Sunday, December 8, 2013

@Denverheadlines 12/8

Today A 40 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 16. Light north northwest wind. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around -6. Calm wind.
Monday Sunny, with a high near 20. Wind chill values as low as -5. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
  • After four days in single digits, Denver is expected to see double-digit temperatures Sunday.
  • SWAT team members arrested a 47-year-old man wanted for attempted murder of a police officer after he allegedly barricaded himself in a Commerce City home and repeatedly fired shots at SWAT teams.
  • Woodland Park police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday outside of a residence in the city.
  • Deputies who stopped two vehicles traveling together in western Colorado say a search turned up about 85 pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $225,000
  • The boyfriend of a Boulder woman arrested last month on a felony charge of cruelty to animals turned himself in to police for the same crime Friday after police say he strangled a French bulldog puppy this summer that later died of its injuries.
  • Police shut down the Sports Authority store on Broadway Saturday afternoon while negotiating with a suicidal man.
  • Prosecutors are pursuing witness intimidation charges against a man accused of telling the mother of a Colorado Springs slaying victim: "You're next."
  • The few words that Mary Louise Lee spared at 10:30 a.m. Saturday were nearly inaudible. Having warmed up nearly three hours earlier singing to her husband, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, the accomplished vocalist was saving her voice for producers of "America's Got Talent."
  • Lawyers for the Aurora theater shooting gunman want to exclude the public from upcoming court hearings concerning his psychiatric evaluation.
  • Denver police believe a series of nighttime break-ins in the city's Lowry neighborhood is the work of just one brazen burglar who enters through unlocked doors while families are sleeping inside.
  • Colorado's plunge into the deep freeze, with overnight lows in the northern mountains dropping to minus 20 degrees for days in a row, likely is not cold enough or prolonged enough to disrupt the life cycle of the destructive pine beetle.

  • Those looking to buy recreational marijuana in Aspen on Jan. 1 won't find it. In fact, it could be weeks into the new year before the first shops begin selling recreationally.