become a gun owner?” Everybody’s story is different; some folks may have grown up in a gun-owning household, while others came to embrace their Second Amendment rights after they were the victim of a violent crime. Millions of Americans became gun owners for the first time last year, and each and every one of them had their own reasons for doing so.
For Lauren Boebert, the firebrand freshman congresswoman from western Colorado, it was an incident outside of her restaurant in Rifle, Colorado that made her start to think more about the right of armed self-defense.