• Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – formerly Prince Andrew – appears to be getting his reckoning, albeit Al Capone-style. Caught up deeply in the Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking and rape scandal, British authorities have finally arrested Mountbatten-Windsor … for sharing confidential trade paperwork with Epstein.
• If you have a lunch scheduled with your prospect at Palantir next week, you might want to reconfirm it. The company slinked out of town this week like they were the Baltimore Colts.
• Colorado is the modern-day equivalent of the Wild West. You want drugs? We were the first state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana. Psychedelic mushrooms, you say? Legalized those, too. Gambling? Feel free to head to Black Hawk or Central City. Guns? We’re an open carry state – no permit needed unless you are one of those dandies who wants to conceal it. So what’s left? Why, prostitution, of course. Fear not – the Colorado legislature is on it.
• It is not uncommon for accidents to occur in rural areas of I-25 and I-70 during blowing snow whiteouts in the winter. But brownouts? Extraordinarily dry conditions, dirt-covered fields and high winds combined to cause a February brownout south of Pueblo that resulted in a 30-car pileup. Five people were killed and nearly 30 more were injured.
• Washington, D.C., is at risk of becoming a cesspool. Literally.
• Anderson Cooper is the latest journalist to leave “60 Minutes” following Bari Weiss‘ appointment as editor in chief of CBS News. Pretty soon, there will only be enough journalists on staff to create “30 Minutes.”
• Eight people died in an avalanche in the Lake Tahoe backcountry. Six of the eight were mothers who bonded over their love of the outdoors and two were sisters.
• Actor Eric Dane, best known for roles in “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria,” passed away at the age of 53. He had been diagnosed with ALS a year ago.
• The high price of cocoa has caused Reese’s to shift from milk chocolate to a chocolate-flavored coating that can’t legally be referred to as milk chocolate. Reese’s is now the Cheez Whiz of chocolate.
• A pickleball dispute over the legality of a winning shot escalated into an argument, then a fistfight, then a 20-person brawl and finally felony charges. Yes, the incident took place in Florida.
• A Wisconsin man who may have just earned honorary Florida citizenship faces multiple charges after he allegedly stole an ambulance that had a patient inside and then led police on a high-speed chase.
• A judge ruled in favor of Buffalo Wild Wings in a $10 million lawsuit that accused the restaurant of fraud because the boneless chicken wings it serves don’t actually come from the wings of chickens.

Who won the week?

• Colorado ski resorts are celebrating the massive snow storm that delivered as much as 44 inches over the past week.
• Mumford & Sons announced it will perform a June show at Folsom Field in Boulder.
• Mikaela Shiffrin is unquestionably the greatest ski racer in the world, but she hasn’t always shown that in the Olympics. This week, she broke an eight-year Olympic medal drought with gold in the slalom event.
• Every Olympics has its breakout stars: snowboarder Shaun White in 2006, swimmer Michael Phelps and sprinter Usain Bolt in 2008, swimmer Katie Ledecky in 2012, gymnast Simone Biles in 2016 and snowboarder Chloe Kim in 2022, for example. So who is the breakout star of the 2026 Winter Olympics? The drones.