Charges dropped against Coyotes minority owner

Domestic violence charges "have been dropped" against Coyotes minority owner Andrew Barroway, who had been arrested after a dispute with his wife in Colorado last spring. Barroway issued a statement yesterday saying the district attorney's office in Pitkin County, Colo., "had decided to dismiss the case against him." Barroway: "The past several months have been extremely difficult for my loved ones and for me personally. As you can imagine, seeing a private personal matter wrongly depicted in the media was hurtful and frustrating. Now that this matter has concluded, I can directly say that the allegations against me were false." The NHL suspended Barroway indefinitely on March 23 after police said a verbal altercation between him and his wife "had turned physical" (ESPN.com, 9/5).