Skier killed, two others injured in large Colorado avalanche

MARBLE, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado skier has been killed and two other people were injured after getting caught in a massive backcountry avalanche in western Colorado. The body of Joel Shute, 36, of Glenwood Springs was recovered Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Shute had been missing since Friday evening, when he was buried in an avalanche that swept 2,400 feet down a mountainside where the victims were backcountry touring southwest of the town of Marble, authorities said. The avalanche was two to three feet deep where it began and up...