• A climber had to be rescued a second time while attempting to summit Mt. Fuji after he went back up to retrieve the cell phone he dropped during the first rescue.
• Denver Broncos Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway was driving the golf cart from which his business partner and former agent fell and died.
• The U.S. Navy lost a $60 million F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier when the ship took evasive maneuvers to avoid fire from Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.
• Statisticians will tell you that buying lottery tickets is about the dumbest thing you can do. Turns out, stealing lottery tickets is even dumber. Authorities in Colorado arrested four people this week for stealing $150,000 in scratchers from various gas stations and convenience stores across the state.
• Colorado Public Radio and Rocky Mountain PBS are among local stations that could be affected by President Donald Trump‘s executive order to end federal funding to PBS and NPR.
• The NFL fined the Atlanta Falcons $250,000 and Jeff Ulbrich, the team’s defensive coordinator, an additional $100,000 after Ulbrich’s son made a cruel prank phone call to University of Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders during the NFL’s draft. Ulbrich’s son took Sanders’ confidential phone number from a team-issued iPad that his father left unlocked.
• Three months after hiring him, Kohl’s fired its CEO following an investigation that found he inappropriately steered business to a person with whom he had a personal and undisclosed relationship.
• UPS announced it will lay off 20,000 people as it revises its business strategy in part due to Trump administration tariffs.
• Meanwhile, the U.S. economy shrank in Q1 for the first time in 11 quarters. And the threat of tariffs has accelerated imports to the U.S., exacerbating rather than improving the trade imbalance that has frustrated President Donald Trump.
• What should have been a puff-piece interview on the “CBS Sunday Mornings” show to promote his new book turned into a firestorm of concern and criticism for former New England Patriots and current University of North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick. At the heart of it: the 73-year-old coach’s controlling 24-year-old girlfriend.
• Carnival Cruises has placed two dozen people on its “Do Not Sail” list after a massive brawl broke out on one of its ships docked in Galveston, Texas.
• A runaway kangaroo caused a two-car accident on an Alabama highway.
• The Catholic Church has a history of polarizing the public, what with the sexual abuse and refusal to let women run the show, just to name a couple of hot-button issues. And don’t even get me started on the Crusades. Now, it has done it again. Designers are aghast at the kerning on Pope Francis’ tombstone.
• Nike is apologizing for a slogan it used at the recent London Marathon. Nike used the phrase “never again” in the campaign, which included the slogans: “never again … until next year” and “never again, see you next year.” Unfortunately, “Never again” is a slogan most closely associated with Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the marathon took place just a week after this year’s remembrance.
• Singer and Denver native Jill Sobule was scheduled to perform this evening at Swallow Hill, but she died yesterday in a house fire. She was 66 years old.

Who won the week?

• The Denver School Board voted to extend Superintendent Alex Marrero’s contract by another two years, a move that makes it harder for board members elected in the fall to remove him.
• Denver sports fans get a rare game-seven doubleheader tomorrow when both the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets will play series-deciding games. The only downside? The games will be played at the same time.
• “60 Minutes” reminded everyone why it has been the most-respected television news program for decades when it closed last week’s show with an on-air rebuke of its Paramount corporate owners for trying to meddle with its content.